System Engineer, Nutanix, Red Hat

Responsibilities

• Own the monitoring, proactive health‑checking, performance tuning, and capacity management of enterprise Nutanix HCI clusters (AOS/AHV) and RHEL environments.
• Manage routine and emergency patching, kernel upgrades, and firmware updates across Nutanix blocks and RHEL estates while adhering strictly to government security baselines and minimizing system downtime.
• Write and maintain Ansible playbooks and Bash scripts to automate repetitive system administration tasks, configurations, and configuration drift management.
• Serve as the technical escalation point for complex infrastructure incidents, conducting deep‑dive root cause analysis (RCA) and implementing permanent fixes.
• Regularly manage, validate, and test disaster recovery (DR) procedures and backup replication policies across production nodes.
• Work closely with application developers, security operators, and infrastructure architects to ensure ...