Senior Data Center Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Decatur, GA

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Serve as the enterpriseProductOwner for VMware and Nutanix virtualization environments with accountability for platform stability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence.

• Lead and manage teams of onshore and offshore virtualization engineers, fostering a high-performance culture focused on accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

• Drive successful delivery of infrastructure programs and projects using agile and iterative delivery methodologies withstrongfocus on execution, risk management, and operational readiness.

• Develop andmaintainstrategic platform roadmaps focused on automation, self-service capabilities, infrastructure as code, and operational modernization.

• Oversee all virtualization infrastructure builds within enterprise data centers, ensuring alignment with architectural standards, resiliency requirements, and operational best practices.

• Lead enterprise transformation initiatives, including large-scale migration programs from VMware to Nutanix AHV platforms.

• Coordinate cross-functional teams, vendors, and managed service partners to ensure project milestones, deliverables, and migration schedules are achieved.

• Provide executive-level reporting and communicationsregardingprogram health, risks, dependencies, financials, and delivery status.

• Manage platform lifecycle activities including hardware refreshes, software upgrades, patching strategies, and retirement of legacy infrastructure.

• Direct capacity planning,utilizationanalysis, and budget forecasting activities to ensure efficient resource allocation and long-term scalability.

• Develop andmaintainoperational dashboards and KPI reporting related to availability,utilization, performance, incident trends, and service health.

• Champion automation initiativesleveragingscripting, orchestration, and event-driven remediation to improve operational efficiency, resiliency, and service delivery.

• Ensure virtualization platformscomply withenterprise security standards, hardening requirements, and regulatory obligations.

• Lead vulnerability remediation efforts across the virtualization ecosystem and partner closely with cybersecurity teams to mitigate operational risk.

• Support audit, risk, and compliance activities by ensuring controls areproperly designed, documented, and executed.

• Manage incident escalation processes and lead resolution of complex infrastructure issuesimpactingcritical business services.

• Oversee data center expansion and migration initiatives, including infrastructure deployment and workload migrations betweenhostingfacilities.

• Establish strong vendor relationships and oversee engagements with VARs, strategic partners, and technology providers.

• Drive continuous process improvement initiatives that enhance operational maturity, service reliability, and customer experience.

• Mentor and develop engineering talent through coaching, career development planning, and performance management.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• 8+ years of experience managing enterprise infrastructure engineering or virtualization platforms within large, complex environments.

• 5+ years of leadership experience managing technical engineering teams, including distributed or offshore resources.

• Deepexpertisewith VMware technologies including vSphere, vCenter,ESXi, and enterprise virtualization operations.

• Strong experience with Nutanix platforms, including Nutanix AHV and Prism administration.

• Proventrack recordleading large-scale infrastructure transformation and migration programs.

• Strong understanding of data center infrastructure,compute, storage, networking, and disaster recovery concepts.

• Experience implementing automation and infrastructure as code solutions using scripting and orchestration technologies.

• Demonstrated experience with agile delivery methodologies and infrastructure project management practices.

• Strong knowledge of infrastructure security principles, vulnerability management, and compliance frameworks.

• Experience developing operational metrics, KPI dashboards, and executive reporting.

• Proven ability to manage budgets, forecasting, vendor relationships, and technology lifecycle planning.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and decision-making skills.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills withabilityto communicate effectively across technical and executive audiences.

• Experienceoperatingwithin highly regulated enterprise environments, preferably in financial services.

Preferred Requirements

• Master's degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, or related discipline.

• Industry certifications such as VMware VCP/VCAP, Nutanix NCP, ITIL, PMP,SAFe, or equivalent.

• Experience leading enterprise-scale migrations from VMware to Nutanix AHV.

• Knowledge of cloud integration strategies and hybrid infrastructure architectures.

• Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automated infrastructure provisioning.

• Familiarity with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, or similar automation technologies.

• Experience supporting enterprise audit, regulatory, and risk management processes in the banking or financial services industry.

• Strong understanding of event-driven operations, observability platforms, and proactive incident remediation approaches.

• Experience building and operating infrastructure services across multiple enterprise data centers.

• Demonstrated success influencing senior leadership and driving strategic technology initiatives across large organizations.