Description:
The Senior Systems Engineer will be responsible for implementing, maintaining, and monitoring our enterprise environment. The role will include research, analysis, selection, planning, and implementation of complex solutions ranging from software and service stacks to entire datacenter roll outs and migrations.
The Senior Systems Engineer will bring valuable perspectives, derived from deep professional experiences, with the ability to convey benefits and detractors of any solution offered. You will bring a strong understanding of monitoring methodologies and solid documentation practices. We are looking for an experienced systems engineer who has a desire to take ownership of aspects of an environment and use their own curiosity and commitment to incremental improvements to raise the bar on our service offerings.
Duties include but are not limited to:
- Collaborate closely with Operations team members and the wider IT Dept to offer solutions to
- business needs
- Identify and research high-value improvements to physical and virtual infrastructure
- Implement and maintain VMWare, Active Directory, SANs and other components that support a on-premises enterprise environment
- Work with the IT Dept and business to develop and maintain backup and recovery strategies
- Implement, maintain and tune monitoring tools to provide validated alerts when needed and limit alert storms and fatigue
- Develop methods to facilitate non-disruptive update and upgrade paths for enterprise systems
- Ability to automate where possible using various tools (Scripting, power automate/logic apps, Azure functions)
- Stay current and knowledgeable of new technologies and process within enterprise IT and manufacturing spaces
- Exceptional communicator who can collaborate with stakeholders to gather and understand business related needs
- Develop and maintain process-related documentation
- Troubleshoot and support escalations and incidents
- Following Information Technology policies and industry best practices
About You
The successful candidate will have the following:
- Minimum of 7 years’ work experience in operations and infrastructure
- 4+ years of experience working in public cloud, M365 and similar technologies
- 2+ years of experience as a senior team member executing complex projects and deliverables
- Extensive knowledge and experience with enterprise hardware and virtualization stacks (Cisco UCS, VMWare, SANs, ISCSI networks)
- Deep understanding on VMware’s platform (VCF preferred)
- Experience with backup platforms, methodologies and validation techniques (Veeam preferred)
- Strong knowledge maintaining Active Directory domains and Entra ID environments
- Solid knowledge of networking technologies and concepts
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills