For more than a century, Ben E. Keith Company has been a leader in fine food and premium beverage distribution, and we strive to consistently exceed our customers’ expectations.

Our Food Division is a complete broad line multi-state distributor, and our Beverage Division operates throughout the state of Texas as a proud distributor of Anheuser-Busch products, craft and import beer brands, spirits, and wine.

We are dedicated to the growth and success of our business, our customers, and our employees—continuing our commitment to delivering quality since 1906.

Position Summary and Responsibilities:

Reporting directly the Director of IT Infrastructure, this candidate will be responsible for provisioning, deploying, administering, monitoring current Microsoft Windows Server and Services platforms including cloud technologies. The Platform Engineer must be highly technical and willing to continue to grow in skillset. The successful candidate will be a self-starter with an expert foundation in Microsoft operating systems.

• Primary focus of the position is supporting the Microsoft infrastructure for test and production applications
• Responsible for servers, F5 load balancers, SAN, cloud and virtual system environments
• Expected to build, maintain and document our intel based infrastructure and associated storage components
• Will handle acquisition, configuration, monitoring and preventative maintenance
• Daily responsibilities include supporting application and operation teams with real-time production/test environments

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience
• 5+ years direct systems administration work experience preferred
• Effective written and oral communication skills; ability to utilize interpersonal skills to work with team members and business units within the company.
• Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly terminology.
• Dell chassis system experience
• Avamar – Backup/Restore
• Unity/Data domain
• Disaster Recovery Planning/Documenting/Implementing
• Extensive experience required working with VMware virtual environments utilizing vSphere, Operations Manager, and vMotion
• Proficient in Nutanix administration
• Experience with Cloud services and highly available solutions AWS/Azure/Azure-Stack/Nutanix is a plus
• Microsoft Exchange environment on-premise and Office365 cloud
• Working technical knowledge creating and editing PowerShell, VBScript, and batch files.to efficiently perform and/or automate systems administration tasks
• Must be able to work on call as needed to support business needs

Ben E. Keith (BEK) Company is one of the largest food and beverage distributors in the United States. We are a family-owned business with a long-standing tradition of supporting the diverse communities in which we live and work. Our competitive employee benefits provide health and financial protection to our employees and their families.

We have sought to create an environment in which the contributions of each employee at Ben E. Keith are fully valued. This means more than simply treating one another with respect; it also means considering how all our people can positively impact the quality of the decisions we make about our business.

Here at Ben E. Keith, we recognize that our workforce reflects the increasingly diverse nature of our society, and we want to do all we can to take advantage of that diversity with both our external and internal customers. We believe our differences are also our strengths and we want to do all we can to use those strengths to find more creative solutions for the business challenges we face. Ben E. Keith is an equal employment opportunity, affirmative action employer. VEVRAA Federal Contractor