IT Systems Engineer

Job Title: IT Systems Engineer
Location: Bellevue, WA
Type: Contract (year) typically extends on a yearly basis
Compensation: $28.00-$52.00
Work Model: Onsite - onsite
Hours: 40.0
Paid Holidays | PTO


System One is seeking an IT Systems Engineer to provide the following services. A skilled and motivated hardware infrastructure engineer to join our client's 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 (Bellevue and Everett).

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.

Tasks

• Maintain and operate a medium-sized private data center, including rack management, cabling, and capacity planning

• Support and manage multiple local MDF (Main Distribution Frame) and IDF (Intermediate Distribution Frame) spaces across company locations (9 in Puget Sound region)

• Perform regular site walkthroughs and inspections to ensure physical infrastructure integrity

• Coordinate with facilities and site management teams on space, power, and cooling requirements

• Manage UPS systems and PDUs (Power Distribution Units) across the data center and MDF/IDF locations

• Monitor UPS health, battery status, load levels, and runtime; coordinate battery replacements and preventive maintenance

• Respond to power alarms, perform load balancing, and support planned maintenance windows involving power systems

• Maintain documentation of power circuits, load maps, and single-line diagrams

• Monitor data center and MDF/IDF environmental conditions including temperature, humidity, and airflow

• Respond to environmental alerts and escalate to facilities or management as appropriate

• Deploy, configure, and maintain VMware vSphere/ESXi environments including vCenter management

• Manage physical server hardware lifecycle: procurement support, racking, cabling, firmware updates, and decommissioning

• Monitor host performance, resource utilization, and capacity; proactively address bottlenecks

• Trouble shoot hardware failures including CPUs, memory, storage controllers, NICs, and drive arrays

• Coordinate with vendors (Primarily HPE) on hardware support and RMA processes

• Administer SAN, NAS, local storage solutions and cloud archives; manage volumes, datastores, and provisioning

• Monitor storage health, performance, capacity and plan and execute expansions as needed

• Manage storage replication and snapshots in coordination with retention policy and backup strategy

• Partner closely with the networking team on rack and cabling coordination, infrastructure changes, and joint projects

• Support change management processes including maintenance windows, change tickets, and post-implementation reviews

• Contribute to IT documentation including runbooks, asset inventories, and infrastructure diagrams

• Participate in on-call rotation for after-hours infrastructure emergencies

• Administer enterprise backup solutions for servers, VMs and Microsoft Office365/Azure assets

• Schedule, monitor, and validate backup jobs; ensure recovery objectives (RTO/RPO) are consistently met

• Perform and document restore tests on a regular cadence per policy

Key Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree, or equivalent work experience

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in a data center or enterprise infrastructure role

• Proficiency with VMware vSphere/ESXi and vCenter administration

• Experience managing physical server hardware from major vendors (HPE preferred)

• Working knowledge of SAN/NAS storage platforms and concepts (iSCSI, NFS, FC)

• Experience administering enterprise backup solutions and validating recovery procedures

• Hands-on experience with APC UPS systems or similar enterprise UPS platforms

• Familiarity with PDU management and power capacity planning

• Comfort working in data center environments including structured cabling, rack management, and physical hardware installation

• Strong troubleshooting skills with an ability to diagnose and resolve complex hardware and infrastructure issues

• Ability to lift and rack equipment up to 50 lbs. and work in physically demanding data center environments

• Ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues quickly, while leveraging IT change management processes

• VMware VCP (vSphere) certification or equivalent experience

• APC/Schneider Electric product certifications or formal training

• Experience with environmental monitoring tools (Sunbird, or similar)

• Exposure to DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) tools

• Familiarity with ITIL practices and formal change management processes

• Experience in a multi-site or campus environment

• Scripting or automation skills (Ansible, PowerShell, Bash) for infrastructure tasks

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical users

• Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail

• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

• Experience partnering cross-functionally with networking, application and cloud technical teams

• Customer service orientation with a problem-solving mindset

• Strong communication skills desired. The service provider will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect, and a desire to foster teamwork.

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