Network Engineer (Server & Storage)

Requirements:

• 7+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering, implementation, professional services, or advanced technical support.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise servers, storage, virtualization, and networking, with deep expertise in at least one area and the ability to configure and troubleshoot across the others.
• Experience delivering customer infrastructure deployments, migrations, upgrades, and refresh projects from planning through completion.
• Experience with Windows Server and/or Linux, directory services, and enterprise virtualization platforms.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, switching, wireless networking, firewalls, and VPNs.
• Experience with SAN/NAS storage, backup and recovery platforms, replication, and high-availability environments.
• Ability to diagnose issues across interconnected infrastructure technologies.
• Strong customer-facing communication, documentation, and project coordination skills.
• Ability to manage multiple customer engagements independently and work effectively at customer locations.
• Willingness to travel throughout the Southeastern U.S., including occasional overnight travel, and work scheduled evenings or weekends when customer deployments or maintenance require it.
• Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Preferred: Experience supporting K-12 school districts or higher education institutions.
• Preferred: Experience with a VAR, MSP, systems integrator, or manufacturer professional services organization, and with multiple external customer environments.
• Preferred: Familiarity with education purchasing, budgeting, E-Rate, and public-sector procurement.
• Preferred: Experience with technical discovery, solution architecture, and scope development.
• Preferred: Experience with hybrid cloud environments, Microsoft 365 Education, Google Workspace for Education, and identity integrations.
• Preferred: Automation experience using PowerShell, Python, Bash, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Preferred: Relevant server, storage, virtualization, networking, backup, cloud, or security certifications.

Responsibilities:

• Assess customer infrastructure and recommend solutions that account for technical requirements, existing environments, staffing, budgets, and long-term needs.
• Design secure, reliable, scalable server, storage, virtualization, backup, and network solutions; translate customer requirements into practical designs and implementation plans.
• Partner with sales and account teams on technical discovery, solution validation, demonstrations, and proposals; prepare technical designs, bills of materials, statements of work, and implementation estimates.
• Explain technical recommendations and tradeoffs clearly to customer IT teams, administrators, and organizational leaders.
• Lead customer deployments, migrations, upgrades, and technology refreshes from planning through completion and handoff.
• Install, configure, and troubleshoot physical servers, hypervisors, SAN/NAS storage, and backup platforms.
• Configure and troubleshoot switches, routers, firewalls, wireless networks, VPNs, VLANs, and routing.
• Configure Windows Server and/or Linux environments, directory services, DNS, DHCP, segmentation, and infrastructure integrations.
• Support on-premises Exchange, Microsoft 365/Office 365, Google environments, and hybrid infrastructure.
• Implement high availability, replication, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Coordinate with project managers, customers, vendors, and subcontractors to deliver implementations within scope and schedule.
• Validate completed environments, document configurations, train customer teams, and provide operational handoffs.
• Serve as a senior escalation resource, diagnose complex infrastructure issues, perform root cause analysis, and work with manufacturers to resolve hardware and software problems.
• Apply security hardening and infrastructure configuration best practices; automate repetitive deployment and administrative tasks where appropriate.
• Maintain technical documentation, implementation standards, and reusable deployment procedures; mentor other engineers and maintain relevant manufacturer certifications.
• Design and support infrastructure for multi-campus K-12 and higher education environments, accounting for device populations, instructional schedules, online testing, enrollment periods, and limited maintenance windows.
• Support infrastructure for learning platforms, student information systems, research, and administrative applications, addressing student data privacy, web filtering, secure access, identity, and network segmentation.
• Contribute technical documentation for education procurement and E-Rate projects when applicable, and account for education-sector budgeting, funding, purchasing, and procurement considerations.

Technologies:

• Ansible
• Bash
• Cloud
• Hardware
• Support
• Linux
• Microsoft 365
• Network
• Office 365
• PowerShell
• Python
• Security
• TCP/IP
• Web
• Windows
• Cisco

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We are a value-added reseller and technology solutions provider serving customers across the Southeastern United States, with a strong focus on K-12 school districts and higher education institutions. Were hiring a hands-on, customer-facing Senior Server, Storage & Network Engineer to deliver infrastructure solutions across server, storage, virtualization, backup, and networking. The role is based in South Carolina, with a home-based arrangement when not traveling to customer sites; working from our office is also welcome. Travel may reach 75% throughout the Southeast, including occasional overnight trips, with business travel expenses such as mileage and hotels paid or reimbursed under company policy. This is a six-month contract-to-hire opportunity for someone seeking a permanent role afterward, with contract pay of $50–$62 per hour and a stated permanent salary range of $110,000–$130,000 per year; the posting also lists a salary range of $100,000–$130,000. After permanent hire, benefits include health coverage, a 401(k), paid time off, professional development, and additional company benefits. Project-based bonuses may be available but are not scheduled or guaranteed. The anticipated interview process includes an introductory conversation, an in-depth technical interview, and a final meeting with senior leadership, potentially including the company president.

last updated 43 week of 2026