Platform Engineer

About the Opportunity

A well-established national manufacturer is growing its infrastructure team. After several acquisitions, the company’s server footprint has roughly doubled, and it needs a hands-on engineer to help bring a mix of inherited environments under one standard. This is a working engineer role, not a management or pure architecture seat. You’ll build, fix, and improve the systems yourself.

What You’ll Do

• Run and maintain core Windows and Linux services: Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, file and print
• Support on-prem, virtualized, and cloud environments end to end: builds, patching, upgrades, monitoring, security, and cost control
• Manage AWS resources across compute, storage, databases, monitoring, and security
• Maintain and harden VMware environments, including troubleshooting and performance tuning
• Automate repeatable work with PowerShell, Python, Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools
• Build scripts, reports, and integrations that cut manual effort
• Own backup, recovery, and DR testing for assigned systems, aligned to RTO/RPO targets
• Write and maintain runbooks, standards, and technical documentation
• Assess legacy systems, plan consolidations and migrations, and help decommission what’s no longer needed
• Give input on lifecycle planning, hardware refreshes, and infrastructure budgets
• Work within ITIL change, incident, and problem processes
• Partner with vendors, security, network, and application teams on projects and issues
• Take part in a light on-call rotation and occasional after-hours maintenance windows

What You Bring

• 5+ years in server administration, infrastructure engineering, or cloud engineering (server side, not desktop or endpoint)
• Solid hands-on Windows Server and Linux experience in multi-site environments
• Experience running VMware or a comparable virtualization platform
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or another public cloud
• Scripting or automation skills in PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar
• Working knowledge of patching, monitoring, backup, DR, hardening, and lifecycle management
• Comfort pushing back on requirements and proposing better solutions
• Clear communication and strong documentation habits
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience

Nice to Have

• Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Puppet, SaltStack, or other IaC and config management tools
• Hybrid environments spanning on-prem and cloud
• Azure, Nutanix, or AIX exposure
• Cloud migration or platform consolidation projects
• Certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect or SysOps, Azure Administrator, VMware VCP, or Red Hat