Senior Systems Engineer

*Description*
Our client is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join their Infrastructure team within the Server and Storage domain. This is a hands-on Senior role supporting a critical VMware to Hyper-V migration initiative while also providing ongoing operational support across the virtualization environment.
The team is small and collaborative, which means this person will have broad exposure across technologies and will not be siloed into a single function. They will work alongside two other onsite engineers and will also provide direction and mentoring to an offshore India-based team for day-to-day operational tasks.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Own the Hyper-V environment: manage, operate, and expand the Hyper-V platform using System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) as the control plane
- Lead and execute the VMware to Hyper-V migration for 50% of our clients workloads
- Manage HPE Synergy Blade infrastructure and HPE Storage: understand how the full solution stack integrates and correlates
- Handle day-to-day operational support including ticket resolution, VM resource management (CPU, memory, storage volumes), and change window activities
- Support new application onboarding, review application infrastructure requirements, determine VM needs, and provision accordingly
- Design and implement high availability and resiliency patterns aligned to SLO/SLA objectives
- Lead Windows Server lifecycle management including standard images, patch governance, and technical debt reduction
- Establish observability standards, performance baselines, and proactive monitoring using automation and runbooks
- Drive ITSM excellence including major incident management, root cause analysis, problem management, and change governance
- Manage capacity forecasting and optimization across compute, storage, and network
- Define and manage backup, restore, and disaster recovery readiness, execute DR tests and close identified gaps
- Enforce security hardening, vulnerability remediation, and audit compliance for the virtualization stack
- Delegate tasks to and mentor offshore India-based junior engineers, provide clear direction, documentation, and knowledge transfer
- Contribute automation ideas and proof of concepts to the platform engineering team, PowerShell and Ansible are the primary tools in use
- Participate in daily standup and open collaboration forums, recommendations and process improvement ideas are actively encouraged
Qualifications:
Required:
- Minimum 6 years of experience in Windows/Intel systems administration
- Strong hands-on Hyper-V experience in an enterprise environment
- Deep Windows Server clustering experience - this is a hard requirement
- Working knowledge of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
- HPE Synergy Blade and HPE Storage experience
- Strong VMware administration background
- PowerShell scripting proficiency
- Broad infrastructure experience across server, storage, and compute
- Minimum 1 year in an informal leadership or Senior technical role
Nice to have:
- Ansible experience: used for automation delivery wrapped with PowerShell
- Python scripting
- Linux experience, Red Hat or SUSE preferred, training available for candidates with baseline knowledge
- Kubernetes or container awareness, large container presence on the team, exposure opportunity available
- Active Directory experience
- ServiceNow familiarity for incident and service request management
- Experience writing documentation and SOPs, important given offshore team coordination
- Experience working in large matrixed organizations
- Experience working with IT vendors and offshore teams
Nice to have Certifications:
- Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
- Red Hat Certification
- SUSE Certified Linux Administrator
- IBM Certified Specialist
*Job Type & Location*This is a Contract position based out of Pleasanton, CA.
*Pay and Benefits*The pay range for this position is $75.00 - $91.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:

* Medical, dental & vision


* Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital


* 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available


* Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)


* Short and long-term disability


* Health Spending Account (HSA)


* Transportation benefits


* Employee Assistance Program


* Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
*Workplace Type*This is a hybrid position in Pleasanton,CA.
*Application Deadline*This position is anticipated to close on Jul 1, 2026.

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We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

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