Systems Engineer III

Position Details

Position Title:

Systems Engineer III (Enterprise Infrastructure and Cloud Engineer)

Location:

Richardson
Salary: $85,000 - $90,000 monthly

Start Date:

02/16/2026

We are seeking a driven and talented Enterprise Infrastructure and Cloud Engineer to join a dynamic team with a wide breadth of technical knowledge as a Systems Engineer III. This individual will bring a passion for technology, a competent virtualization skill set, and an ability to deploy and configure production-ready solutions, services, and tools for our IT workloads using best practices and automation wherever possible.

Familiarity with AI-driven automation and serverless architecture is highly desirable, with an emphasis on foundational knowledge and a willingness to learn and grow in these areas. The position plays a pivotal part in the organization’s Infrastructure Services, with opportunities to be involved at all stages of projects-governance, development, and operations. The engineer will serve as project manager for enterprise solutions, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, recommending best-fit solutions, and monitoring emerging technologies.

Bachelor’s degree and four (4) years of related experience or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be considered.

• BS degree with minimum 7 years of experience working directly with complex environments.
• Enterprise architectural understanding from compute resources, networking, security, data protection, and data governance from design to deployment and complete system lifecycle.
• Cloud certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect).
• Experience with cloud deployment, database architecture, networking, enterprise storage, data protection, and security architecture (EC2, ECS, VPC, S3, Dynamo
  
  DB, RDS, Azure blob, Storage networking protocols, SMB/NFS File, etc.).
• 3+ years of experience in infrastructure, data center, or storage engineering.
• Experience with Windows, Linux operating systems, system hardware, virtualization, cloud, containerized environments, basic networking, storage, and data protection.
• Experience with scripting and automated processes.
• Experience with enterprise infrastructure design, development, and integration.
• Familiarity with security practices and technologies.
• Project management experience, including planning and execution of infrastructure projects.
• Strong documentation skills and attention to detail.
• Experience with deployment and functionality of container services (Docker, Kubernetes, Container Service).
• Understanding of high-performance storage, computing, and parallel file systems.
• Experience working in an educational research environment.
• Solid understanding of software design, software development, IP networking, Linux, Agile development, SCRUM, application/system lifecycle management, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, GCP, VMware, Nutanix, and Rubrik.
• Experience with Ansible/ AWX, Terraform, Cloud Formation, and/or Power Shell leveraging an automation approach.
• Ability to coordinate efforts of junior staff and manage projects independently.
• Good troubleshooting methodology and awareness of industry standards.
• Analytical in troubleshooting complex issues and attaining root cause analysis.
• Experience in cloud cost optimization and managing workloads in public and private cloud environments.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation) and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation.
• Hands-on experience with AI-driven solutions, including Generative AI platforms and agentic AI workflows for IT operations.
• Experience designing and deploying serverless architectures on AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or similar platforms.
• Expertise in enterprise backup, disaster recovery, and data protection technologies (e.g., Rubrik, Veeam, cloud-native backup).

To the extent this position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Section 117.001(2) of the Texas Business and Commerce Code, the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the critical…