Sr. Systems Engineer

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Infrastructure – Cloud Architecture /Full Time /Hybrid The Freedom Pay Commerce Platform is the technology of choice for many of the largest companies across the globe in retail, hospitality, lodging, gaming, sports and entertainment, food service, education, healthcare and financial services.  Freedom Pay’s technology has been purposely built to deliver rock solid performance in the highly complex environment of global commerce.

The company maintains a world-class security environment and was first to earn the coveted validation by the PCI Security Standards Council against Point-to-Point Encryption with EMV standard in North America. Freedom Pay’s robust solutions across payments, security, identity and data analytics are available in-store, online and on-mobile and are supported by rapid API adoption. The award winning Freedom Pay Commerce Platform operates on a single, unified technology stack across multiple continents allowing enterprises to deliver a consistent, repeatable experience on a global scale.  

Freedom Pay is a fast paced, high growth company with a great culture with competitive benefits and compensation with a business casual atmosphere.

Freedom Pay is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer who has extensive experience with hypervisors, virtual machines, and hybrid cloud data center environments. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining on‑premises data center infrastructure such as physical and virtual compute, load balancers, operating systems, and related hardware.

This position participates in an engineering escalation on‑call rotation.

This position is a hybrid role, with occasional on‑site work in the Philadelphia area (must be currently local to Philadelphia, relocation assistance not available)

Primary Responsibilities:

Design, deploy, and manage enterprise hypervisor environments, including Broadcom vSphere ESXi, across multiple data centers

Build, configure, and support Windows Servers across physical, virtual, and cloud platforms

Maintain hardware and bare metal life cycles by continuously reviewing and applying firmware and hypervisor updates

Respond on‑site to data center incidents, including routine visits for preventive or standard maintenance

Develop and maintain diagrams, runbooks, infrastructure documentation, and disaster recovery playbooks

Collaborate with network, security, and application Dev Ops teams to design, deploy, and maintain cohesive, integrated solutions

Drive continuous improvement in monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, MIS, or a related field; or relative hands-on experience demonstrating advanced proficiency in the field5+ years of proven expertise with Broadcom (VMware) vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter at scale5+ years of hands-on experience with bare metal servers including the remote management, firmware and hardware updates, and advanced configuration management using tools such as intelligent Lights Out (iLO) and One View Advanced  troubleshooting of hypervisor and virtual machine performance including the ability to review kernel, device, and operating system metrics and an ability to make informed decisions based on key performance indicators

Expert‑level administration of Windows servers, Active Directory, DNS, and related services such as NTP, GPO, and PKIAdvanced understanding of physical networking infrastructure, and firewalls including TCP/IP, UDP, VLAN, firewall rules; an ability to communicate systems connectivity requirements

Proficient with physical and virtual load balancers, F5 experience a plus Proficient with cloud computing environments such as Azure or AWSExcellent communication,…