Senior Storage & VMware Infra Engineer — Hybrid | ESOP

KellyMitchell Group; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance

Employee-Owned ESOP 401K

Job summary

KellyMitchell Group is seeking a Senior Storage and Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate enterprise storage, data protection, virtualization, and server infrastructure in a hybrid Denver environment. You will focus on automation, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and continuous improvement of infrastructure operations.

The role requires hands-on experience with Dell PowerMax/PowerScale, Pure Storage, Rubrik, Cohesity, Veritas NetBackup, and VMware Cloud Foundation, along

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, and/or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years supporting enterprise storage, systems, or site reliability environments, including block, file, and object storage platforms.
• 5+ years designing and operating VMware virtualization environments, including VCF and vSphere on Dell and Cisco server infrastructure.
• Strong background with enterprise storage technologies, including Dell PowerMax, Dell PowerScale/Isilon, and Pure Storage.
• Expertise with enterprise data protection platforms such as Rubrik, Cohesity and Veritas NetBackup.
• Hands-on knowledge of NFS and S3/object storage solutions, including platforms such as MinIO or Pure FlashBlade.
• Proven proficiency in infrastructure automation, using Ansible/AWX/AAP or Terraform.
• Extensive knowledge of monitoring, logging, and alerting technologies, including Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk.
• Advanced scripting and development skills using Python and/or Bash.
• Working knowledge of SAN fabrics, IP networking, Kubernetes, Git, Linux and Windows administration, and data center operations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure block, file/NFS, and object storage infrastructure.
• Design, deploy, and operate VMware Cloud Foundation, including lifecycle management, upgrades, and capacity.
• Deploy and maintain Dell and Cisco server infrastructure, including firmware management and hardware refreshes.
• Plan and execute storage, backup, and virtualization upgrades and migrations while minimizing service disruption.
• Monitor infrastructure health, performance, and capacity using Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, and Splunk.
• Engineer and support enterprise data protection platforms such as Rubrik, Cohesity, and Veritas NetBackup.
• Manage replication and snapshot technologies to support defined RPO and RTO objectives.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle activities using Ansible/AWX/AAP, Python, Bash, NetBox, and MAAS.
• Conduct performance testing, capacity planning, and forecasting for storage and compute environments.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery and cyber-recovery plans while validating recoverability.
• Support incident, problem, and change management processes and participate in on-call support.
• Maintain security and isolation of data resilience and recovery environments, including data-diode workflows.
• Develop and maintain runbooks, architectural documentation, and technical standards.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership across infrastructure initiatives.

Skills

Storage architecture

VMware virtualization

Data protection

NFS/Obj storage

Automation

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Linux/Windows admin

Monitoring & metrics

Disaster recovery

Networking basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Dell PowerMax

Dell PowerScale/Isilon

Pure Storage

MinIO

Rubrik

Cohesity

Veritas NetBackup

Zabbix

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Ansible/AWX/AAP

Terraform

NetBox

MAAS

VMware Cloud Foundation

Job description

KellyMitchell Group is seeking a Senior Storage and Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate enterprise storage, data protection, virtualization, and server infrastructure in a hybrid Denver environment. You will focus on automation, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and continuous improvement of infrastructure operations.

The role requires hands-on experience with Dell PowerMax/PowerScale, Pure Storage, Rubrik, Cohesity, Veritas NetBackup, and VMware Cloud Foundation, along