Digital Technology Server Engineer Lead

About the role

The Server Engineer - Lead is essential to ensuring the stability, performance, and evolution of Oshkosh's enterprise compute and virtualization ecosystem. This role combines deep server expertise with strong knowledge of VMware, VMware Aria Operations, and other hypervisors, along with operational leadership and automation discipline.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, lifecycle manage, and support Oshkosh's large-scale enterprise compute environment, including Intel-based server platforms and virtualization platforms based on VMware and other hypervisors.

• Manage server hardware standards, platform design, firmware strategy, host lifecycle management, and infrastructure refresh planning across the enterprise.

• Oversee the health, performance, availability, and capacity of virtualization environments, including hypervisor hosts, management platforms, clusters, distributed resource scheduling, and high availability configurations.

• Design and maintain resilient compute and virtualization solutions that support mission-critical enterprise workloads with strong emphasis on uptime, recoverability, and operational consistency.

• Partner with storage, networking, backup, security, and application teams to ensure end-to-end performance and reliability of hosted workloads.

• Establish and maintain operational standards for provisioning, patching, upgrades, host remediation, and configuration consistency across the compute estate.

• Drive proactive management of system health, resource utilization, hardware events, performance bottlenecks, and operational risks across the compute environment.

• Lead capacity planning and performance optimization efforts for compute, memory, clustering, and virtualization resources to support current and future business demand.

• Ensure enterprise operational readiness for maintenance events, lifecycle transitions, incident response, and business continuity requirements.

• Architect and maintain automated workflows using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, PowerCLI, and scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python for provisioning, configuration management, patching, and compliance activities.

• Maintain deep expertise in Vmware, as well as other hypervisors and technologies that make up Oshkosh's enterprise compute portfolio.

• Collaborate with platform, cloud, and application teams to support evolving infrastructure patterns, including integration with private cloud and container-hosting platforms where virtual infrastructure is foundational.

• Provide technical leadership on modernization opportunities that improve efficiency, scalability, recoverability, and operational simplicity across the enterprise compute platform.

• Maintain platform visibility through enterprise monitoring, alerting, and performance analytics tools, including VMware Aria Operations, Grafana, and related ecosystem tooling, to support rapid issue detection and response.

• Partner with enterprise monitoring and operations teams to improve actionable insight across the compute and virtualization landscape.

• Serve as a subject matter expert and technical leader for enterprise server hardware and virtualization technologies.

• Mentor junior engineers and help establish best practices for compute operations, virtualization engineering, automation, lifecycle management, and operational monitoring.

• Contribute to strategic planning, roadmaps, standards development, and investment recommendations for enterprise compute and virtualization services.

Requirements

Five (5) or more years of experience in the field or in a related area. Monitoring, troubleshooting, customer service, problem solving, cross team collaboration, risk analysis, analytical, operating systems, hardware, infrastructure design, scripting. Strong communication, time management, problem solving, teamwork, leadership, mentoring, project management, business acumen, requirements gathering, planning.

Standout Qualifications

• Seven (7) or more years administering and architecting enterprise server infrastructure and virtualization environments at scale.

• Deep understanding of Intel-based enterprise server hardware, VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, VMware Aria Operations, and comparable virtualization platforms, including clustering, virtualization performance tuning, and infrastructure lifecycle management.

• Strong experience managing large virtualized environments supporting mission-critical enterprise applications in a highly available and regulated setting.

• Proficiency with Ansible, Terraform, PowerCLI, and scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python for infrastructure automation and operational efficiency.

• Experience with firmware baselines, hardware compatibility, server provisioning, vendor interoperability, and compute platform refresh strategy.

• Strong understanding of integration points across compute, storage, networking, backup, disaster recovery, identity, monitoring, and container platforms.

• Familiarity with container management platforms and how virtual infrastructure supports solutions such as OpenShift, Kubernetes, or similar enterprise container ecosystems.

• Working familiarity with public cloud compute services and adjacent infrastructure patterns in Azure, AWS, or similar environments, with understanding of how they complement enterprise data center operations.

• Experience with enterprise monitoring, alerting, and operational visibility platforms used to manage compute and virtualization health and performance, including VMware Aria Operations or similar platforms.

• Demonstrated ability to lead complex infrastructure initiatives, mentor technical staff, and drive cross-functional operational improvements.

• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills with a focus on platform stability, scalability, and continuous improvement.