Digital Technology Server Engineer Lead

About this role

At Oshkosh, we build, serve and protect people and communities around the world by designing and manufacturing some of the toughest specialty trucks and access equipment. We employ over 18,000 team members all united by a common purpose. Our engineering and product innovation help keep soldiers and firefighters safe, is critical in building and keeping communities clean and helps people do their jobs every day.

Server Engineer - Lead (Enterprise Compute and Virtualization)   Enterprise infrastructure role focused on Intel-based compute, virtualization operations, automation, and adjacent technology integration.  

The Server Engineer - Lead is a senior technical contributor responsible for architecting, operating, and optimizing Oshkosh Corporation's enterprise compute and virtualization ecosystem. This role ensures the security, stability, scalability, and lifecycle management of a large fleet of Intel-based server hardware and virtual infrastructure built on VMware and other hypervisors that support critical manufacturing, ERP, engineering, and enterprise business applications across data center and hybrid cloud environments.     The successful candidate will combine deep expertise in enterprise server hardware, virtualization, automation, and infrastructure operations to drive operational excellence, standardization, resiliency, and modernization. They will be accountable for the full compute platform stack, from hardware strategy and firmware governance to virtualization design, performance optimization, capacity planning, and operational support, while advancing automation, monitoring, and platform engineering practices that improve reliability and efficiency at scale.   

Enterprise Compute and Virtualization Platform Management  • Lead the architecture, implementation, lifecycle management, and operational support of Oshkosh's large-scale enterprise compute environment, including Intel-based server platforms and virtualization platforms based on VMware and other hypervisors. 

• Manage server hardware standards, platform design, firmware strategy, host lifecycle management, and infrastructure refresh planning across the enterprise. 

• Oversee the health, performance, availability, and capacity of virtualization environments, including hypervisor hosts, management platforms, clusters, distributed resource scheduling, and high availability configurations. 

• Design and maintain resilient compute and virtualization solutions that support mission-critical enterprise workloads with strong emphasis on uptime, recoverability, and operational consistency. 

• Partner with storage, networking, backup, security, and application teams to ensure end-to-end performance and reliability of hosted workloads. 

• Establish and maintain operational standards for provisioning, patching, upgrades, host remediation, and configuration consistency across the compute estate. 

Infrastructure Operations and Platform Reliability  • Serve as a senior escalation point for complex server hardware and virtualization incidents, leading root-cause analysis and restoration efforts for critical platform issues. 

• Drive proactive management of system health, resource utilization, hardware events, performance bottlenecks, and operational risks across the compute environment. 

• Lead capacity planning and performance optimization efforts for compute, memory, clustering, and virtualization resources to support current and future business demand. 

• Oversee platform resilience through design and support of high-availability, fault-tolerant, and disaster recovery aligned infrastructure services. 

• Ensure enterprise operational readiness for maintenance events, lifecycle transitions, incident response, and business continuity requirements. 

Automation and Infrastructure-as-Code  • Architect and maintain automated workflows using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, PowerCLI, and scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python for provisioning, configuration management, patching, and compliance activities. 

• Build and enhance automation for hypervisor host deployment, cluster configuration, lifecycle management, and policy enforcement. 

• Codify operational procedures and infrastructure standards into repeatable, auditable automation workflows to reduce manual effort and improve consistency. 

• Support infrastructure change through automated validation, testing, and deployment processes that improve quality and reduce risk. 

Virtualization Ecosystem and Modern Platform Integration  • Lead engineering and administration of virtualization platforms, including core hypervisor services, cluster design, host profiles, virtual networking coordination, and integration with enterprise storage and backup platforms. 

• Maintain deep expertise in Vmware, as well as other hypervisors and technologies that make up Oshkosh's enterprise compute portfolio. 

• Maintain familiarity with adjacent technologies supporting the virtual infrastructure ecosystem, including hyperconverged platforms, disaster recovery tooling, monitoring systems, VMware Aria Operations, container platforms, and hybrid cloud extensions where applicable. 

• Maintain familiarity with public cloud compute services and how enterprise workloads, recovery strategies, and management practices may extend into Azure, AWS, or similar environments as part of a broader infrastructure portfolio. 

• Collaborate with platform, cloud, and application teams to support evolving infrastructure patterns, including integration with private cloud and container-hosting platforms where virtual infrastructure is foundational. 

• Provide technical leadership on modernization opportunities that improve efficiency, scalability, recoverability, and operational simplicity across the enterprise compute platform. 

Monitoring, Visibility, and Operational Insight  • Maintain and enhance platform visibility through enterprise monitoring, alerting, and performance analytics tools

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