Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer Job#: 3056505

Job Description:

Position Summary The Senior Systems Engineer designs, implements, and improves the organization’s Microsoft-centered infrastructure across on-premises, hybrid, and Azure environments. The role owns technical work through its full lifecycle: from requirements, design, and capacity planning to implementation, validation, operational handoff, and eventual refresh or retirement. It emphasizes engineering, automation, reliability, and secure operation rather than routine account or ticket administration.

The engineer works independently on complex infrastructure changes and incidents, coordinates with internal teams and vendors, and serves as a senior technical escalation point. The position focuses on core infrastructure platforms while partnering with network, security, application, and service teams where their services intersect.

Key Responsibilities Infrastructure design and lifecycle
· Translate business and technical requirements into supportable infrastructure designs; evaluate dependencies, capacity, resilience, security, lifecycle, and cost before implementation.
· Lead technical research, platform evaluation, implementation planning, procurement specifications, deployment, validation, operational handoff, refresh, and retirement for assigned infrastructure.
· Develop change, test, rollback, recovery, and maintenance plans for production work; coordinate implementation with affected teams and vendors.
· Maintain clear architecture diagrams, configuration standards, inventories, and operating procedures for systems within the role’s scope.

Microsoft server and identity services
· Engineer and maintain Windows Server services, including secure configuration, patching, upgrades, performance and capacity analysis, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management; use Azure Arc for centralized management where applicable.
· Maintain Active Directory Domain Services and its dependencies, including domain controllers, replication, sites and services, Group Policy, DNS integration, trusts, authentication, service accounts, delegated access, and recovery readiness.
· Support Microsoft Entra  hybrid identity services, including synchronization, authentication dependencies, privileged access considerations, and troubleshooting across on-premises and cloud systems.
· Engineer and support hybrid Exchange and Exchange Online infrastructure, including mail flow, connectors, certificates, recipient and directory dependencies, planned changes, and advanced troubleshooting.

Compute, storage, backup, and recovery
· Engineer and support Dell server and Azure Stack HCI infrastructure, including compute, cluster health, firmware and driver lifecycle, capacity, performance, and vendor coordination.
· Maintain Windows Server Failover Clusters and associated SAN/storage services, including cluster dependencies, storage presentation, multipathing concepts, quorum, patching, monitoring, and recovery.
· Own Veeam backup and recovery engineering, including job and repository design, scale-out repositories and cloud capacity tiers, monitoring, security considerations, restore testing, and recovery documentation.
· Validate recoverability through planned restore and recovery exercises and address gaps identified through testing or incidents.

Azure, applications, and connectivity
· Engineer and support Azure-hosted remote desktop, including their identity, network, security, availability, performance, monitoring, and cost dependencies.
· Support Windows file and print services, including permissions, availability, capacity, migration, secure access, and recovery planning.
· Provide infrastructure-level support for IIS and SQL Server hosted services, including Windows and SQL…