IT Systems Engineering Manager — 24/7 Gaming Infra Lead

Oneida Indian Nation/Turning Stone Casino; Town of Verona (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Oneida Innovations Group seeks an IT Systems Engineering Manager to lead a growing IT and Innovation team in New York. The role focuses on planning, monitoring, and upgrading a multi-server environment to ensure stable, reliable operations and compliance with change management processes.

You will oversee staff training, on-call incidents, and cross-team collaboration with Applications and Networking groups to support gaming and hospitality systems.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or related field or 6+ years IT experience.
• Minimum of 6+ years IT experience with leadership experience a plus.
• Azure cloud services familiarity is a definite plus.
• Experience managing a multi-server distributed environment.
• Experience with VMware, Nutanix and other hypervisor tools.
• Experience with Windows 200x, AS/400, AIX, Linux and UNIX operating systems.
• Understanding of Active Directory, VMware, IBM SAN/disk technologies and networking.
• Excellent organizational, verbal and writing skills; able to work under pressure.
• Demonstrated experience working with gaming or hospitality systems.
• Desired: Experienced in managing technical resources.

Responsibilities

• Plans, schedules and assigns work to Systems Engineers and trains staff.
• Reviews and plans upgrades to keep a stable, available operating environment.
• Maintains servers and OS configurations; supports Change Management.
• Leads on-call incident response and provides timely updates to leadership.
• Maintains documentation, project tracking and management reporting.
• Coordinates ongoing maintenance of servers and operating systems.
• Fosters strong teamwork with networking and engineering teams.
• Partners with Applications Group to align system philosophy with IT mission.
• Maintains casino gaming system with proactive monitoring of Unix server.
• Provides 24/7 on-call support and decisive escalation decisions.

Skills

IT Leadership

Azure

Distributed systems

VMware

Nutanix

Windows Server

Networking

Documentation

Education

CS degree or related field

Tools

VMware

Nutanix

Job description

Oneida Innovations Group seeks an IT Systems Engineering Manager to lead a growing IT and Innovation team in New York. The role focuses on planning, monitoring, and upgrading a multi-server environment to ensure stable, reliable operations and compliance with change management processes.

You will oversee staff training, on-call incidents, and cross-team collaboration with Applications and Networking groups to support gaming and hospitality systems.