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Position Summary The Systems Engineer II is a technical role responsible for engineering, implementing, and supporting core on-premises and cloud infrastructure that underpins critical business services. This role owns solutions within established architectures, serves as a primary Tier II escalation point, and contributes to the stability, security, and performance of enterprise systems. The Systems Engineer II collaborates closely with security, networking, application, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable, secure, and well-documented infrastructure services aligned with organizational standards and roadmaps.
Key Responsibilities
- Engineer, implement, and support secure and scalable infrastructure solutions across on-premises datacenters and cloud platforms in alignment with reference architectures and standards.
- Participate in the full lifecycle of infrastructure solutions, including requirements gathering, detailed design, implementation, documentation, testing, and transition to operations.
- Serve as a primary Tier II escalation point for infrastructure incidents; participate in incident response, contribute to root-cause analysis, and implement remediation activities for assigned platforms.
- Administer and support core identity and access management services (e.g., directory services, hybrid identity, single sign-on, conditional access, privileged access controls) under the guidance of senior engineers.
- Implement platform upgrades, configuration baselining, and automation improvements for assigned systems, ensuring adherence to scope, schedule, and quality expectations.
- Follow and contribute to standards and reference configurations for system security, hardening, patch and configuration management, performance, and monitoring.
- Implement and support backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity configurations for assigned systems, including executing runbooks, participating in tests, and updating recovery procedures.
- Develop and maintain automation and scripting solutions (e.g., PowerShell) to streamline routine administration, deployments, and configuration management tasks.
- Partner with security teams on vulnerability remediation, security tooling integration, and implementation of compliance and audit controls for infrastructure within assigned scope.
- Collaborate with network and application teams to ensure systems are properly integrated, performant, and aligned with enterprise architecture and business requirements.
- Maintain accurate documentation for infrastructure components, configurations, standard operating procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
- Participate in knowledge sharing activities, including peer reviews, training sessions, and cross-team collaboration to improve operational maturity.
Required Qualifications
- Three to five years of progressively responsible experience in systems engineering or systems administration in an enterprise environment, including ownership of production infrastructure components.
- Strong hands-on experience with Windows Server, enterprise identity platforms, and Microsoft 365 or comparable collaboration environments.
- Practical experience engineering and supporting workloads in Azure or an equivalent cloud platform, including core compute, storage, identity, monitoring, and security features.
- Demonstrated ability to implement resilient solutions for mid-complexity systems, including clustering, load balancing, redundancy, and basic recovery strategies, under established patterns.
- Proficient automation and scripting skills using PowerShell and related tools to build reliable administrative and deployment workflows.
- Solid understanding of enterprise networking and security fundamentals, including DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, firewalls, TLS certificates, VPNs, and secure application publishing.
- Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills, with the ability to translate requirements into technical designs, runbooks, and standard operating procedures.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Professional certifications in infrastructure, cloud, virtualization, or identity platforms from major vendors (e.g., Microsoft, VMware, Azure).
- Experience supporting environments subject to formal regulatory, audit, or compliance frameworks (e.g., CMMC, HIPAA, PCI).
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools (e.g., ARM/Bicep, Terraform, DSC, Ansible) within defined patterns.
This job description is intended to provide information regarding the essential functions and basic duties of this position. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills and duties that could be assigned. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by management as it deems appropriate. This document does not constitute a contract and is subject to change at the discretion of Hoffman & Hoffman, Inc. No phone calls or drop-ins please. EEO Employer/Vets/Disabled