Sr. Engineer- Infrastructure Solutions

DGR Systems is looking for a Sr. Engineer, Infrastructure Solutions. You will be responsible for designing and implementing infrastructure solutions with our clients. You will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to develop and maintain robust solutions.

The ideal candidate must be an excellent communicator with an ability to simplify complex topics into clear messages and must be consultative in focus with a growth mindset and passion for continuous learning to bring the best solutions to our clients. The candidate will bring technical experience, solutions leadership, and business acumen to DGR Systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide service ownership through the understanding and evangelizing of how technology solutions can help solve business challenges and guide the development of services to meet those needs
• Ensure the execution of service delivery for our clients to a standard of excellence expected by our clients
• Engage with existing and prospective clients, partnered with our sales organization, to help design, implement, and maintain backup and recovery solutions, including data backup, replication, and restoration processes to solve client challenges
• Serve as a virtualization lead specializing in virtualization technologies.
• Design and implement server, storage, network, and security infrastructures.
• Design and implement converged and hyper-converged infrastructures.
• Develop and execute test plans to check infrastructure and system performance.
• Create and follow organization standard documents such as Service Agreement / Statement of Work, Design Documentation, project deliverables, deployment plans or other complex technical communications.
• Assist management to maintain our training and certification platform, including the identification of the latest industry accreditations, maintaining any pre-existing accreditations for our services and partnerships as well as assisting in the rollout of new processes and technologies.
• Work closely with internal and external teams, including system administrators, network engineers, and database administrators, to ensure data protection is integrated seamlessly into the organization's infrastructure
• All other duties as assigned.

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure solutions design and implementation
• High level expertise and certification in virtualization technologies.
• Strong expertise in multiple industry leading compute platforms.
• Experience with Storage Arrays and Software – (Dell EMC, HPE, NetApp and/or Pure Storage).
• Experience with multiple enterprise backup strategies, including agent / SAN based backups, snapshots, as well as file and block level replication.
• Understanding of tiered storage and storage protocols as well as their impact on virtualized infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience implementation with Converged and Hyper Converged Infrastructures.
• Develop and design solutions to meet provided specifications and professionally presenting them to a technical audience.
• Capability to prepare and deliver written processes both internally and externally (Service Agreement / SoW, design documentation, deployment plans or other complex technical communications.
• Demonstrated client-focus solutions provider excelling at understanding customer needs and translating those needs to solutions
• Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, organizational, presentation, product demonstration, writing, and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Certifications in relevant areas (e.g., Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Backup and Recovery Engineer (CBRE)) are a plus:
• Cisco CCNA or CCNP Data Center
• Citrix Certified – Virtualization
• Dell EMC Proven Professional Certification
• NetApp Implementation Engineer Professional or Installation Engineer Professional
• Nutanix Platform Professional Certification and/or Platform Expert Certification
• VMware Certifications

Why DGR?

DGR Systems helps solve the most complex business and operational challenges for their customers. Our team of top-level industry experts takes an innovative and straightforward approach to consulting, design, deployment, and ongoing Assurance Services to meet customer needs.

At a glance, DGR Systems was founded in 2009 in Tampa, Florida, and provides full-service solutions in the areas of Modern Workplace (Endpoint Solutions, Collaboration), Security (Identity and Access Management, Zero Trust, Information Protection) Modern Infrastructure and Cloud, and Applications (Collaboration Apps, SQL Reporting, Power Platform). With an impressive depth of experience across the Microsoft technology solution stack combined with our focus on integrating solutions from multiple leading vendors, we help organizations design and execute against their most challenging digital transformations. At DGR Systems, our culture is built around one simple standard: Excellence is our Baseline - and we deliver on that standard with every customer, every day.

Core Values

DGR Systems core values are an essential and enduring tenant of our organization. They are a small set of timeless guiding principles describing who we are, how we treat people and how we run our business.

• Passion - Love what you do and make it evident through your approach to your work and the attitude you display.
• Ownership -Be accountable for outcomes. Take initiative to start and move things forward to make something better.
• Integrity -Do the right thing. Always. Every time. Without exception.
• Navigation - Find solutions to problems. Evolve, adapt, and embrace change around you for tomorrow will be different than today.
• Teamwork - Be approachable and engage with the team around you constantly. We win or lose together.

Full-Time Team Member Benefits

DGR Systems is committed to the health and welfare of our team members. This commitment involves offering a comprehensive benefits program to help prepare team members and their family for planned as well as unplanned life events.

• Group Health Care Plans (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Company Paid Life Insurance (Basic & AD&D)
• Company Paid Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Company Paid Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Voluntary Insurance Options (Voluntary Life, Accident Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance)
• 401(k) with Company Match
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Certification Reimbursement
• Work From Home Program
• Wellness Resources

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.

DGR Systems believes in remote work and will accept qualified candidates throughout the United States. However, preference will be given to candidates who currently reside with the Midwest, Southeast and Southwest areas of the United States.