Sr IT Systems Engineer

About the role

The ideal candidate will have experience designing and managing enterprise virtualization platforms in highly available environments, strong knowledge of enterprise storage architecture, data protection, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning, and expertise administering and optimizing Windows Server infrastructure and core platform services.

Responsibilities

• Designs, integrates, enhances, and secures the server, storage, network, virtualization, compliance, process automation, and application software infrastructure and associated administration and maintenance plans across a complex stack of on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud infrastructures.
• Assists, mentors, and provides technical direction, leadership, guidance, and support for Systems Engineers and other IT staff.
• Provides direction and guidance for technical information collection, planning, analyses, and standards development for the administration and maintenance processes and prioritizations for the enterprise infrastructure.
• Analyzes, forecasts, and presents to IT management reports on enterprise infrastructure capacity and performance for regular reviews ensuring level agreements are achieved.
• Creates and approves technical document libraries and presentation of technical documentation that provides IT staff and management the details of the enterprise infrastructure in adherence to cyber security, regulatory, and Enterprise Architectural standards.
• Reviews and guides research of technical information relating to changes in Information Technology-related disciplines, regulations, trends, cyber security, and infrastructure management.
• Provides recommendations for changes or enhancements to IT management and Enterprise Architecture.
• Develops and manages execution and reporting of results of all scheduled disaster recovery implementations, maintenance and testing activities ensuring that the applications meet RPO/RTO, cyber security, and regulatory requirements.
• Reviews and approves development, organization, scheduling and presentation of formal/informal training and documentation regarding enterprise infrastructure processes and procedures.
• Maintains a working relationship with outside organizations, partners, and other resources to enhance the IT infrastructure and assure the infrastructure meets service level agreements and changing demands.
• Organizes and directs the efforts of internal IT staff or external technical or vendor support teams to provide the highest levels of design, integration, implementation support, and problem resolution activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely related field and four years of experience in computer programming and operating systems analysis; or equivalent.
• Ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers in order to obtain and/or provide explanations and/or information on technical concepts to individuals.
• Ability to perform analyses involving ratios, percentages, and simple statistical methods.
• High level of computer skills to use various software packages as well as a familiarity with hardware configurations to perform systems administration.

Physical Demands

• Ability to lift 47 pounds from the ground to 5 inches.
• Ability to lift 25 pounds from 56 inches to 72 inches.
• Ability to lift 25 pounds from the ground to 57 inches.
• Ability to lift and carry 20 pounds.
• Ability to ascend/descend 8 rungs on a ladder.
• Ability to bend, stoop, squat, kneel, and/or crouch.
• Ability to generate 35-foot pounds of upward force.

Work Conditions

Works in an office environment, requiring occasionally performing activities including, but not limited to, bending, stooping, grasping, reaching, twisting, turning and/or lifting.