Technology Server Engineer Lead

Job Title: Digital Technology Server Engineer Lead

Job Location: Menasha, WI

Eligibility/Clearance: US Citizenship required as this supports a

federal customer

The Server Engineer - Lead is a senior technical contributor responsible

for architecting, operating, and optimizing organizations enterprise

compute and virtualization ecosystem. This role ensures the security,

stability, scalability, and lifecycle management of a large fleet of

Intel-based server hardware and virtual infrastructure built on VMware

and other hypervisors that support critical manufacturing, ERP,

engineering, and enterprise business applications across data center and

hybrid cloud environments.

The successful candidate will combine deep expertise in enterprise

server hardware, virtualization, automation, and infrastructure

operations to drive operational excellence, standardization, resiliency,

and modernization. They will be accountable for the full compute

platform stack, from hardware strategy and firmware governance to

virtualization design, performance optimization, capacity planning, and

operational support, while advancing automation, monitoring, and

platform engineering practices that improve reliability and efficiency

at scale.

Enterprise Compute and Virtualization Platform Management

- Lead the architecture, implementation, lifecycle management, and

operational support of 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.

Infrastructure Operations and Platform Reliability

- Serve as a senior escalation point for complex server hardware and

virtualization incidents, leading root-cause analysis and

restoration efforts for critical platform issues.

- 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.

- Oversee platform resilience through design and support of

high-availability, fault-tolerant, and disaster recovery aligned

infrastructure services.

- Ensure enterprise operational readiness for maintenance events,

lifecycle transitions, incident response, and business continuity

requirements.

Automation and Infrastructure-as-Code

- 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.

- Build and enhance automation for hypervisor host deployment, cluster

configuration, lifecycle management, and policy enforcement.

- Codify operational procedures and infrastructure standards into

repeatable, auditable automation workflows to reduce manual effort

and improve consistency.

- Support infrastructure change through automated validation, testing,

and deployment processes that improve quality and reduce risk.

Virtualization Ecosystem and Modern Platform Integration

- Lead engineering and administration of virtualization platforms,

including core hypervisor services, cluster design, host profiles,

virtual networking coordination, and integration with enterprise

storage and backup platforms.

- Maintain deep expertise in Vmware, as well as other hypervisors and

technologies that make up Oshkosh's enterprise compute portfolio.

- Maintain familiarity with adjacent technologies supporting the

virtual infrastructure ecosystem, including hyperconverged

platforms, disaster recovery tooling, monitoring systems, VMware

Aria Operations, container platforms, and hybrid cloud extensions

where applicable.

- Maintain familiarity with public cloud compute services and how

enterprise workloads, recovery strategies, and management practices

may extend into Azure, AWS, or similar environments as part of a

broader infrastructure 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.

Monitoring, Visibility, and Operational Insight

- Maintain and enhance 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.

- Establish dashboards, alert thresholds, and operational reporting

for server hardware health, virtualization performance, resource

consumption, capacity trends, and availability.

- Use telemetry, trend analysis, and platform insights to inform

capacity decisions, lifecycle planning, and service improvement

initiatives.

- Partner with enterprise monitoring and operations teams to improve

actionable insight across the compute and virtualization landscape.

Collaboration and Leadership

- 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.

- Collaborate cross-functionally with infrastructure, security,

architecture, and application stakeholders to align platform

capabilities with business priorities.

- Contribute to strategic planning, roadmaps, standards development,

and investment recommendations for enterprise compute and

virtualization services.

YOUR IMPACT

The Server Engineer - Lead is essential to ensuring the stability,

performance, and evolution of Oshkosh's enterprise compute and

virtualization ecosystem. By combining deep server expertise with strong

knowledge of VMware, VMware Aria Operations, and other hypervisors,

along with operational leadership and automation discipline, this role

drives reliability, standardization, and scalability across one of the

company's most critical infrastructure foundations. This position is a

cornerstone of modern infrastructure operations, balancing day-to-day

platform resilience with the engineering rigor required to support

future growth, modernization, and digital transformation.

An advance understanding of multiple server aspects and environment in

order to take ownership of most aspects from end to end.

- Other duties as assigned.

- Regular attendance is required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

- 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

- Experience: 7+ years administering and architecting enterprise

server infrastructure and virtualization environments at scale.

- Technical Expertise: 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.

- Platform Operations: Strong experience managing large virtualized

environments supporting mission-critical enterprise applications in

a highly available and regulated setting.

- Automation: Proficiency with Ansible, Terraform, PowerCLI, and

scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python for infrastructure

automation and operational efficiency.

- Hardware Lifecycle Management: Experience with firmware baselines,

hardware compatibility, server provisioning, vendor

interoperability, and compute platform refresh strategy.

- Ecosystem Knowledge: Strong understanding of integration points

across compute, storage, networking, backup, disaster recovery,

identity, monitoring, and container platforms.

- Container Familiarity: Familiarity with container management

platforms and how virtual infrastructure supports solutions such as

OpenShift, Kubernetes, or similar enterprise container ecosystems.

- Public Cloud Familiarity: 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.

- Monitoring and Reliability: 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.

- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead complex infrastructure

initiatives, mentor technical staff, and drive cross-functional

operational improvements.

- Soft Skills: Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving

skills with a focus on platform stability, scalability, and

continuous improvement.

Arena Technical Resources, LLC, (ATR) is an Equal Opportunity Employer

(EOE) who will provide equal employment opportunity to employees and

applicants for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion,

color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, veteran status, ancestry,

sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status,

family structure, genetic information, or mental or physical disability.