System Engineer - Infrastructure

Infrastructure EngineerSeeking a contractor to provide the following services a skilled and motivated hardware infrastructure engineer to join our Enterprise IT team. In this hands-on role, you will be the primary owner of our physical compute, storage, and power infrastructure spanning a small/mediums sized data center and several local MDF/IDF spaces across our facilities. You will work closely with our networking team and report directly to the Senior IT Infrastructure Manager.This is a critical role for a self-starter who is comfortable owning infrastructure end-to-end: from racking servers and configuring VMware environments to managing backup operations, monitoring environmental conditions, and ensuring environmental continuity across all sites.Responsibilities:Maintain and operate a medium-sized private data center, including rack management, cabling, and capacity planningSupport and manage multiple local MDF (Main Distribution Frame) and IDF (Intermediate Distribution Frame) spaces across company locationsPerform regular site walkthroughs and inspections to ensure physical infrastructure integrityCoordinate with facilities and site management teams on space, power, and cooling requirementsManage UPS systems and PDUs (Power Distribution Units) across the data center and MDF/IDF locationsMonitor UPS health, battery status, load levels, and runtime; coordinate battery replacements and preventive maintenanceRespond to power alarms, perform load balancing, and support planned maintenance windows involving power systemsMaintain documentation of power circuits, load maps, and single-line diagramsMonitor data center and MDF/IDF environmental conditions including temperature, humidity, and airflowRespond to environmental alerts and escalate to facilities or management as appropriateDeploy, configure, and maintain VMware vSphere/ESXi environments including vCenter managementManage physical server hardware lifecycle: procurement support, racking, cabling, firmware updates, and decommissioningMonitor host performance, resource utilization, and capacity; proactively address bottlenecksTrouble shoot hardware failures including CPUs, memory, storage controllers, NICs, and drive arraysCoordinate with vendors (Primarily HPE) on hardware support and RMA processesAdminister SAN, NAS, local storage solutions and cloud archives; manage volumes, datastores, and provisioningMonitor storage health, performance, capacity and plan and execute expansions as neededManage storage replication and snapshots in coordination with retention policy and backup strategyPartner closely with the networking team on rack and cabling coordination, infrastructure changes, and joint projectsSupport change management processes including maintenance windows, change tickets, and post-implementation reviewsContribute to IT documentation including runbooks, asset inventories, and infrastructure diagramsParticipate in on-call rotation for after-hours infrastructure emergenciesAdminister enterprise backup solutions for servers, VMs and Microsoft Office365/Azure assetsSchedule, monitor, and validate backup jobs; ensure recovery objectives (RTO/RPO) are consistently metPerform and document restore tests on a regular cadence per policy