Platform Systems Engineer

Cook Children's Health Care System; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Cook Children’s Health Care System is seeking a Platform Systems Engineer to provide engineering and group support across Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, Nutanix and Ivanti stacks. The role emphasizes capacity planning and cloud infrastructure, with duties spanning design decisions, budgeting, and disaster recovery.

The engineer will serve as a project resource for the Platform Team, collaborating with IS customers, delivering consulting services, and ensuring standard architectures and deployments

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business, CS, or related field with 2 years IT experience; or Associate’s with 4 years; or HS diploma with 6 years IT experience.
• One or more of the listed IT certifications required or must be obtained within six months.
• Experience with platform engineering, enterprise IT, and customer-facing service delivery preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop, install, test, maintain, and deploy platform technologies (Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, Nutanix, Ivanti).
• Engage in capacity planning, budgeting, and private/public cloud infrastructure decisions.
• Provide consulting to IS teams and customers, ensure design and delivery of Epic Client solutions.
• Support platform services, security, disaster recovery, and change management.

Skills

Citrix

Microsoft

VMware

Nutanix

Ivanti

Windows Server

Windows Desktop

Capacity planning

Cloud infrastructure

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business, Computer Science, or related field

Associate's degree with 4+ years IT experience

High school diploma/equivalent with 6+ years IT experience

Tools

MCSE/MCTS/MCP/MCSE family certificates

Azure (Administrator/Solutions Architect/VDI)

AWS (SysOps/Solutions Architect)

Google Cloud (Cloud Engineer/Architect)

Citrix CCA/CCP/CCE-V

VMware VCP/VCAP

IGEL Certified Professional/Engineer

CompTIA A+/Server+/Network+/Cloud+

Job description

Location:Rosedale Office BuildingDepartment:Technology ServicesShift:First Shift (United States of America)Standard Weekly Hours:40Summary:An independent contributing IT Professional providing engineer level technical and group support within the Platform Systems Engineer family developing and applying technical proficiency in two or more IT disciplines that support Cook Children’s platform infrastructure. This includes technology disciplines in Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, Nutanix, and Ivanti suite of products along with a proficient level of Windows server and desktop engineering and administration. Capacity planning, research emerging technologies, budgeting, private and public cloud infrastructure, making design decisions, and supporting Epic Client design and delivery. This position requires being a project resource for the Platform Team and Information Services projects. The Engineer position will be assisting and interacting with many customers requiring good communication, customer service and problem resolution skills. This role provides consulting services to Information Services teams and/or customers regarding technologies and the application of specific technology standards. The Engineer position assists Platform staff and other Information Services Professionals. Jobs in this family are responsible for developing, testing, maintaining, installing, and/or deploying technologies including systems, networks, dataarchitectures, capacity planning, performance management, security, configuration management, and disaster recovery. In addition, a Platform Systems Engineer contributes to the establishment, development, and promotion of standard architectures, as well as hardware and software components that are used in the data center, cloud and user environments.Qualifications:Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business, Computer Science, or a related field and 2 years of direct IT experience; orAssociate's degree and 4 years of direct IT experience; orHigh school diploma/equivalent and 6 years of direct IT experience.Certifications/Licensure:Acquired one or more of the below Information Technology certifications is required, or must obtain within six (6) months of employment -• Microsoft: MCSE, MCITP, MCP, MCDST or MCTS• Microsoft Azure: Administrator, Solutions Architect, Virtual Desktop• AWS: SysOps Administrator, Solutions Architect• Google: Cloud Engineer, Cloud Architect• Citrix: CCA-V, CCP-V or CCE-V• VMware: VCA, VCP or VCAP• IGEL: Certified Professional or Engineer• CompTIA: A+, Server+, Network+ or Cloud+About Us:Cook Children’s is an equal opportunity employer. As such, Cook Children’s offers equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected class in accordance with applicable federal laws. These opportunities include terms, conditions and privileges of employment, including but not limited to hiring, job placement, training, compensation, discipline, advancement and termination.Cook Children’s is a Texas-only employer. If you are hired, you will need to maintain your primary residence within the state of Texas, along with all licenses and credentials required for your position throughout your employment.