Senior Backup Systems Engineer — Remote with AU Hours

AImagineers; Manila; Remote; PHP 837,000 - 949,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

13th-month pay

HMO for you and one dependent

Connectivity allowance

Power allowance

MacBook and licences

Tenure bonuses at 12 and 24 months

15 days vacation leave

15 days sick leave

Job summary

AImagineers Managed IT operates the IT for Australian and New Zealand clients from the Philippines, with a named engineer per client and a strong support team. You will cover leave, handle onboarding, and drive migrations, baselines, and automation across multiple accounts.

We offer a real day shift aligned to Australian hours, AI tools, team backing, and growth paths. Salary is PHP 75,000 to 85,000 monthly and you work fully remote.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of systems administration experience.
• Strong Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune and Exchange Online administration.
• Solid networking and backup fundamentals.
• Able to learn new environments quickly and switch between several in one week.
• Disciplined documentation and note-taking.
• Two separate internet connections at home with power backup for at least 2 hours.

Responsibilities

• Cover engineers’ leave, sickness and resignations, at the same standard as the named engineer.
• Work one scheduled day a month on each of your accounts, so every client already knows you.
• Audit each account’s runbooks and fix the gaps, so you could run any of them tomorrow.
• Shadow and hand over when an engineer resigns, and help onboard the replacement.
• Lead the technical onboarding of new clients: access, discovery, asset inventory and baseline.
• Run the first-week health check for new clients.
• Deliver team projects between covers: migrations, baseline roll-outs and automation.
• Report cover risks early to the Lead Engineer and the Service Coordinator.
• Use Claude and Syncro to learn a new account quickly.

Skills

Senior admin

Microsoft 365

Entra ID

Intune

Exchange Online

Networking

Backups

Documentation

Double internet

Tools

PowerShell

Job description

AImagineers Managed IT operates the IT for Australian and New Zealand clients from the Philippines, with a named engineer per client and a strong support team. You will cover leave, handle onboarding, and drive migrations, baselines, and automation across multiple accounts.

We offer a real day shift aligned to Australian hours, AI tools, team backing, and growth paths. Salary is PHP 75,000 to 85,000 monthly and you work fully remote.