Remote System Engineer – Cloud, Automation & Infra

Midco; Sioux Falls (SD); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Midco seeks a System Engineer to design, administer, secure, and improve enterprise infrastructure spanning on-premises and cloud environments. You’ll work across Windows and Unix/Linux servers, virtualization, and container platforms, focusing on automation, reliability, and documentation to support business operations.

Role levels range from Associate to Expert, with opportunities to lead modernization initiatives, participate in DR planning, and collaborate with security to reduce risk while

Qualifications

• Associate degree or equivalent experience in IT or a related field.
• Experience in enterprise infrastructure systems, including server OS, virtualization, and related platforms.
• Ability to analyze issues, follow established processes, and implement effective solutions.
• Experience developing and maintaining technical documentation.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, monitor, and support enterprise server infrastructure across Windows and Unix/Linux platforms.
• Support virtualization platforms, including provisioning, configuration, optimization, and lifecycle management of virtualized resources.
• Support and enhance cloud infrastructure services, including Azure-based technologies and platform services.
• Implement, maintain, and improve infrastructure automation, scripting, and operational efficiency initiatives.
• Monitor system health, performance, capacity, availability, and reliability using enterprise monitoring and alerting tools.
• Perform system configuration, patching, upgrades, maintenance, and lifecycle management activities.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, platform, virtualization, storage, cloud, and operating system issues.
• Participate in infrastructure design, solution evaluation, technology implementation, and modernization initiatives.
• Support containerized platforms and related technologies as applicable.
• Participate in backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning and execution activities.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including system configurations, procedures, architecture diagrams, standards, and operational runbooks.
• Partner with Information Security teams to maintain secure infrastructure configurations, support audits and assessments, remediate vulnerabilities, and reduce operational risk.
• Participate in incident response activities and serve in on-call rotations as required.
• Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to support infrastructure operations, projects, and strategic initiatives.
• Contribute to process improvements, operational efficiencies, automation initiatives, and technology standardization efforts.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices relevant to infrastructure engineering.
• Assist with training, mentoring, and knowledge sharing among team members as appropriate to role level.

Skills

Windows Server

Unix/Linux

Virtualization

Cloud (Azure)

Automation/Scripting

Documentation

Communication

Education

Associate’s degree in Information Technology or related field

Bachelor’s degree preferred

Equivalent experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Monitoring tools

Backup & Recovery

Job description

Midco seeks a System Engineer to design, administer, secure, and improve enterprise infrastructure spanning on-premises and cloud environments. You’ll work across Windows and Unix/Linux servers, virtualization, and container platforms, focusing on automation, reliability, and documentation to support business operations.

Role levels range from Associate to Expert, with opportunities to lead modernization initiatives, participate in DR planning, and collaborate with security to reduce risk while