IT Server Engineer

$20,800 - $20,800/Yr

WinCo Foods - Boise, ID

Full-time - Mid Level

Boise, ID

5,001-10,000 employees

Food and Beverage Retailers

About the position

The IT Server Engineer at WinCo Foods plays a crucial role in supporting, analyzing, and documenting server and system operations across corporate offices, stores, and distribution centers. This position involves installing, configuring, maintaining, and optimizing server hardware and software to ensure performance requirements are met. The engineer will also diagnose and resolve hardware and software issues, manage IT projects, and provide exceptional customer service to both internal and external clients.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with IT Staff to create optimal server and systems performance and configurations.
• Monitor the physical and virtual environment to ensure safe and reliable operation and conformance to Service Level Agreements and performance metrics.
• Practice hardware and software asset management, including maintenance of systems component inventory.
• Conduct research on server products, services, and standards in support of server procurement and development efforts.
• Optimize systems resources including performance, capacity, availability, serviceability, and recoverability.
• Respond to emergency server and systems outages.
• Perform ongoing analysis of daily operations to identify issues and recommend changes to increase operational efficiency and quality of service.
• Maintain current knowledge of business continuity and disaster recovery plan executables.
• Participate in incident response for network or security related instances.
• Provide guidance and training to IT Staff as required.
• Manage assigned projects to deliver services that meet established objectives on time and within budget.
• Design, Engineer, and Maintain server, storage, and mail system solutions.
• Manage SQL Databases and related professional services.
• Design and implement secure system architecture to meet PCI requirements.
• Evaluate, test and recommend server and systems hardware and software products.
• Aid in development of business continuity, incident response, and disaster recovery plans and maintain current knowledge of plan executables.
• Be on-call to trouble-shoot emergencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in an IT related field OR an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• At least 6 years Server Administration experience.
• Technical knowledge of Windows Server and VMWare.
• Design and Engineering of DHCP, DNS, and other network related services.
• Proficiency in Veeam backup software, vCenter virtualization software, and creating/managing VMs in a VMware environment.
• Experience with Exchange 2016, Powershell and Perl scripting, and Terminal services/RDS.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with keen attention to detail.
• Advanced knowledge of Storage Area Networks (SAN).
• Experience implementing server and systems security.
• Ability to use log correlation tools such as Splunk and Syslog.

Nice-to-haves

• 5 years Retail Grocery Experience
• MCSE certification
• VCP certification

Benefits

• Top-tier medical plans
• Tuition support