Sr. Systems Engineer

About the role

The (Senior) System Engineer reports to the Manager, IT System Operations and is responsible for maintaining, monitoring, and optimizing Digital Realty's global systems infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support global IT systems infrastructure to ensure high availability, reliability, and performance.
• Deploy, manage, and optimize Microsoft Windows, VMware, Azure, AWS, and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Manage infrastructure lifecycle activities, including operating system upgrades, patching, hardware refreshes, and technology modernization initiatives.
• Maintain backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions to ensure data integrity and recoverability.
• Monitor infrastructure health and proactively identify, troubleshoot, and resolve performance, capacity, and operational issues.
• Ensure compliance with IT policies and security standards, including patching, anti-virus controls, vulnerability remediation, operating system updates, and system hardening.
• Evaluate, implement, and maintain infrastructure management, automation, monitoring, and reporting tools to improve operational efficiency.
• Provide systems engineering expertise for business initiatives, audits, infrastructure projects, architecture reviews, and technical assessments.
• Participate in an after-hours on-call rotation and provide support for critical incidents and operational needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong experience administering Microsoft technologies, including Windows Server, Azure, Active Directory, and enterprise systems management.
• Strong knowledge of VMware infrastructure and virtualized environments.
• Experience supporting cloud platforms, including Azure and AWS.
• Experience supporting storage technologies, including SAN infrastructure.
• Understanding of infrastructure security, vulnerability management, patch management, compliance frameworks, and risk management practices.
• Microsoft certification required; VMware Certified Professional (VCP) certification preferred.
• Experience working in complex international and multi-vendor environments.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and critical-thinking abilities with a proactive and quality-focused approach.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role.
• Technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineers within the region.
• Technical expertise in Microsoft technologies, VMware, and cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of infrastructure security, compliance, and risk management.

Skills

• Technical leadership and mentoring.
• Systems engineering expertise.
• Cloud platform management (Azure, AWS).
• Infrastructure management and automation.
• Operational excellence through automation and tooling.
• Collaboration and stakeholder management.
• Problem-solving and critical thinking.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance.
• 401(k) match.
• Disability benefits.
• Wellness and education benefits.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Paid time off.
• Holidays.

Pay

$120,000 - $140,000 annually.

Schedule

Full-time.