Senior Systems Engineer (VMware)

Location: Hybrid permitted; required onsite presence at the Washington, D.C. facility for a two-week block approximately every two months, plus onsite support as needed for projects. The position is based in the United States.

Salary: $125,000–$145,000 USD annually, plus benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a mission-driven multimedia organization producing news, information, and music programming with independent public radio stations.

What you will do

• Design, deploy, administer, and optimize VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS, and enterprise SAN/NAS infrastructure.
• Manage server builds, security patching, virtual machine lifecycles, storage capacity, and AWS or Azure hybrid-cloud integration.
• Design, maintain, and test disaster recovery, backups, replication, and automated site failovers.
• Lead Tier-3 escalations, root-cause analysis, complex incident resolution, and infrastructure upgrades.
• Develop automation scripts, provisioning workflows, health reports, architecture diagrams, SOPs, runbooks, and technical documentation.
• Provide system-health reporting and participate in a 24x7 incident response and on-call rotation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Systems or Infrastructure Engineer supporting, administering, and troubleshooting enterprise data center systems.
• Hands-on experience designing and managing VMware vSphere environments, including clustering, DRS, HA, and vMotion.
• Extensive experience with Cisco UCS Manager, service profiles, templates, and physical hardware deployment.
• Strong experience configuring enterprise SAN/NAS storage arrays and storage networking protocols.
• 2+ years of experience planning, designing, and maintaining AWS or Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Working knowledge of Windows Server 2016+, Active Directory, Azure AD, Office 365, IIS, SQL, DFS, DHCP, and DNS.
• Experience producing detailed systems documentation and flow charts, with strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Expert troubleshooting and analytical skills; knowledge of VLANs, routing, switching, LACP, DNS, DHCP, security practices, and virtualization infrastructure.
• Ability to lead infrastructure upgrades and migrations, manage multiple projects, participate in after-hours maintenance, and complete the required onsite rotation.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with Ansible, Puppet, PowerShell, Python, or Bash automation.
• Experience with enterprise SSO/MFA, Exchange Online or hybrid Exchange, and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
• Active VMware VCP, Cisco CCNA/CCNP Data Center, Microsoft, AWS, or Azure solutions architecture certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, exempt employment in a collaborative, inclusive, mission-driven environment.
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and retirement savings options.
• Paid time off and financial well-being benefits are available to eligible regular full-time employees scheduled for 30 or more hours per week.
• Hybrid work is permitted, with regular onsite attendance and participation in an on-call rotation.