Senior Systems Engineer, IT

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction and technical leadership for infrastructure design, implementation, and optimization.
• Lead architectural discussions for Windows systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure), and hybrid solutions.
• Manage and maintain Active Directory (AD), DNS, DHCP, and other critical systems.
• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, highly available solutions using cloud-native architectures in AWS and Azure.
• Oversee the configuration and management of network infrastructure, including firewalls, switches, and load balancers.
• Lead automation efforts for infrastructure deployment, configuration management using tools like PowerShell, Python, and Terraform.
• Architect, implement, and manage LAMP / LEMP stack systems.
• Establish comprehensive system monitoring and alerting for all environments to ensure high availability and rapid incident response (New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace).
• Drive backup, disaster recovery (DR), and business continuity planning, including annual DR testing and refinement.
• Act as the lead technical resource for the design and deployment of identity management solutions (SSO, MFA) using tools like Okta and Azure AD.
• Collaborate with DevOps and development teams to optimize CI / CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), and containerized workloads.
• Backup procedures to safeguard data security, ensure resource availability, maintain data integrity, and meticulously log and review application activities.
• Mentor and coach junior system administrators and engineers, fostering skill development and knowledge sharing.
• Own system documentation, process improvements, and adherence to IT best practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex system, network, and application issues efficiently.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Qualifications, Education and Experience

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Strong technical acumen and problem-solving skills with a focus on proactive system improvements.

Benefits

Our benefit offerings include : Medical, dental, vision, wellness programs, EAP counseling services, FSA & HSA, company sponsored life insurance for employee, voluntary life insurance for employee, spouse and child, AD&D Insurance, voluntary short-term and long-term disability, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, legal assistance, pet insurance, living will and trust preparation discounts, commuter program, annual walking challenge, employee appreciation events and monthly sales awards.