Senior System Engineer

MontecitoBank&Trust; Goleta (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Pay

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

401K Matching

Paid Vacation Time

Sick Time

Federal Holidays

Volunteer Time

Associate Bank Accounts

Bank Gatherings

Job summary

Montecito Bank & Trust in Goleta, CA seeks a Senior System Engineer to design, deploy, and operate the bank’s cloud and on‑prem infrastructure. You will work across Azure, on‑prem servers, VDI, and security operations to maintain global uptime and compliance.

You will participate in backup leadership, disaster recovery, and end‑to‑end system management, enabling hybrid networking and device management for the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology related field or equivalent work experience.
• 8-10 years’ experience in Microsoft system administration and engineering.
• Strong experience with hypervisor technologies, Azure cloud server, network technologies, VDI, and DevOps.
• Strong system experience in web servers, app servers, database servers, endpoint deployment and Exchange Online.
• Strong security and protection experience in backups, disaster recovery, identity and access management, endpoint security.

Responsibilities

• Plan, design, implement and configure server, system, and application projects.
• Work with vendors for support, upgrades and incident response.
• Secure the environment through protection, detection and threat response.
• Ensure business continuity through backups and system resilience activities.
• Maintain server environment with regular patching and health checks.
• Manage service requests and deployments; handle AD, PKI, certificates and firewalls.

Skills

Bachelor's degree

8–10 years experience

Azure cloud

Hypervisor technologies

VDI (Virtual Desktop)

DevOps

Active Directory

Security & backups

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Tools

Azure

Intune

Exchange Online

PKI

Active Directory

Job description

Join Montecito Bank & Trust as a Senior System Engineer!

As the largest locally owned community Bank on the Central Coast, Montecito Bank & Trust is committed to our founding principle: to make the communities we serve better places to live and work. We are always looking for talented professionals who are passionate about personalized service, community involvement, and innovation. By joining our team, we are dedicated to your career development and wellbeing, in and out of the workplace.

About the Role

Montecito Bank & Trust is seeking a full-time Senior System Engineer to join the team in our Technology department. As a Senior System Engineer, you will deliver a World Class Experience by performing a variety of complex duties in the strategizing, developing, and operating of the bank’s information technology cloud, datacenter, server, desktop, network, hypervisor, and application infrastructure. This includes building, releasing, securing, maintaining, provisioning, monitoring, reporting, remediation, and business continuity processes. Covering all onsite and cloud environments, physical and virtual servers, email and database servers, hypervisor, virtual desktop infrastructure, hybrid networking, endpoint and mobile device management, backups, identity management, cybersecurity operations, disaster recovery, and directory management in a Microsoft environment. Position is responsible for engineering solutions in the Microsoft Azure cloud, on‑premise infrastructure, virtual desktop infrastructure, group policy and intune management, mobile devices, applications, SSL certificate renewals, cybersecurity operations, reporting, server, workstation, application, endpoint, backups, end user issues, cybersecurity issues, and day to day operations. You will be located in Goleta, CA with the opportunity for a hybrid work schedule.

What We’re Looking For

• A college Bachelor’s degree in information technology related field of study or equivalent work experience required.
• 8-10 years’ experience in Microsoft system administration and engineering required.
• Strong experience with hypervisor technologies, Azure cloud server, network technologies, virtual desktop infrastructure, and DevOps preferred.
• Strong system experience in web servers, app servers, database servers, endpoint deployment, endpoint configuration, automation, and ExchangeOnline cloud email preferred.
• Strong security and protection experience in backups, disaster recovery, identity and access management, end point security, and monitoring preferred.
• Strong experience in Microsoft Server, Cloud, Active Directory technologies with certifications preferred.

Your Responsibilities

The essential functions of this role include, but are not limited to:

• Planning, designing, implementing and configuration of server, system, and application based projects.
• Working with vendors for support, upgrades and incident response.
• Securing our environment through protection, detection and responding to threats.
• Ensuring business continuity through backups, recovering and system resilience activities.
• Maintaining the server environment by ensuring regular patching and other routines to ensure a healthy and protected environment.
• Managing service requests, provision requests and questions as assigned.
• Managing AD, PKI, Certificates, deployments, configuration, firewalls, scanning tools, application installs, server upgrades and all other tools used to manage our windows server environment.
• Monitoring of performance, threats and other events that negatively impact our system environment.
• Developing and maintaining policies, procedures and documentation of all server and system functions.
• Training and mentoring other System Engineers within the department.

Your Benefits

• Workplace Culture that Values YOU
• Competitive Pay
• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life Insurance
• 401K Matching/Retirement Planning
• Paid Vacation Time, Sick Time, Federal Holidays, & Volunteer Time
• Associate Bank Accounts
• Bank Gatherings, Events, & Associate Engagement Activities

Individual pay is based on a multitude of factors, including candidate’s experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to perform in the position and pay equity.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Montecito Bank & Trust is an equal opportunity employer. Montecito Bank & Trust is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in our application process to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Employment eligibility is contingent on completing the DHS Employment Eligibility Verification (I-9) form and presenting acceptable documentation upon hire verifying your identity and right to work in the United States. The Bank does not sponsor visas, green cards, CPT, OPT, or other work authorizations.