Senior Analyst; Systems Engineer

Position: Senior Analyst (Systems Engineer)
## Senior Analyst (Systems Engineer)
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R-12154## Position Information
** Hiring Manager:
** Vice President
** Department:
** Technology Solutions  
** Department Overview
** The Technology Solutions (“TS”) Department is responsible for designing and delivering state of the art technology solutions that are designed to create efficiency, mitigate risk and grow revenue for the Firm. Technology Solutions is also responsible for defining, managing and executing a robust Cyber Security program following the NIST Cyber Security Framework. Technology Solutions focuses on technical excellence through innovative application designs, robust data integration and analytics, high availability infrastructure and gold level service for our key stakeholders with information security embedded throughout.

Critical functions within Technology Solutions include Project Management, Vendor Management, Business Analysis, Enterprise Data Governance and Stewardship, Application Development and 3rd Party Integration and Strategic and Secure Infrastructure and Operations. The Technology Solutions Department collaborates closely with Firm leadership and business unit heads to develop plans in line with business objectives.
** Position Responsibilities
** This hands-on engineering role will design, automate, secure and operate Microsoft-centric cloud and hybrid infrastructure while providing technical leadership for modernization, resiliency and operational improvement initiatives. A successful candidate will be comfortable moving between architecture, implementation, troubleshooting, documentation and stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
* Designing, building and operating Azure infrastructure across compute, storage, networking, identity and platform services with strong attention to availability, performance, security and cost
* Providing senior-level administration and engineering for Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online, One Drive and related Microsoft 365 services
* Administering Microsoft Entra , Conditional Access, enterprise applications, managed identities, authentication methods and Privileged Identity Management using least-privilege principles
* Engineering and supporting Azure Virtual Desktop host pools, application delivery, profile management, image lifecycle, monitoring, performance and resiliency
* Supporting Microsoft Intune, Autopilot, Windows Server and the transition toward cloud-native management including reduction of legacy SCCM and Group Policy dependencies
* Developing production-quality Power Shell and Azure CLI automation; use Git-based workflows, code review and controlled promotion across environments
* Using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Defender tooling and KQL to detect, diagnose and remediate service health, security and performance issues
* Designing and testing backup, recovery, high availability and multi-region patterns using Azure-native services and Veeam where appropriate
* Supporting Azure App Service, Functions, Logic Apps, Key Vault, private endpoints, API connectivity, Power BI gateways and related application infrastructure
* Partnering with networking teams to manage and enhance Azure connectivity, private access, segmentation and the Infoblox cloud DNS environment
* Building systems aligned with NIST and CIS expectations, remediate vulnerability findings, maintain certificates / secrets and produce audit-ready technical evidence
* Participating in the Infrastructure on-call rotation, leading response to critical incidents, performing root-cause analysis and documenting, automating and monitoring recurring operational work
* Creating and maintaining support articles, operating…