Systems Engineer

About Us

Company Overview

Unified Door & Hardware Group (UDHG) is a premier provider of commercial door, frame, and architectural hardware solutions serving customers across North America. UDHG supports a wide range of construction and architectural projects, delivering specialized expertise, professional installation, and reliable service to commercial, institutional, and multi-family markets.

As part of Foundation Building Materials (FBM), a leading construction materials distribution company, UDHG operates within a broader organization that combines scale, specialty expertise, and a customer-first mindset. Together, FBM and UDHG’s 8,000+ team members are committed to operational excellence, innovation, and employee development. As the organization continues to grow and evolve, we are investing in strong, forward-thinking talent to support our long-term success.

Position Overview

The Systems Engineer is responsible for the analysis, design, security, and long-term operation of the systems that support UDHG’s corporate and manufacturing locations. The position works with business users, IT, cybersecurity, and plant personnel to understand system requirements and develop technical solutions that meet those needs.

This position serves as the technical owner for assigned infrastructure platforms. The Systems Engineer evaluates technical options, develops system specifications, establishes standards, and makes recommendations concerning architecture, security, capacity, availability, and disaster recovery.

The primary focus of the position is infrastructure engineering and systems analysis. Routine help desk tickets, basic end-user support, printer maintenance, and equipment installation are handled by Level 1 and Level 2 support resources. The Systems Engineer becomes involved when an issue requires advanced analysis, a system change, or a permanent technical solution.

Key Responsibilities

Systems Analysis and Design

• Meet with business, IT, cybersecurity, and personnel to understand operational needs and translate them into system requirements.
• Analyze existing systems and identify changes needed to improve security, availability, capacity, performance, or supportability.
• Design and document infrastructure solutions involving servers, virtualization, storage, cloud services, identity, networking, backups, and disaster recovery.
• Develop system specifications, architecture diagrams, configuration standards, testing plans, implementation plans, and rollback procedures.
• Evaluate technical alternatives and recommend solutions based on business need, security risk, cost, system compatibility, and long-term support requirements.
• Test and modify infrastructure systems before changes are placed into production.
• Determine the technical approach for assigned infrastructure projects within established IT and security policies.

Infrastructure Engineering

• Design, configure, and maintain Windows Server environments and related infrastructure services.
• Serve as the technical owner for Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, file services, and other assigned Windows services.
• Design and maintain VMware ESXi and Proxmox virtualization environments, including virtual machines, clusters, storage, replication, and capacity planning.
• Plan and lead server, operating‑system, virtualization, storage, and infrastructure upgrades.
• Review system performance, capacity, backup results, security events, and availability trends to identify risks before they interrupt operations.
• Develop and maintain technical standards for server configuration, virtualization, patching, backups, access, monitoring, and recovery.
• Design and test backup, restoration, disaster‑recovery, and business‑continuity…