Server Engineer

The Senior Server Engineer is dedicated to architecting and sustaining high-performance, low-maintenance, and highly available server platforms that support critical business operations. This role involves hands-on management and optimization of the company’s server infrastructure, providing technical leadership and mentorship to junior team members.

Key responsibilities include leading complex IT projects, performing comprehensive system analyses, and overseeing the full lifecycle of business-critical IT systems. This role involves close collaboration with Group and Division leadership, subject matter experts, and third-party vendors to guarantee solutions are aligned with organizational objectives and adhere to industry best practices.

Responsibilities / Essential Functions

• Infrastructure & Systems Integration: Administer and integrate client/server operating systems and enterprise infrastructure in secure, multi-tier environments, ensuring availability, performance, and maintainability.
• Network & Cisco Support: Apply core networking principles (VLANs, routing/subnetting, DNS/DHCP, NAT, MTU, QoS, firewall concepts) to support server, virtualization, and application connectivity. Perform basic-intermediate Cisco switch/router configuration and troubleshooting (interfaces, VLANs/trunks, port-channels, STP, routing basics, ACLs); partner with Network Engineering on complex changes.
• System Analysis & Recommendations: Conduct system analyses to identify technology/process gaps, assess risk/impact, and recommend practical improvements.
• Technology Implementation: Assist in the design, deployment, and operationalization of new technologies and services; communicate milestones, risks, and closure updates to stakeholders.
• Project Leadership: Lead or co-lead complex IT initiatives, coordinating across teams to deliver outcomes aligned to scope, schedule, and business objectives.
• Vendor Coordination: Act as a primary technical point of contact for third-party vendors, managing expectations, deliverables, and escalations.
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Provide hands-on guidance, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to strengthen team capability and consistency of execution.
• Operational Excellence: Drive root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews; implement process improvements and automation to reduce manual effort and improve reliability.
• Collaboration & Communication: Collaborate effectively with IT teams and business partners; communicate decisions, priorities, and recommendations clearly in writing and verbally.
• Customer Service & Availability: Maintain a strong customer-service mindset; travel as needed and provide after-hours support to meet operational requirements.

Education / Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or related area (or international equivalent)
• 4 + years related IT experience
• Experienced in managing Dell VxRail, Nutanix, and comparable hyper-converged infrastructure platforms.
• Proficient in managing and optimizing virtual machine environments utilizing vSphere and VMware.
• Experienced in managing Microsoft Azure workloads and optimization.
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting Cisco network environments, with solid routing/switching fundamentals impacting server, virtualization, and cloud connectivity.
• Experienced in using ServiceNow for ticket, change, problem management, and escalation.
• Proficient with MS Office 365 application suite and tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration skills
• Demonstrated leadership aptitude, learning agility, and adaptability.
• Proven experience in leading IT projects and managing cross-functional teams.

Qualifications Preferred

• Proficient in using orchestration and automation tools to streamline processes and improve efficiency.
• Familiar with third-party IT service providers and effective vendor management practices.
• Certifications from leading server vendors such as Dell, HP, or Cisco are highly desirable.
• Experience with open-source tools like GIT and Ansible.

This position is subject to meeting U.S. export compliance and/or U.S. Government contracting citizenship eligibility requirements., Analysis Skills, Ansible, Automation, Best Practices, Business Operations, Candidate Sourcing, Cisco Network Systems, Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Computer Science, Computer Servers, Cross-Functional, Customer Support/Service, DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), DNS (Domain Name System), Delivery Management, Dell Computers, Energy Efficiency, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Firewalls, Git, Hewlett-Packard Product Family, High Availability, High-Throughput Screening (HTS), Human Resources, Incident Management, Information Technology & Information Systems, Knowledge Transfer, Leadership, Manufacturing, Medical Treatment, Mentoring, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Azure, NAT (Network Address Translation), Network Administration/Management, Network Architecture/Engineering, Network Router Configuration, Network Routing, Network Support, Network Switching, Open Source, Operating Systems, Operational Support, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Process Development, Process Improvement, QoS (Quality of Service), Reliability Engineering, Risk Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, Server Support, ServiceNow, Subnetting, Supply Chain, Sustainability, System Integration (SI), Systems Administration/Management, Systems Analysis, Team Lead/Manager, Team Player, Technical Leadership, Technical Support, Technology Analysis, Testing, VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network), VMWare, VMWare vSphere, Vendor/Supplier Management, Virtual Machine (VM), Virtualization, Willing to Travel, Writing Skills

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we’ve enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.

With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.

Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.

Our Purpose - Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow - comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.

By combining deep expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit, we help customers succeed in markets that demand performance, reliability, and sustainability.

As we look to the future, Parker is advancing initiatives in energy efficiency and sustainability while developing the next generation of talent and leaders to engineer a better tomorrow., Parker Hannifin Corp Parker is the global leader in motion and control technologies, precisely engineering solutions for customers around the world. Capabilities

Parker’s engineering expertise spans the core motion technologies - electromechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic - will a full complement of fluid control systems; software and electronic controls; filtration systems; and instrumentation and sealing technologies.

The motion and control industry supports nearly all finished goods on the market today. We’re committed to helping our customers achieve higher levels of productivity. You can’t see the engineering in our products, but every day you experience the results of our work, on virtually everything that moves.

Global Strengths

With operations in more than 46 countries around the world, Parker offers many career paths and opportunities for advancement. We offer a number of hands-on training programs that enables new hires to quickly get up to speed and begin contributing to Parker’s success immediately. In addition, employees are encouraged to actively participate in professional and industry- related organizations.

Company facts

With annual sales exceeding $10 billion, Parker is the world’s leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, providing precision- engineered solutions for a wide variety of commercial , mobile, industrial and aerospace markets. Parker has increased its annual dividends paid to shareholders for 54 consecutive years, among the top five longest- running dividend-increase records in the S&P 500 index. For more information, visit the company’s website at http://www.parker.com , or its investor information site at http://www.phstock.com

Company Size: 10,000 employees or more