Job Title: IT Systems Engineer Location: Bellevue, WA Type: Contract (year) typically extends on a yearly basis Compensation: $28.00-$52.00 Work Model: Onsite – onsite Hours: 40.0 Paid Holidays | PTO
System One is seeking an IT Systems Engineer to provide the following services. A skilled and motivated hardware infrastructure engineer to join our client’s Enterprise IT team. In this hands-on role, you will be the primary owner of our physical compute, storage, and power infrastructure spanning a small/mediums sized data center and several local MDF/IDF spaces across our facilities (Bellevue and Everett).
This is a critical role for a self-starter who is comfortable owning infrastructure end-to-end: from racking servers and configuring VMware environments to managing backup operations, monitoring environmental conditions, and ensuring environmental continuity across all sites.
Tasks
- Maintain and operate a medium-sized private data center, including rack management, cabling, and capacity planning
- Support and manage multiple local MDF (Main Distribution Frame) and IDF (Intermediate Distribution Frame) spaces across company locations (9 in Puget Sound region)
- Perform regular site walkthroughs and inspections to ensure physical infrastructure integrity
- Coordinate with facilities and site management teams on space, power, and cooling requirements
- Manage UPS systems and PDUs (Power Distribution Units) across the data center and MDF/IDF locations
- Monitor UPS health, battery status, load levels, and runtime; coordinate battery replacements and preventive maintenance
- Respond to power alarms, perform load balancing, and support planned maintenance windows involving power systems
- Maintain documentation of power circuits, load maps, and single-line diagrams
- Monitor data center and MDF/IDF environmental conditions including temperature, humidity, and airflow
- Respond to environmental alerts and escalate to facilities or management as appropriate
- Deploy, configure, and maintain VMware vSphere/ESXi environments including vCenter management
- Manage physical server hardware lifecycle: procurement support, racking, cabling, firmware updates, and decommissioning
- Monitor host performance, resource utilization, and capacity; proactively address bottlenecks
- Trouble shoot hardware failures including CPUs, memory, storage controllers, NICs, and drive arrays
- Coordinate with vendors (Primarily HPE) on hardware support and RMA processes
- Administer SAN, NAS, local storage solutions and cloud archives; manage volumes, datastores, and provisioning
- Monitor storage health, performance, capacity and plan and execute expansions as needed
- Manage storage replication and snapshots in coordination with retention policy and backup strategy
- Partner closely with the networking team on rack and cabling coordination, infrastructure changes, and joint projects
- Support change management processes including maintenance windows, change tickets, and post-implementation reviews
- Contribute to IT documentation including runbooks, asset inventories, and infrastructure diagrams
- Participate in on-call rotation for after-hours infrastructure emergencies
- Administer enterprise backup solutions for servers, VMs and Microsoft Office365/Azure assets
- Schedule, monitor, and validate backup jobs; ensure recovery objectives (RTO/RPO) are consistently met
- Perform and document restore tests on a regular cadence per policy
Key Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree, or equivalent work experience
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in a data center or enterprise infrastructure role
- Proficiency with VMware vSphere/ESXi and vCenter administration
- Experience managing physical server hardware from major vendors (HPE preferred)
- Working knowledge of SAN/NAS storage platforms and concepts (iSCSI, NFS, FC)
- Experience administering enterprise backup solutions and validating recovery procedures
- Hands-on experience with APC UPS systems or similar enterprise UPS platforms
- Familiarity with PDU management and power capacity planning
- Comfort working in data center environments including structured cabling, rack management, and physical hardware installation
- Strong troubleshooting skills with an ability to diagnose and resolve complex hardware and infrastructure issues
- Ability to lift and rack equipment up to 50 lbs. and work in physically demanding data center environments
- Ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues quickly, while leveraging IT change management processes
- VMware VCP (vSphere) certification or equivalent experience
- APC/Schneider Electric product certifications or formal training
- Experience with environmental monitoring tools (Sunbird, or similar)
- Exposure to DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) tools
- Familiarity with ITIL practices and formal change management processes
- Experience in a multi-site or campus environment
- Scripting or automation skills (Ansible, PowerShell, Bash) for infrastructure tasks
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical users
- Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with networking, application and cloud technical teams
- Customer service orientation with a problem-solving mindset
- Strong communication skills desired. The service provider will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect, and a desire to foster teamwork.
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