Senior Windows Server Engineer - High Availability Infra

CEI; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 72,000 - 102,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) match

Job summary

CEI is seeking a Senior Windows Server Engineer to architect and support a production Windows Server environment in a mission-critical trading setting. The role focuses on reliability, on‑call duty, patching, and high-availability infrastructure.

You will work with Windows Server 2012/2016/2019/2022, EMC storage, VMware, and clustering technologies to ensure performance and uptime. Chesterbrook, PA onsite position with 11‑month contract potential for extension or conversion.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required or equivalent experience.
• Strong Windows Server knowledge and enterprise services.
• Experience with clustering and high-availability environments.
• Experience with monitoring and capacity planning.
• Familiarity with SAN/storage and EMC SRDF.
• Experience with VMware vSphere and SRM.
• Strong networking basics.
• Excellent communication and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Architect and support a Windows Server production environment in a high-availability, performance-sensitive setting.
• Provide hands-on admin and on-call production support, including weekend work.
• Build and maintain Microsoft Failover Clusters including stretch cluster concepts.
• Monitor performance, plan capacity, and remediate using enterprise tools.
• Perform OS upgrades and patching per change management standards.
• Collaborate with application support teams to gather requirements and deploy solutions.
• Own incident resolution and maintain accurate system inventory.

Skills

Windows Server admin

Cluster tech

Perf monitoring

SAN storage

Virtualization

Networking basics

Documentation

On-call support

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

VMware vSphere

vCenter

SRM

EMC storage

Geneos

IIS

.NET

F5

Oracle/SQL

Job description

CEI is seeking a Senior Windows Server Engineer to architect and support a production Windows Server environment in a mission-critical trading setting. The role focuses on reliability, on‑call duty, patching, and high-availability infrastructure.

You will work with Windows Server 2012/2016/2019/2022, EMC storage, VMware, and clustering technologies to ensure performance and uptime. Chesterbrook, PA onsite position with 11‑month contract potential for extension or conversion.