Senior System Engineer

As a Senior System Engineer, you will be responsible for supporting, maintaining, and optimizing both our on-prem and cloud environments (AWS/Azure).  This role requires a strong foundation in systems engineering while leveraging cloud technologies to enhance infrastructure efficiency, scalability, and reliability.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities:

• Perform troubleshooting, patching, system builds, and general administration.
• Implement, monitor, operate, and optimize on-prem and cloud-based infrastructure systems to ensure reliability.
• Respond to and remediate alerts after-hours as required.
• Design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions in AWS and Azure.
• Migrate on-prem workloads to the cloud, ensuring performance, compliance, and cost efficiency.
• Work closely with information security to remediate vulnerabilities as identified.
• Ensure compliance with financial industry regulations (FINRA, etc.).
• Contribute to technology roadmaps to drive innovation and continuous improvement.
• Proactive approach to identifying innovative solutions for infrastructure and architecture challenges.
• Collaborate with various teams including, developers, IT, and stakeholders.
• Ability to understand business initiatives and priorities while meeting deadlines.

Required Education And Experience:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud engineering.
• 5+ years of experience managing VMware/vCenter infrastructure.
• Experience designing and maintaining backup, disaster recovery, and high availability systems.
• Strong experience with Windows/Linux server administration including patching, hardening, and tuning.
• Strong experience with Active Directory Administration.
• Scripting experience with Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Strong understanding of implementing access to systems using principles of least privilege.
• Proven ability to lead highly technical projects and mentor junior staff.
• Advanced diagnostic skills to resolve complex system and application issues quickly and efficiently.

Preferred Education And Experience:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud engineering.
• 8+ years of experience managing VMware/vCenter infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of cloud content management systems such as Box, ShareFile, etc.
• Strong knowledge of networking, security, IAM, and compliance in on-prem and cloud environments.
• Experience with hybrid cloud environments and integration with on-prem infrastructure.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and familiarity with monitoring tools such as PRTG.

Skills:

• Strong analytical skills to align IT initiatives with business goals.
• Ability to facilitate cross-functional collaboration and intake initiatives across departments
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical reporting and documentation.
• Experience formalizing IT functions into structured services.

Physical Demands/Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those requirements employees must meet to perform the essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodations. While performing job functions the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, write, review and type reports, compile data, operate a pc, communicate, listen, and assess information. The employee may move about the office complex, may travel to other office locations and may lift, push, pull or move 10 - 15 pounds. Visual requirements include distant, close and color vision, and ability to adjust focus