Senior Systems Engineer

In this role you lead the hardest escalations and projects, set technical standards and mentor other engineers. You also explain technical risk to business leaders.

This is one of the roles Velocity Technologies recruits for year-round. The job may be with Velocity, or with an organization in the Phoenix area that we recruit for. Most positions are hybrid. We confirm the employer, pay, schedule and benefits with you before any interview.

• Lead escalations involving Microsoft 365, Entra , Intune, Active Directory, virtualization, servers, backup and recovery, firewalls and networks.
• Write standards for identity, endpoints, servers, backup, firewalls, documentation and hardware lifecycle.
• Give business leaders practical recommendations on risk, budget and sequencing.
• Review project plans and repeat ticket patterns, and fix root causes.
• Mentor engineers and help desk staff through runbooks, technical reviews and feedback on escalations.

• You troubleshoot at a senior level across Microsoft cloud, Windows Server, identity, endpoints, backup and networks.
• You have made technical recommendations that business leaders acted on.
• You have supported several business environments, at an MSP or as a consultant.
• You lead other engineers and still keep your documentation current.

Useful but not required: building standards, onboarding checklists or engineering reviews; advanced Intune, Defender, Entra , Veeam or Datto, Sonic Wall or Fortinet, VMware or Hyper‑V, or Azure;
Microsoft 365 Administrator, Azure Administrator or Security+. Equivalent experience counts.

$103,000 to $142,000 a year.

The hiring organization sets the exact pay within this range. Benefits depend on the employer, and we confirm them with you before any interview.

• A phone call with Velocity about your experience, the role and the pay.
• If it looks like a fit, we tell you who the employer is and confirm pay, schedule and benefits.
• Interviews with the hiring organization, which may be Velocity.

On the first call, expect to talk through questions like these:

• A standards change you rolled out across several environments.
• How you turn technical debt into a recommendation leadership can approve.
• The signs that a repeat ticket needs a project instead of another fix.

Velocity Technologies is an equal opportunity employer and recruiting partner. We consider every applicant, and refer candidates to employers, without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

If you need an accommodation at any point in applying or interviewing, email careers or call . We will work with you, keep your request confidential, and asking will not count against you.

We contact candidates by phone or from a velocity tech.org email address. We never make job offers by text message or social media, and we never ask candidates to pay for anything or buy equipment.