Systems Engineer

Altus Consulting; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Altus Consulting seeks a Systems Engineer with 11+ years of experience to support advanced hosting platforms. The role emphasizes Hyper-V, server hardware management, and enterprise cloud/on-prem solutions across constrained networks.

You will automate builds, work within an agile DevOps context, and use tools like Jenkins, GitHub, Ansible, and PowerShell to deploy and manage infrastructure. Strong communication and after-hours support are required.

Qualifications

• Minimum 11 years of Systems Engineer experience.
• Demonstrated on-the-job Hyper-V hypervisor experience.
• Experience with managing physical hardware (HPE, Nutanix).
• Experience with enterprise cloud and on-prem hosting platforms in constrained networks.
• Experience with automating platform builds and configurations over the network.

Responsibilities

• Provide operations and maintenance support for DCS hosting platform solutions.
• Perform root cause analysis of system performance and operational issues.
• Patch and reboot management across hosting environments.
• Monitor system performance metrics and identify areas for improvement.
• Deliver after-hours engineering support and communicate with technical and nontechnical audiences.

Skills

Hyper-V

Physical hardware

Enterprise cloud

Automation

DevOps tools

Jenkins

GitHub

Ansible

PowerShell

VMware

Nutanix

NetApp

Configuration management

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub

Ansible

PowerShell

VMware

Acropolis

Nutanix

NetApp

Job description

We are actively seeking Systems Engineers with a minimum of eleven (11) years' experience.

• Demonstrate on the Job experience with Hyper V Hypervisor Experience with managing physical hardware (HPE, Nutanix) Demonstrate on the job experience with enterprise cloud and on prem hosting platforms across network constrained environments.

• Demonstrate on the job experience with enabling and implementing full automation of platforms builds and configurations over the wire.

• Ability to work in a high profile fast-paced environment.
• Ability to test and deploy custom infrastructure as code using carious DevOps tools such as Jenkins GitHub Ansible, PowerShell. Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Provide operations and maintenance support to the DCS hosting platform solutions.
• Conduct root cause analysis of noted system performance an operational issue.
• Experience with patching and routine platform reboots across the hosting environment. Monitor the performance systems to analyze the metrics produced to identify areas of improvements and report potential anomalies.
• Emergency after hours engineering support as needed. Communicate to both technical and nontechnical audiences.

Core hours 0930-1430

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills:

• Experience with other hyper visors to include VMware and Acropolis.
• Proficiency with configuration management tools. Expert understanding of Dev Ops practices and ability to engineer within an agile framework.
• Demonstrate experience with documenting concepts of operations and standards of practice for tiered maintenance support.
• Demonstrate experience with Nutanix applications and concepts such as Nutanix flow, Prism Central, or general VM hosting Significant experience preparing technical documentation requirements and design for complex systems Experience with Hyper Converged infrastructure and/or software defined data center technologies.
• Familiarity with storage technologies such as NetApp.