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We are driven by a commitment to excellence, leveraging a team of over 650+ highly skilled professionals to design, implement, and manage technology systems that are not only effective and competitive but also scalable and value driven. Our comprehensive suite of services includes the creation of customized technology solutions tailored to specific business needs, in-depth IT assessments and strategic planning, meticulous IT device and infrastructure management, robust data backup and recovery solutions, seamless cloud and on-premise migrations, enterprise-grade security services, and round-the-clock, 24/7/365 quad-lingual end-user support. At Jolera, we believe in empowering organizations worldwide with innovative and reliable IT solutions, and we invite you to join us in this mission.\nPosition Description\nWe are seeking a Senior Infrastructure Architect with deep hands-on expertise in VMware vSphere, enterprise networking, and infrastructure refresh leadership to serve as Jolera’s senior technical lead for our enterprise managed services customers. The ideal candidate has a strong background in virtualization, cloud-managed networking, enterprise firewalls, hyperconverged infrastructure, and backup and disaster recovery design. This is a sustained, in-person engineering role requiring on-site presence three to five days per week. Remote and travel-based arrangements are not available for this position.\nWhat You’ll Do\nOwn cloud-managed networking governance across customer environments, including wireless, switching, security appliances, and monitoring.\nManage VMware vSphere health, lifecycle, and capacity across customer estates.\nLead infrastructure refresh programs spanning hyperconverged infrastructure, compute, and storage, including design, vendor selection, migration planning, and execution oversight.\nOwn enterprise firewall operations, including centralized firewall management and policy lifecycle.\nDrive backup posture using Veeam Backup & Replication, including image-based recovery design and disaster recovery runbook execution with regular restore drills.\nCoordinate ISP escalations and circuit-level issues across multi-site customer environments.\nServe as the technical liaison between customers and Jolera’s shared Network and Compute / Storage / Backup engineering bench.\nProvide on-site technical leadership during customer change advisory boards, design sessions, and incident response activities.\nRequirements\nWho You Are\n7+ years in enterprise infrastructure engineering across compute and networking.\nDeep VMware vSphere experience, including vCenter, DRS, HA, and Lifecycle Manager.\nStrong hands-on experience with cloud-managed networking platforms (Meraki, Aruba Central, or equivalent) covering switching, wireless, and security appliances.\nWorking knowledge of enterprise firewalls (Fortinet, Palo Alto, Cisco, or equivalent) and centralized firewall management.\nHyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) experience on any major platform (Nutanix, VMware vSAN, Cisco HyperFlex, or Dell VxRail).\nHands-on experience with Veeam Backup & Replication, including image-based recovery design and disaster recovery configuration.\nLocated in or near Troy, MI, or willing to relocate. 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