Cloud System Engineer

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior System Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering team. This role is critical for designing, deploying, and managing enterprise IT infrastructure solutions across on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and containerized environments. The successful candidate will ensure systems meet performance, availability, security, and compliance requirements while supporting physical servers, virtual machines, cloud platforms, and container orchestration.

The ideal candidate is a proactive problem solver with extensive experience in Linux administration, virtualization including VMware vSphere and vSAN, and enterprise storage platforms. This position requires strong technical expertise in cloud infrastructure management across multiple platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Microsoft Azure, and AWS. Additionally, proficiency in scripting with Python, Bash, or PowerShell and automation tools is required to optimize resource utilization and support infrastructure lifecycle management. Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment processes is also essential to enhance development and operational workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage enterprise IT infrastructure solutions across on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and containerized environments
• Develop infrastructure architecture plans and deployment strategies
• Ensure systems meet performance, availability, security, and compliance requirements
• Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes platforms including Google Kubernetes Engine, self-managed Kubernetes, and K3s clusters on bare-metal servers
• Manage Kubernetes cluster networking, storage, upgrades, scaling, monitoring, and high availability
• Manage and maintain Linux Server systems, virtualization platforms, and storage solutions
• Perform system monitoring, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and capacity planning
• Manage physical servers, virtual machines, provisioning, configuration, and infrastructure lifecycle management
• Administer and troubleshoot enterprise storage technologies including SAN, NAS, NFS, block, and file storage
• Support and maintain cloud infrastructure across multiple platforms
• Manage cloud resource provisioning, compute, storage, and infrastructure services
• Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure availability, connectivity, and performance issues
• Monitor cloud resource utilization and identify opportunities for optimization

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of experience as a Senior Systems Engineer or in a similar enterprise infrastructure engineering role
• Strong hands-on expertise in Linux Server administration
• Experience with virtualization technologies including VMware vSphere and vSAN
• Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes platforms including Google Kubernetes Engine, self-managed Kubernetes, and K3s clusters on bare-metal servers
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes networking, persistent storage, ingress, cluster management, and high availability
• Hands-on experience with one or more cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Microsoft Azure, or AWS with multi-cloud exposure preferred

Preferred Skills

• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Experience with enterprise storage technologies including SAN, NAS, NFS, block, and file storage
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and configuration management tools such as Ansible
• Familiarity with DevOps tools and continuous integration and continuous deployment technologies including Jenkins and Git
• Knowledge of hybrid cloud architecture and infrastructure integration

Benefits

We offer a Total Rewards plan designed with you and your family’s health and wellness in mind that includes:

• Paid days off (i.e. vacation, sick days, bereavement leave)
• Health and Dental plans
• Retirement plans
• Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
• Employee referral program

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, or disability or any other protected characteristics in accordance with applicable federal, state/provincial, and local laws. We're committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and respected.

We appreciate all responses and will acknowledge only those being considered for an interview. We respectfully request no calls or unsolicited resumes from Agencies.