Senior System Engineer

Akkodis; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 89,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401K plan

EAP program

Commuter benefits

Paid leave

Job summary

Akkodis seeks an experienced Senior System Engineer for a full-time role across Chicago, IL; Cleveland, OH; Columbus, OH. Hybrid work requires 3 days in office.

The candidate will lead virtualization, private cloud, and Azure/Active Directory environments while coordinating with security and operations teams. Relocation is welcome; the role demands strong teamwork, 7+ years of experience, and flexibility to travel.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in systems engineering or cloud administration.
• Strong interpersonal and analytical skills.
• Willing to travel up to 10% and occasional evenings/weekends.
• Experience with datacenter virtualization, hybrid cloud, and SAN.

Responsibilities

• Oversee physical datacenter with virtualization/private cloud.
• Manage racking design, cable management, redundancy, growth.
• Support cloud migration, DR, and hybrid cloud management.
• Design and maintain AD/GS, Azure services, VMware/Hyper-V clusters.
• Coordinate with security for policy compliance and controls.
• Maintain documentation of network/server configurations.
• Provide Tier III support and incident resolution.

Skills

Datacenter virtualization

Hybrid cloud

Network switching

Storage management

VMware vSphere

Hyper-V/SCVMM

SAN configuration

Azure proficiency

Windows administration

Active Directory

Microsoft 365

Identity & access mgmt

Tools

Config management

Monitoring

VPN

RDP

Job description

Akkodis is seeking a Senior System Engineer for a full-time job with a client in Chicago, IL/Cleveland, OH/Columbus, OH (hybrid - 3 days a week in office).

Candidates who can relocate are also welcome to apply.

Pay Salary Range: $89k - $140k/year + benefits

(The pay salary may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.)

Schedule - Mon - Fri (8 am -5 pm EST/CST, hybrid - 3 days a week in office)

Qualifications:

The IT Sr. Systems Engineer should have over seven years of experience in systems engineering or cloud administration, along with strong interpersonal and analytical skills.

The role requires excellent customer service, effective communication, and the flexibility to occasionally work evenings, weekends, and travel as needed. Candidates must be highly skilled in datacenter virtualization, hybrid cloud infrastructure, network switching, storage management, and virtualization clusters, with expertise in VMware vSphere, Hyper-V/SCVMM, and SAN configuration.

Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Azure, Windows administration (including Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy, Kerberos, Certificate Authority, and IIS), Microsoft 365, Azure technologies, and identity and access management is essential.

Certifications in relevant technologies are preferred, and the position may involve up to 10% travel to other office locations.

Important

This is infrastructure engineering group.

Need an experienced engineer in an environment of 100+ Virtual Servers on Hyper-V coupled with Azure infrastructure experience.

Needs to be the smartest person in the room in the server area.

Need Hyper-V experience.

Someone who can self-manage and own the area overall, come up with solutions on a broader sense.

Needs hybrid - cloud experience and data center on-prem experience.

Essential Functions:

Oversees the physical datacenter experience with virtualization/private cloud infrastructure.

Manages racking design and organization, cable management, redundancy, and growth planning.

Manages the relationships with external vendors and cloud providers.

Supports the premise to cloud migration, disaster recovery, and hybrid cloud management.

Monitors, manages and forecasts changing requirements in prem and cloud infrastructure, generating and tracking KPIs for system performance and availability.

Designs, configures, and maintains IT infrastructure hardware, cloud, and software, including but not limited to Active Directory/GPOs, network infrastructure, VMware and HyperV clusters, Microsoft 365, Azure, and other infrastructure applications such as Config management, Monitoring, VPN, RDP, etc.

Partner with the security team on projects/requests for hardening, remediation, complying with client requirements, ISO requirements, and security controls assessments.

Assists in system monitoring, reviewing infrastructure and application logs, and verifying configured technical controls.

Server/system configuration management and IP address management – Build, manage, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot configuration management systems including all related components and systems firm-wide.

Participates in the coordination, installation, testing, and technical support of local and wide area wired and wireless networks.

Assists with deployment of new desktop and server operating systems and applications.

Assists with distribution of updates and patches across systems.

Assists with enterprise line of business application support. Provides Tier III support/troubleshooting.

Evaluates, tests, recommends, and implements specific software and network solutions.

Technical Documentation, Develop and maintain complete and accurate documentation of network layout, server hardware and software configurations, firewall and router configurations.

Research, install, analyse, test and evaluate applications, systems, policies, methodologies, processes, and procedures to ensure that the Firm's Server infrastructure and facilities meet the Firm's expectations and Service Level Agreements for availability, performance, growth, and functionality.

Maintains documentation for network processes and procedures.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, an EAP program, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs that are direct hires to a client.

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The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

• The California Fair Chance Act
• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers