Engineer III, Linux and Virtualization Infrastructure

WideOpenWest•Denver, CO

About The Position

The Engineer III, Linux and Virtualization Infrastructure helps design, build, and maintain enterprise infrastructure supporting customers and teams across multiple data centers. The role contributes to the architecture and production deployment of new solutions while ensuring existing environments operate reliably. It includes building data center environments and improving virtualization, compute, and storage platforms to meet current needs and future growth.

Requirements

6+ years of related experience as a Linux Systems Administrator or Linux Systems Engineer.
Expertise with Linux and/or Unix operating systems.
Strong networking fundamentals and a solid understanding of Storage Area Networks (SANs).
Knowledge of virtualization and containerization technologies such as VMware, Proxmox, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Experience managing complex infrastructure projects.
Experience with Windows operating systems and Microsoft Office applications.
Clear written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work independently, collaborate with a diverse team, and manage priorities in a fast-paced environment, including under pressure.
A bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or an equivalent combination of training and experience is described as not required.

Responsibilities

Help configure new data center sites and upgrade existing locations, supporting compute, storage, and software environments.
Research, design, integrate, configure, and maintain systems that meet customer and business needs.
Manage multiple virtualization clusters and plan for current and future capacity.
Support high availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and monitoring, including actionable alerts and recovery processes.
Translate application and user requirements into operating system, CPU, memory, storage, and I/O performance needs for physical and virtual servers.
Help maintain Fibre Channel, VXLAN, and network-attached storage (NAS) solutions.
Ensure service platforms and applications are backed up according to established policies and procedures.
Serve as an engineering resource for the Network Operations Center (NOC) and operations teams to isolate faults and resolve complex problems.
Partner with Networking and Security and support internal and external customers.
Document system designs and mentor colleagues.
Maintain lab environments, test new hardware and software, and contribute research and recommendations to future technology decisions.