Manager Systems Engineering

Leadership role responsible for the reliability, performance, security, and lifecycle management of enterprise Linux server, virtualization, storage, backup, and disaster recovery services. The role leads a team of systems engineers while remaining actively engaged in architecture, troubleshooting, operational readiness, major changes, and recovery activities. This leader partners across Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, Application, Database, and Business Continuity teams to deliver stable, scalable, and resilient technology services.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of systems engineers and technical contractors; establish clear priorities, operating standards, accountability, and growth plans.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership across Linux physical and virtual server environments, enterprise compute platforms, shared storage, data protection, replication, and disaster recovery.
• Own service health, capacity, availability, performance, and lifecycle planning for the supported infrastructure portfolio.
• Guide architecture and engineering decisions for new solutions, platform modernization, migrations, upgrades, consolidation, and retirement of legacy infrastructure.
• Lead complex incident response and problem management efforts, including root‑cause analysis, corrective actions, and communication with technical and business stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain operational standards for monitoring, patching, configuration, vulnerability remediation, change control, documentation, and support readiness.
• Develop and regularly exercise backup, restoration, failover, and disaster recovery capabilities; document outcomes, risks, dependencies, and corrective actions.
• Partner with application and database teams to translate workload requirements into appropriate compute, storage, protection, availability, and recovery designs.
• Drive automation and repeatable engineering practices that reduce manual effort, configuration drift, and operational risk.
• Manage vendor and service‑provider relationships, including solution evaluation, support escalation, renewals, proposals, statements of work, and service‑level performance.
• Build and manage capital and operating plans, forecasts, licensing needs, maintenance requirements, and infrastructure investment recommendations.
• Lead cross‑functional projects with competing priorities and communicate status, risks, decisions, and trade‑offs to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Ensure supported platforms align with company security, audit, regulatory, and governance requirements.
• Participate in scheduled maintenance, escalations, and critical recovery events when leadership or advanced technical support is required.

• Progressive experience engineering and supporting enterprise infrastructure in complex, highly available environments, including substantial hands‑on Linux systems experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical teams, mentoring engineers, assigning work, managing priorities, and delivering results through others.
• Strong working knowledge of physical and virtual compute, enterprise Linux administration, storage concepts, backup and recovery, replication, and disaster recovery principles.
• Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting business‑critical infrastructure across geographically separated or hybrid environments.
• Proven ability to lead major incidents, diagnose complex cross‑platform issues, and translate findings into sustainable corrective actions.
• Experience with infrastructure lifecycle planning, capacity forecasting, performance management, patching, security remediation, and technology refresh programs.
• Experience developing and validating recovery plans, including restoration…