Senior Systems Engineer
On-siteAtlanta, Georgia, United States
Job Summary
Lead the design and execution of KVM/libvirt hypervisor deployments across US data centers while driving VMware-to-KVM/CloudStack workload migrations end-to-end. Administer CloudStack zones and templates, maintain Ansible playbooks for infrastructure provisioning, and build Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments. Troubleshoot complex hypervisor, networking, and storage performance issues, and serve as Tier 3 escalation for OS-level incidents on Linux and Windows platforms. Manage SAN/NAS environments including LUN provisioning and Pure Storage FlashArray operations, enforce PCI DSS v4.0 security baselines, and provide guidance to junior engineers. Participate in on-call rotation and document procedures in Confluence.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years in enterprise systems engineering or IT infrastructure, with demonstrated scope expansion over time
- 4+ years of production KVM/libvirt hypervisor management
- Strong Linux administration — RHEL/Rocky/CentOS or Debian-based at scale
- Windows Server administration — Active Directory, DNS/DHCP, GPO, and domain lifecycle
- Ansible — authoring and maintaining playbooks for multi-environment configuration management
- Jenkins or equivalent CI/CD pipeline experience for infrastructure automation
- Scripting proficiency in Bash and Python
- SAN storage administration — LUN management, zoning, multipath I/O, iSCSI or Fibre Channel
- Demonstrated ability to mentor junior engineers and guide technical work
- Experience working within PCI DSS or another regulated compliance framework
Desired Qualifications
- CloudStack or OpenStack orchestration platform experience
- Prior VMware-to-KVM migration programme experience
- Pure Storage FlashArray or Dell EMC VMAX/PowerMax administration
- HPE Synergy or BladeSystem chassis operations
- RHCE, RHCSA, or equivalent Linux certification
- Git-based IaC workflow experience (Terraform, GitOps patterns)
- Exposure to SIEM/FIM tooling (Wazuh, Splunk, or similar)
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