Senior Systems Engineer
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Senior IT Systems Engineer – VMware
The Hartford
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Columbus • Connecticut, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $115,760 - $173,640 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AnsiblePythonTerraformVMware
About the role
- Design, deploy, and manage Virtual Server Clusters (Nutanix) across enterprise environments.
- Lead migration efforts from VMware to Nutanix, ensuring minimal disruption and optimal performance.
- Monitor and forecast infrastructure capacity needs.
- Build and maintain automation scripts and frameworks (e.g., using Terraform/Ansible) to streamline infrastructure provisioning, patching, and monitoring.
- Build and manage a team responsible for 24x7 operations including software patching, technology currency, and vulnerability management.
- Leverage enterprise observability toolsets to automate detection of performance issues and monitor the overall health of the compute environment.
- Support internal and external audits by developing and maintaining CIS benchmarks.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in IT infrastructure engineering, with at least 3 years focused on Virtual Server environments like VMware or Nutanix.
- Intermediate working knowledge and skillsets in automation tools and scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform).
- Expert/mastery level comfort in working in a large-scale enterprise supporting environments with 10,000+ servers.
- Intermediate troubleshooting skills to solve technical problems, guide junior teammates, and partner with US based engineering leads and management.
- Candidate must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Short-term or annual bonuses
- Long-term incentives
- On-the-spot recognition
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Virtual Server ClustersNutanixVMwareautomation scriptsTerraformAnsiblePythonPowerShellinfrastructure capacity managementCIS benchmarks
Soft skills
leadershiptroubleshootingteam managementcommunicationcollaboration
