Infrastructure System Engineer

MUST HAVE (hands-on, personally owned)

• 5 years as a Systems Administrator or Systems Engineer in a multi-server enterprise environment
• Hyper-V administration: hosts, failover clustering, VM builds, live migration, and patching hosts without taking VMs down. VMware-only experience does not qualify.
• Windows Server: builds, patching, and upgrades
• Active Directory and Group Policy, plus Entra ID
• Enterprise storage (SAN): has provisioned volumes or LUNs, not only consumed storage another team gave them
• Backup and recovery: names the backup tool, and has personally performed and tested restores
• Microsoft 365 administration: licensing, Exchange Online, Entra ID, and security

NOT A FIT

• Help desk, desktop support, or junior administrators
• Cloud-only or Microsoft 365-only profiles
• Network-only profiles
• Architect-level candidates. The client wants practical, hands-on engineers.
• Anyone who needs remote work, sponsorship, or more than the conversion range

INTERVIEW STANDARD

• The client interviews onsite with a technical panel.
• Candidates may be asked to draw a server deployment on a whiteboard and explain the full infrastructure behind it, step by step, and the business reason for each decision they made.
• Anything listed on the resume can be questioned in detail.
• The client is rejecting candidates who list tools or experience they cannot explain, so please remove anything the candidate cannot discuss in detail before submitting.
• Copies of certifications must be included in the submission if it is listed on the resume.

Include the following details in the candidate brief submittal summary:

1. The largest environment they personally supported (users, sites, servers, Hyper-V hosts, VMs), and what did they own versus the team?
2. Their experience with Hyper-V cluster, including storage, networking, and backups.
3. Experience provisioning storage on SAN.
4. Experience with restores they performed and the backup tool they used.