Sr. Systems Engineer

Information Technology
- Technology Operations

Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering

Exempt

Salt Lake City, Utah

Vice President of Information Technology

$,000 annually

The Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for the design, administration, security, reliability, and ongoing improvement of the company's cloud and on-premises infrastructure. This hands-on role provides senior-level technical ownership across Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Entra , Active Directory, VMware, Windows Server, storage, backup, disaster recovery, and related enterprise infrastructure. The Senior Systems Engineer maintains highly available and secure systems, resolves complex infrastructure issues, oversees the company's disaster recovery program, and supports the continued modernization of the company's technology environment.

• Administer and support Microsoft Azure infrastructure and services.
• Manage Azure virtual machines, storage, identity integrations, and related cloud resources.
• Support the migration of appropriate workloads from on-premises infrastructure to Azure.
• Monitor Azure availability, performance, security, capacity, and cost.
• Implement infrastructure standards, automation, and operational improvements.

• Administer and support Microsoft 365 services and their integration with the enterprise infrastructure environment.
• Administer Microsoft Entra  on-premises Active Directory.
• Manage users, groups, enterprise applications, authentication, and identity-related services.
• Maintain hybrid identity integration between Active Directory, Entra , Microsoft 365, and Azure.
• Administer Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, certificates, directory synchronization, and related Windows infrastructure services.
• Support multifactor authentication, Conditional Access, privileged access, and identity-security initiatives.
• Troubleshoot complex authentication, authorization, directory synchronization, and identity-related issues.

• Administer VMware vSphere and ESXi infrastructure.
• Manage virtual machines, hosts, clusters, storage, capacity, patching, and upgrades.
• Troubleshoot virtualization performance and availability issues.
• Maintain lifecycle, capacity, and upgrade plans for virtualization infrastructure.

• Administer Windows Server environments and core infrastructure services.
• Manage server provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Maintain enterprise storage, backup, recovery, monitoring, and related infrastructure technologies.
• Monitor infrastructure availability, performance, capacity, and system health.
• Maintain current system configurations, architecture diagrams, operating procedures, and support documentation.

• Own and oversee the company's IT disaster recovery plan and supporting technologies.
• Maintain documented recovery procedures for critical infrastructure, systems, and services.
• Ensure backup and recovery solutions are appropriately configured, monitored, and maintained.
• Coordinate and conduct periodic disaster recovery testing and document results, gaps, and remediation activities.
• Maintain appropriate recovery strategies for both cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
• Partner with IT leadership, security, application teams, and business stakeholders to ensure disaster recovery capabilities align with business continuity requirements.
• Identify infrastructure resiliency risks and recommend improvements to reduce downtime and data-loss exposure.

• Maintain secure infrastructure configurations and system-hardening standards.
• Support vulnerability remediation, patch management, privileged-access controls, and security initiatives.
• Respond to infrastructure incidents and perform root-cause analysis.
• Ensure systems remain current, supportable, appropriately monitored, and protected.
• Partner with security resources to address infrastructure vulnerabilities and security risks.

• Design and implement infrastructure solutions supporting business and technology initiatives.
• Evaluate infrastructure technologies and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Provide technical leadership for infrastructure upgrades, migrations, acquisitions, and new-location…