Linux Server Migration Engineer

Role: Linux Server Migration Engineer

Location: Salt Lake City, UT (Onsite)

Type: Contract

Day to Day Job Duties:

• Own and engineer the Linux compute platform during large-scale server and data center migration initiatives, ensuring platform stability, security, availability, and performance throughout all phases of migration.
• Plan, coordinate, and execute end-to-end server migrations from source data centers to target environments, including physical servers, VMware ESXi hosts, and virtual machines.
• Manage and migrate VMware ESXi and vSphere environments, including VM provisioning, host configuration, vMotion, Storage vMotion, DRS, HA, and cold migration activities.
• Execute physical-to-virtual (P2V), virtual-to-virtual (V2V), and site-to-site migration activities while minimizing business and service disruption.
• Configure, troubleshoot, and migrate iSCSI storage environments, including connectivity, multipathing, CHAP authentication, storage-path validation, and performance troubleshooting.
• Manage Logical Volume Manager (LVM) configurations during migration activities, including volume-group export and import, logical-volume resizing, snapshots, migration activities, and filesystem-integrity validation.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance automation scripts and tooling to streamline migration activities, infrastructure administration, validation, and repeatable operational workflows.
• Develop and execute detailed migration runbooks, implementation procedures, rollback plans, validation checklists, and post-migration verification activities.
• Collaborate with internal clients, infrastructure teams, application teams, storage teams, network teams, and partner engineering teams to assess migration readiness and resolve technical dependencies.
• Troubleshoot complex Linux, virtualization, storage, networking, and application infrastructure issues during migration and post-migration stabilization.
• Develop technical solutions and improvements to enhance infrastructure reliability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Manage and optimize virtualization and containerized infrastructure environments using VMware, OpenShift CNV, Kubernetes, and related technologies.
• Contribute to integration and support of modern infrastructure platforms including Kubernetes, OpenShift, and OpenStack.
• Participate in the development and implementation of CI/CD pipelines supporting infrastructure automation and deployment activities.
• Use Bash, Python, and other scripting technologies to automate infrastructure provisioning, migration, validation, and operational tasks.
• Monitor infrastructure performance and system health and implement proactive tuning and optimization as required.
• Support networking activities involving TCP/IP, VLANs, routing, firewalls, and connectivity troubleshooting.
• Ensure infrastructure engineering and migration activities comply with applicable security standards, controls, and organizational requirements.
• Participate in change, implementation, validation, and production-support activities associated with infrastructure migration initiatives.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 4+ years of experience supporting large-scale data center or server migration initiatives, including P2V, V2V, and/or site-to-site migrations.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience working with Linux-based compute environments, including Linux operating-system administration and OS internals.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience with VMware ESXi and vSphere, including host builds, VM provisioning, vMotion, Storage vMotion, DRS, and HA.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience working with iSCSI storage networking, including connectivity, multipathing, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience with Logical Volume Manager (LVM), including volume management, snapshots, resizing, export/import activities, and migration.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience with networking concepts including TCP/IP, VLANs, routing, firewalls, and network troubleshooting.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience working with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Docker.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience with CI/CD and development tools such as Git, Maven, and Jenkins.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience using scripting languages such as Bash and Python for infrastructure automation, administration, and troubleshooting.
• Experience developing and executing server migration runbooks, implementation plans, rollback procedures, and validation checklists.
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues involving Linux, virtualization, storage, networking, and application dependencies.
• Experience collaborating with infrastructure, engineering, application, network, storage, and other cross-functional technical teams.
• Experience monitoring and optimizing Linux and virtualization platforms for reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Understanding of infrastructure security practices and compliance requirements.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

Nice to Have: (But not a must)

• Experience with additional scripting or programming languages such as Python, Node.js, Perl, or Go.
• Experience developing or integrating REST APIs.
• Experience with migration technologies such as VMware vCenter Converter, Zerto, or Veeam.
• Experience working with relational and NoSQL database platforms.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Familiarity with security technologies and practices including encryption, OAuth, and LDAP.
• Experience with infrastructure configuration-management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK Stack.
• Experience with OpenStack and OpenShift CNV.
• Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and problem-resolution capabilities.