Senior Windows System Engineer

System Soft Technologies; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

System Soft Technologies is seeking a Senior Windows Systems Engineer to design, automate, and optimize high-availability Windows infrastructures in a fast-paced environment. You will craft PowerShell automation, DR/monitoring pipelines, and cross-functional tooling to reduce manual work.

Experience with Citrix CVAD is a strong plus, along with Grafana/Prometheus observability stacks. On-site Philadelphia relocation support is available; US citizen/GC required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.

Responsibilities

• Architect, manage, and support large-scale virtualized environments across multi-hypervisor architectures.
• Develop and maintain PowerShell automation modules and tooling (DSC) to reduce manual configuration.
• Build telemetry and observability pipelines using Grafana, Prometheus, and Telegraf for real-time monitoring.
• Provide expert-level troubleshooting for complex enterprise infrastructure across global environments.
• Collaborate with software development and production teams to scale and streamline solutions.

Skills

PowerShell

Automation

Windows Server

Networking

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Citrix CVAD

Grafana

Prometheus

Telegraf

InfluxDB

ELK

VMware

Hyper-V

Job description

Senior Windows Systems Engineer (PowerShell Automation SME)

Location: Philadelphia (On-site) --> relocation assistance if applicable

US Citizen, Green Card only

We are seeking an experienced Senior Windows Systems Engineer to join our infrastructure team in supporting high-volume, large-scale virtual application and desktop platforms used in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate brings extensive background in designing, optimizing, and automating massive global infrastructures (spanning thousands of virtual machines and servers) using advanced PowerShell tooling and comprehensive telemetry frameworks.

Note: While this role sits within our Citrix engineering environment, deep Windows engineering and robust PowerShell automation skills are our primary focus—experience with Citrix is a strong plus, but willingness to learn is also welcome.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, manage, and support large-scale virtualized environments and Windows Server operating systems across multi-hypervisor architectures (such as VMware and Hyper-V/Storage Spaces Direct clusters).
• Engineer custom PowerShell scripting, automation modules (such as DSC), and tooling to orchestrate vendor platforms and eliminate manual configuration overhead.
• Build proactive telemetry and observability pipelines utilizing tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and Telegraf to monitor real-time performance and user experience.
• Provide expert-level system troubleshooting, cross-functional support, and root-cause problem solving for complex enterprise infrastructure.
• Collaborate closely with software development, production engineering, and business units to scale and streamline solutions.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Completion of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• 7+ to 15 years of professional infrastructure and systems engineering experience specializing in high-availability virtual desktop and application platforms.
• Strong, hands-on experience with PowerShell scripting, automation, and configuration management (candidates should be ready to share examples of process revamping and optimization).
• Deep engineering and troubleshooting expertise across modern Windows Server operating systems, core networking concepts, and virtualization technologies.
• Direct experience managing global virtual infrastructure supporting massive user bases and thousands of servers/virtual machines.
• Experience with Citrix CVAD environments or a strong background in similar virtual desktop/application delivery architectures is a strong plus.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB, or ELK.