Senior Engineer, Modern Platforms Data Center (USA Remote: Preferred TN, NC, FL state)

Description

Presidio, Where Teamwork and Innovation Shape the Future
At Presidio, we're at the forefront of a global technology revolution, transforming industries through cutting-edge digital solutions and next-generation AI. We empower businesses - and their internal customers - to achieve more through innovation, automation, and intelligent insights.

The Role
We're looking for a Senior Data Center Engineer to join our talented delivery team! The Senior Engineer will be expected to deliver projects nationally, while striving to ensure executional excellence by creating supreme customer experiences for all assigned projects. The Senior Engineer combines technical ability and experience with polished communication skills to deploy a variety of solutions that could focus on traditional, hyper-converged, or hybrid data center solutions. This position reports to the Director of Data Center and Data Protection services.

Responsibilities Include:

• Be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) throughout Data Center consulting engagements.
• Be a trusted advisor to internal and external clients and SMEs.
• Lead projects and the deployment of Data Center solutions for customers of all sizes and different design requirements.
• Leading conversations and technical white boarding sessions in front of clients and/or peers.
• Ability to excel both independently and with a cross-functional team of engineers on client projects and on-going professional services engagements.
• Ability to see a project through fruition from assignment to completion with minimal guidance.
• Maintain a billable target of at least 70%.
• Post implementation support and troubleshooting for clients on occasion.

• Technical writing skills to author professional documentation for client review.
• Peer review other engineer's documentation for completeness and accuracy.
• Ability to track, manage, and record time spent across numerous projects within the defined deadline(s).

• Ability to lift up to approximately 40 pounds.

Required Skills and Professional Experience:

• Minimum 8+ years of Data Center engineering experience, experience with professional services preferred.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work and/or military experience.
• Extensive experience in VMware vSphere up to and including VMware Cloud Foundation
• Experience with one or both of the following hypervisors:
  • Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix Acropolis
• Experience with some or all of the following storage platforms:
  • Dell, HPE, Net App, Everpure
• Experience with some or all of the following Hyper-Converged Infrastructure:
  • Cisco HyperFlex, VMware VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix
• Experience with some or all of the following Data Protection solutions:
  • Veeam, Rubrik, Dell, Cohesity, Commvault
• Technical certifications are strongly desired in VMware, Nutanix, Dell, and/or AWS.
• Strong work ethic and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks, prioritize work, and meet timelines in a fast-paced environment.
• Self-motivated and a desire to succeed.
• Relentless attention to detail.
• Must be a US Citizen.
• Ability to obtain Government Security Clearance.

Required Certifications:

• Must possess and maintain a current HPE Master ASE Certification throughout your tenure. It can be in either Storage or Compute.
• Must also be willing and able to contribute to the team's overall certification objectives and requirements, which are reviewed on a quarterly basis.

Preferred Skills and Professional Experience:

• Firm understanding of Data Center networking best practices & architecture.
• Experience with SAN Switching / Fabrics
  • Cisco MDS, Brocade, iSCSI
• Cloud - AWS, Azure, or Google
  • Migration Experience - migrating variety of workloads
  • Architecture recommendations
  • Analysis, sizing, and cost estimate a plus.
  • Developing maintenance processes - Automating cleanup, Resource group strategies
  • Deploying, configuring, and securing components - Storage accounts, Virtual machines, Backup vaults, Migrations, Web applications
  • Container runtime and orchestration - Kubernetes, Docker
  • Storage solutions - FSXn for ONTAP, Dell Apex File & Block
  • VMC on AWS
  • Azure VMware Solution (AVS)
• Data Protection & Backup
  • Veeam Backup & Availability Orchestrator
  • RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines (RP4VMs)
  • Zerto
• Experience with some scripting languages:
  • Python, Bash, PowerShell

Your future at Presidio
Joining Presidio means stepping into a culture of trailblazers - thinkers, builders, and collaborators - who push the boundaries of what's possible. With our expertise AI-driven analytics, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, and next-gen infrastructure, we enable businesses to stay ahead in an ever-evolving digital world.

Here, your impact is real. Whether you're harnessing the power of Generative AI, architecting resilient digital ecosystems, or driving data-driven transformation, you'll be part of a team that is shaping the future.

Ready to innovate? Let's redefine what's next-together.

About Presidio
Presidio is committed to hiring the most qualified candidates to join our amazing culture. We aim to attract and hire top talent from all backgrounds, including underrepresented and marginalized communities. We encourage women, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans to apply for open roles at Presidio. Diversity of skills and thought is a key component to our business success.

At Presidio, speed and quality meet technology and innovation. Presidio is a trusted ally for organizations across industries with a decades-long history of building traditional IT foundations and deep expertise in AI and automation, security, networking, digital transformation, and cloud computing. Presidio fills gaps, removes hurdles, optimizes costs, and reduces risk. Presidio's expert technical team develops custom applications, provides managed services, and enables actionable data insights and builds forward-thinking solutions that drive strategic outcomes for clients globally. For more information visit

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.

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