Senior Hybrid Systems Engineer (Cloud & On-Prem)

American Public Education, Inc. (APEI); United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

American Public Education, Inc. is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to design and optimize hybrid infrastructure across Windows Server, virtualization, cloud services, identity platforms, and security systems.

The role emphasizes reliability, performance, security, audit readiness, and operational continuity in production and non-production environments. The engineer will apply disciplined change management, documentation, and automation while partnering with infrastructure, application,

Qualifications

• 5+ years in systems engineering or infrastructure operations in an enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

• Provides support for production enterprise environments located in Charles Town, WV; co-location facilities; DR site; and other branch offices.
• Supports on‑premises and Cloud environments (dev, test, staging, prod copy).
• Partner with engineering, application, security, and business teams to implement, maintain, and document hardware, software, virtualization, cloud, and automation solutions.
• Install, manage, and troubleshoot servers (physical, virtual, cloud).
• Administers and maintains server-level accounts, groups, permissions, and access rights.
• Manage updates, patches, upgrades, configurations, and code deployments across on‑prem and cloud environments via change control.
• Maintain documentation and evidence of operational procedures for audit readiness.
• Monitor system performance, usage, capacity, and cloud costs; identify optimization opportunities.
• Recommend and perform infrastructure improvements and repairs.
• Mitigate and resolve problems affecting server performance and availability.
• Develop enterprise network/server solutions with project plans and implementation steps.
• Develop instructions and guidelines for assigned functions.
• Support availability, resiliency, monitoring, and incident response for mission‑critical services.
• Perform backup, recovery, and archiving duties.
• Provide escalation guidance to infrastructure engineers and service desks.
• Administer enterprise virtualization platforms (VMware/Hyper‑V) and manage VM lifecycles.
• Support integration of on‑prem with Cloud for consistent operations.
• Develop automation/scripts (PowerShell or IaC) to improve provisioning and maintenance.
• Support cloud resource optimization and rightsizing.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication skills

Independent work

Mentoring

Attention to detail

Education

Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in MIS/CS/IT

Certifications (Microsoft, Azure, VMware, AWS, Cisco, ITIL, CompTIA)

Tools

VMware vSphere/ESXi

Hyper-V

PowerShell

Active Directory

Entra ID

Job description

American Public Education, Inc. is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to design and optimize hybrid infrastructure across Windows Server, virtualization, cloud services, identity platforms, and security systems.

The role emphasizes reliability, performance, security, audit readiness, and operational continuity in production and non-production environments. The engineer will apply disciplined change management, documentation, and automation while partnering with infrastructure, application,