As the IT Systems Engineer, you will plan and design the organization’s IT infrastructure, including the implementation and design of hardware and software both on-prem and in the cloud.
This role also:
• Analyzes, develops, modifies, tests, and maintains the networking and compute infrastructure.
• Verifies and validates systems and ensures systems meet internal and external requirements.
• Ensures system availability meets or exceeds KPIs and SLAs, while continuously enhancing system performance and reliability.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for design, implementation, patching, and management of data center and cloud technologies including, Azure, Nutanix, and VMware.
• Responsible for design, implementation, patching, and management of networking, including LAN, WAN, wireless, Internet and virtual networks.
• Ensure uptime of critical business systems and infrastructure through monitoring and timely remediation of infrastructure issues.
• Responsible for implementation, patching and management of security appliances, including firewalls and information security services.
• Provide advanced troubleshooting and recommendations for improvements on existing and new systems.
• Protect data assets and ensure back-up procedures meet or exceed our policies.
• Provide high-level design and support for disaster recovery of key systems.
• Lead projects and assist other teams with IT initiatives.
• Identify issues, evaluate trends, and anticipate requirements.
• Ensure adherence to all regulatory compliance processes and requirements, including but not limited to Sarbanes-Oxley and comparable regulations.
• Design and support the monitoring, alerting and automation infrastructure for critical business systems and infrastructure.
• Responsible for user and identity management, in particular within Azure Active Directory, including group polices, OU structures, and domain services.
• Responsible for User Endpoint management, including PC and application deployment.
• Maintain organization's effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing infrastructure technologies.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by: attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, benchmarking state-of-the-art practices, participating in professional societies.
• Provide technical expertise, documentation, and training to other team members and IT teams.
• Any other task assigned by supervisor or management.
Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience as a Systems Engineer in a medium to high volume environment.
• Experience in designing and managing hypervisor technologies including Nutanix and VMware.
• Experience in designing and managing backup appliances, storage arrays, and server systems.
• Experience deploying and automating virtual machines both on-prem and in cloud infrastructure.
• Experience managing networking technologies, including LAN, WLAN. WAN and Internet and virtual networking preferably in Azure and Nutanix environments.
• Advanced knowledge of current cloud and on-prem compute technologies, hypervisors, networking, storage, and backups.
• Proficient in designing compute environments to meet best practices.
• Solid understanding of automation tools and deployment methods.
• Specialist on complex and technical business matters relating to networking and compute infrastructure.
• May assume a lead role on projects and able to work effectively in an individual or team environment.
• Must be self-motivated and able to take a project from beginning to completion.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Bachelor's degree in computer-oriented technical discipline or equivalent experience.