Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Stack

Apex Systems; Charlottesville (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401K with company match

ESPP (employee stock purchase plan)

Job summary

Everforth Apex Systems seeks a Sr Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, and optimize Microsoft-centered infrastructure across on‑prem, hybrid, and Azure environments. You’ll own full lifecycle work from requirements to retirement, focusing on automation, reliability, and secure operation.

You will work independently on complex changes, coordinate with teams and vendors, and serve as a senior escalation point. Requires strong Windows Server, AD, Entra ID, and backup expertise.

Qualifications

• Typically 7 or more years of progressively responsible experience in Microsoft infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on Windows Server and Active Directory engineering experience.
• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, hybrid identity, Microsoft 365, and hybrid Exchange dependencies.
• Infrastructure engineering experience with virtualization, storage/SAN concepts, and backup/recovery.
• Advanced PowerShell skills and automation; REST APIs/JSON.
• Strong networking fundamentals for DNS, DHCP, routing, switching, firewalls, VPNs, VLANs, TLS.

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into infrastructure designs with dependencies, capacity, resilience, security, lifecycle and cost.
• Lead platform evaluation, implementation planning, procurement specs, deployment, validation and handoff.
• Develop change, test, rollback, recovery, and maintenance plans for production work.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, configurations, inventories and procedures.
• Engineer and support Windows Server/AD, Entra ID and hybrid Exchange/Exchange Online.
• Engineer and support Dell server, Azure Stack HCI, and Veeam backup and recovery.

Tools

Windows Server

Active Directory

Microsoft Entra ID

Azure Arc

Azure Stack HCI

Veeam

DNS

TLS certificates

IIS

SQL Server

Job description

Everforth Apex Systems seeks a Sr Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, and optimize Microsoft-centered infrastructure across on‑prem, hybrid, and Azure environments. You’ll own full lifecycle work from requirements to retirement, focusing on automation, reliability, and secure operation.

You will work independently on complex changes, coordinate with teams and vendors, and serve as a senior escalation point. Requires strong Windows Server, AD, Entra ID, and backup expertise.