Systems Administrator II

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science is seeking a System Administrator II with advanced expertise in Microsoft Hyper-V and enterprise storage systems to join our infrastructure team. This position plays a key role in designing, maintaining, and optimizing our virtualized environments and storage platforms that support critical museum operations. The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience with Hyper-V clustering, failover configuration, performance tuning, and backup integration, along with solid understanding of SAN/NAS arrays and data protection solutions such as Veeam. We are seeking a skilled System Administrator II with specialized expertise in storage systems and virtualization technologies to join our infrastructure team. This role is critical to maintaining and optimizing our enterprise storage and virtualization environment, requiring deep technical knowledge of modern storage platforms, backup systems and hypervisor technologies. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience with enterprise storage arrays and virtualization clusters, with a proven ability to architect scalable solutions.

Essential Duties

• Architect and manage Hyper-V clusters, implement failover clustering, optimize resources, and perform advanced performance tuning.
• Lead VM lifecycle management from deployment through decommissioning.
• Design and maintain Veeam backup and recovery strategies for critical systems.
• Manage complex storage networking including SAN, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel; implement and troubleshoot multipathing for optimal redundancy.
• Monitor system health and performance; produce capacity forecasting and optimization reports.
• Develop and maintain detailed documentation for virtualization and storage procedures.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on infrastructure planning, upgrades, and integrations.

Minimum Qualifications/Requirements

• Associate degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
• 3 years’ experience in system, network and enterprise backup systems administration and troubleshooting.
• 3 years’ advanced server operating system support including but not limited to Microsoft Windows Server operating systems.
• Ability to work during scheduled downtime; weekend and holiday on-call duty.

Ideal Candidate Will Be/Have

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field; equivalent experience considered.
• Experience: 3–5 years in system administration with direct virtualization and storage responsibilities.
• Hyper-V Expertise: Advanced proficiency with Hyper-V clusters — failover configuration, resource allocation, live migration, and performance tuning.
• Veeam Administration: Hands-on experience managing Veeam Backup & Replication for Hyper-V/VMware, including SOBR with immutable object storage (3-2-1-1-0), app-aware backups, GFS/copy jobs, and tested DR recovery using Instant VM Recovery and SureBackup.
• Storage Networking: Strong working knowledge of SAN, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel environments, including multipathing design and troubleshooting.
• Azure Exposure: Understanding of Azure virtualization, networking, and hybrid integration concepts.
• Analytical Skills: Proven ability to diagnose performance and availability issues across compute, storage, and backup layers.
• Project Management: Demonstrated experience leading infrastructure initiatives through planning, implementation, and documentation phases.
• Communication: Clear communicator able to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Application Instructions

Please submit your resume by 6:00 p.m. MT on Friday, October 31st. Applications will not be accepted after this time. DMNS reserves the right to close the position prior to this date. Applications may only be accepted electronically via the Museum's website.