Server Engineer Lead

Axelon Services Corporation; Menasha (WI); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Axelon Services Corporation in Menasha, WI is seeking a Senior Server Computing and Virtualization Engineer to join a hybrid work team.

You will lead architecture, lifecycle management, and operation of a large-scale VMware-based compute environment, drive automation with Ansible, Terraform, PowerCLI, and scripting, and collaborate with storage, networking, security, and apps teams to ensure uptime and performance.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in the field or related area.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, implementation, lifecycle, and operation of the large enterprise compute environment.
• Manage server hardware standards, platform design, firmware strategy, host lifecycle management, and infrastructure refresh planning.
• Oversee the health, performance, availability, and capacity of virtualization environments, including hypervisor hosts, management platforms, clusters, DR/configs.
• Design and maintain resilient compute and virtualization solutions that support mission-critical workloads with uptime focus.
• Partner with storage, networking, backup, security, and application teams to ensure end-to-end performance and reliability.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for complex server hardware and virtualization incidents, leading root-cause analysis and restoration.
• Architect and maintain automated workflows using Ansible, Terraform, PowerCLI, and scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python.
• Maintain and enhance platform visibility through enterprise monitoring tools like VMware Aria Operations and Grafana.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Project management

Requirements gathering

Planning

Tools

VMware vSphere

ESXi

vCenter

VMware Aria Operations

Ansible

Terraform

PowerCLI

PowerShell

Python

Grafana

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Job description

• Hours: Monday-Friday 8AM-4PM with on call
• Must be able to travel 10-15% of the time to local data centers

Pay Rate

$110K - $130K

Location

Menasha, WI

Work Mode

Hybrid

Summary

• Direct Hire
• Hours: Monday-Friday 8AM-4PM with on call
• Must be able to travel 10-15% of the time to local data centers

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, implementation, lifecycle management, and operational support of the company's large-scale enterprise compute environment, including server platforms and virtualization platforms based on VMware and other hypervisors.
• Manage server hardware standards, platform design, firmware strategy, host lifecycle management, and infrastructure refresh planning across the enterprise.
• Oversee the health, performance, availability, and capacity of virtualization environments, including hypervisor hosts, management platforms, clusters, distributed resource scheduling, and high availability configurations.
• Design and maintain resilient compute and virtualization solutions that support mission-critical enterprise workloads with a strong emphasis on uptime, recoverability, and operational consistency.
• Partner with storage, networking, backup, security, and application teams to ensure end-to-end performance and reliability of hosted workloads.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for complex server hardware and virtualization incidents, leading root-cause analysis and restoration efforts for critical platform issues.
• Architect and maintain automated workflows using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, PowerCLI, and scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python for provisioning, configuration management, patching, and compliance activities.
• Maintain and enhance platform visibility through enterprise monitoring, alerting, and performance analytics tools, including VMware Aria Operations, Grafana, and related ecosystem tooling, to support rapid issue detection and response.

Requirements

• Five or more years of experience in the field or in a related area.
• Must be a US citizen only-ITAR required.
• Strong communication, time management, problem solving, teamwork, leadership, mentoring, project management, business acumen, requirements gathering, planning.

Preferred Skills

• Experience: Minimum 7 years administering and architecting enterprise server infrastructure and virtualization environments at scale.
• Technical Expertise: Deep understanding of enterprise server hardware, VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, VMware Aria Operations, and comparable virtualization platforms.
• Automation: Proficiency with Ansible, Terraform, PowerCLI, and scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python for infrastructure automation and operational efficiency.
• Container Familiarity: Familiarity with container management platforms such as OpenShift, Kubernetes, or similar enterprise container ecosystems.

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