Senior Systems Engineer, Managed Services (Remote)

Contour Data Solutions, LLC; Santa Cruz de Tenerife; Hybrid; EUR 71,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Contour Data Solutions, LLC is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer- Managed Services to design, build, and support virtualization, compute, storage, and backup across Windows and Linux in a 24x7x365 environment. The role emphasizes automation, patching, and incident resolution in a remote/hybrid setup.

You will lead design and operations for VMware environments, backup with Veeam/Zerto, and collaborate on infrastructure planning and security hardening.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in design, implementation, and support of enterprise systems infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on VMware in production environments; exposure to alternative hypervisors.
• Experience with backup and disaster recovery platforms (Veeam and Zerto).
• Windows Server and Linux administration with core services.
• Automation experience with scripting and IaC tools.
• Understanding of security hardening best practices.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day operation, change control, and maintenance of the systems estate.
• Design, build, and administer virtualization environments (VMware + others).
• Manage backup/DR, replication, failover testing, and validation.
• Provision, patch, harden, and maintain Windows/Linux systems.
• Develop runbooks and automation for routine maintenance.
• Monitor health and optimize performance.

Skills

VMware vSphere

Backup & DR (Veeam/Zerto)

Windows & Linux admin

Automation (PowerShell/Bash/Python)

IaC (Ansible/Terraform)

Networking basics

Education

Bachelor's in engineering/CS or related field

Equivalent work experience accepted

Tools

PowerCLI

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Contour Data Solutions, LLC is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer- Managed Services to design, build, and support virtualization, compute, storage, and backup across Windows and Linux in a 24x7x365 environment. The role emphasizes automation, patching, and incident resolution in a remote/hybrid setup.

You will lead design and operations for VMware environments, backup with Veeam/Zerto, and collaborate on infrastructure planning and security hardening.