Lead Systems Engineer

Bowman has an opportunity for a Lead Systems Engineer to join our team remotely.

At Bowman, we believe in creating opportunities for aspiring people to thrive and achieve ambitious goals. That’s why a career at Bowman is more than a job. It is an opportunity to be part of a diverse and engaged community of professionals, to be treated as a respected and valued member of a motivated team and to be empowered to do exceptional work that advances the best interest of everyone involved.

We recognize the importance of creating a work environment that is both rewarding to our employees and supportive of our unwavering commitment to provide unparalleled service to our clients.

Provide advanced systems engineering expertise to design, implement, optimize, secure, and support the company’s enterprise infrastructure across 80+ sites in North America. Serve as a technical subject matter expert for systems architecture, cloud technologies, virtualization, automation, and infrastructure modernization initiatives. Lead complex projects and provide technical guidance to junior team members while ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of enterprise systems.

• Work independently with limited supervision, exercising considerable judgment in the application of advanced systems engineering principles and practices.

• Receive broad objectives and determine appropriate methods, solutions, and priorities to achieve desired outcomes. Serve as a technical resource and mentor to junior staff, providing guidance, training, and quality review of work products.

• May lead technical project teams and coordinate efforts across functional groups.

• Lead the planning, design, implementation, optimization, and support of enterprise infrastructure solutions.

• Drive infrastructure modernization efforts, including cloud adoption, automation, security enhancements, and systems standardization.

• Partner with business leaders, vendors, and IT teams to ensure infrastructure solutions align with organizational goals and operational requirements.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and make recommendations that improve scalability, security, performance, and efficiency.

• Support enterprise-wide initiatives and strategic technology roadmaps.

• Design, implement, configure, secure, and maintain enterprise systems, server environments, storage platforms, and cloud infrastructure.

• Lead complex infrastructure deployments, upgrades, migrations, and integration projects.

• Architect and support hybrid environments involving Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Azure AD, and cloud-based services.

• Administer and optimize virtualization technologies, including VMware ESXi, Hyper‑V, and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) platforms.

• Manage enterprise backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and high‑availability solutions.

• Identify, analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve complex infrastructure, security, and performance issues across multiple technology platforms.

• Develop and maintain infrastructure standards, configuration management practices, and operational procedures.

• Design and implement automation solutions utilizing Power Shell, Power Automate, Power Apps, or similar technologies.

• Monitor infrastructure health, capacity, security compliance, and system performance, proactively addressing risks and opportunities for improvement.

• Support hyperconverged computing environments and enterprise storage solutions.

• Develop technical documentation related to architecture, configurations, security controls, operational processes, backup and recovery procedures, and service records.

• Perform security hardening and vulnerability remediation to ensure…