IT Systems Engineer – Cloud, Security & Automation

Genesee County, Inc.; Flint (MI); On-site; USD 60,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

Genesee County, Inc. seeks a Systems Engineer to optimize and secure the enterprise IT infrastructure, focusing on virtualization, servers and storage.

You will design, implement and enhance infrastructure solutions while driving automation and reliability across the organization. Responsibilities include enforcing security best practices, disaster recovery planning, monitoring systems, and coordinating with IT teams to maintain high availability and performance, with after-hours on-call support

Qualifications

• One year experience managing production servers in a cloud environment.
• Bachelor's degree plus ten years' systems experience with hypervisors, Windows servers and SAN in a VMware environment plus 6-month certification requirement.
• Associate degree plus thirteen years' experience with hypervisors, Windows servers and SAN in an enterprise VMware environment plus 6-month certification requirement.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, test and troubleshoot enterprise hosts, servers and storage systems.
• Deploy and maintain measures to protect system integrity and compliance.
• Ensure periodic patching of software and firmware and daily review of logs.
• Monitor performance to ensure reliability.
• Create and maintain configuration documentation.
• Provide guidance and support to team members.
• Design and implement automation of tools to streamline processes.
• Assist in business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
• Respond to outages per business continuity plans.
• Coordinate with vendors and contractors for projects and support.
• Diagnose complex system problems and implement corrective actions.
• Research relevant technology products and trends.
• Attend training seminars and conferences to stay updated.

Skills

Cloud computing

Enterprise IT infrastructure

Automation

Security best practices

Backup and DR planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Associate degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

VMware vSphere

Windows Server

SAN Storage

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

Genesee County, Inc. seeks a Systems Engineer to optimize and secure the enterprise IT infrastructure, focusing on virtualization, servers and storage.

You will design, implement and enhance infrastructure solutions while driving automation and reliability across the organization. Responsibilities include enforcing security best practices, disaster recovery planning, monitoring systems, and coordinating with IT teams to maintain high availability and performance, with after-hours on-call support