Enterprise Systems Engineer

About the role

The Position: As a key member of SBCERA’s Information Services team, the Enterprise Systems Engineer is a senior technical role responsible for the architecture, deployment, and lifecycle management of SBCERA’s on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-based enterprise systems. This position is both hands-on and strategic—leading system design, driving security posture, and providing escalated technical support to ensure our mission-critical infrastructure meets current and future business needs. The ideal candidate brings intellectual curiosity, technical rigor, and proactive problem-solving to elevate system reliability, performance, and security.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage scalable, cost-effective, and performance-based enterprise IT infrastructure, including, but not limited to, servers, networks, storage, and cloud solutions.
• Design, implement, and manage scalable, cost-effective, and performance-based on-premises data centers and cloud-based services, including, but not limited to, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Design, implement, and manage enterprise backup, high availability (HA), scalability, and disaster recovery (DR) strategies and solutions that ensure failover mechanisms and redundancies are in place for mission-critical systems and applications.
• Design, implement, and manage enterprise operating system environments, including, but not limited to, Windows, Windows Server, Linux, and macOS.
• Design, implement, and manage scalable, cost-effective, and performance-based virtualized environments, including but not limited to, VMware, Hyper-V, Azure Local, Nutanix, and KVM.
• Design, implement, and manage scalable, cost-effective, and performance-based enterprise storage solutions, including but not limited to SAN, NAS, and cloud storage.
• Design, implement, and manage scalable, cost-effective, and performance-based workloads across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Design, implement, and manage scalable, cost-effective, and performance-based hybrid cloud solutions, including, but not limited to, AWS Outposts, Azure Arc, and Google Anthos.
• Design, implement, and manage scalable, cost-effective, and performance-based monitoring solutions, including, but not limited to, SolarWinds, Splunk, Datadog, Nagios, AWS CloudWatch, and Azure Monitor for enterprise-wide observability.
• Provide backup support for the enterprise networks, including, but not limited to, routers, switches, firewalls, security appliances, and Zero Trust Security.
• Provide support in troubleshooting complex hardware, software, and network issues within the enterprise environments.
• Provide backup support, monitor and respond to cybersecurity threats, and ensure compliance with industry regulations, including but not limited to GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO 27001.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• A typical way to obtain the knowledge, skills and abilities would be: Education: A bachelor’s degree in computer science, or a closely related field.
• Experience: At least four (4) years of performing server administration.
• Desired Certifications: Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate, Microsoft 365 Certified Fundamentals, Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert, Microsoft 365 Certified: Modern Desktop Administrator Associate, Microsoft 365 Certified: Messaging Administrator Associate, Microsoft 365 Certified: Security Administrator Associate, Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, Microsoft Server 2019 or higher certification (various).

Benefits

• SBCERA Offers a Generous Benefits Package Including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Long-Term Disability (LTD), Short Term Disability (STD), Dependent Care Assistance Plan (DCAP), Colonial Life Voluntary Benefits, United Pet Care Employee Assistance Program (EAP), 529 Education Savings Plan – Scholar Share, Retirement – Participation in SBCERA’s pension plan, Deferred Compensation457(b) Plan: Biweekly employer match equal to 1 times the employee's contribution up to 1% of the employee's biweekly base salary upon hire, 401(k) Plan: Employees are eligible to participate.