Sr Systems Engineer

CHI; Englewood (CO); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the IT sector is seeking an experienced professional for a critical role in managing infrastructure projects and ensuring adherence to standards. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to lead teams effectively. This position offers remote work eligibility and involves significant responsibilities in project management and technical leadership.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of professional experience in IT technical or infrastructure roles.
• Understanding of infrastructure and related technologies.
• Experience with datacenter design and vendor management.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates and manages planning of system and acceptance tests.
• Leads assessment, analysis, planning, and design of release packages.
• Provides exceptional customer service to end users and stakeholders.

Skills

Problem-solving

Customer service

Technical leadership

Capacity planning

Education

BA or BS in relevant fields

Tools

IIS

.Net

PowerShell

Job description

Responsibilities

• Provides advice, guidance, and expertise to promote adoption of methods and tools, ensuring adherence to policies and standards. Evaluates, selects, and implements appropriate methods and tools at project and team levels, including tailoring and reviews of benefits and value. Contributes to organizational policies, standards, and guidelines for methods and tools.
• Coordinates and manages planning of system and acceptance tests, ensuring integrity and execution. Offers guidance on test planning and execution, identifies process improvements, and contributes to testing standards and best practices.
• Leads assessment, analysis, planning, and design of release packages, including risk assessment. Conducts post-release reviews, ensures proper processes, and manages adoption of release and deployment tools including automation.
• Demonstrates creativity and initiative in problem-solving, resolving or facilitating resolution of complex problems for assigned programs.
• Handles large scope and highly complex project assignments.
• Provides exceptional customer service to end users, stakeholders, and IT team members.
• Performs daily production support activities and participates in team on-call rotations.
• Performs patching and code deployments across environments.
• Leads projects related to software enhancement, upgrades, patches, or new implementations.
• Coordinates implementation and support efforts between Infrastructure and other IT teams.
• Oversees and facilitates change management processes related to the System Engineering team.
• Reviews, recommends, and monitors source code/versioning management functions.
• Provides technical leadership and ownership across disciplines and technologies.
• Initiates and facilitates strategic planning activities such as capacity planning, process improvements, and roadmap development under oversight.
• Conducts performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Builds new test and production environments as required.
• Designs, implements, and maintains monitoring and alerting processes across all platforms.
• Identifies automation opportunities and implements scripted solutions.
• Seeks out and applies technical innovations and process improvements.
• Utilizes standard tools and methodologies to develop systems and support performance metrics.
• Demonstrates leadership through team motivation and technical training.
• Shows comprehensive knowledge of business processes and routines.
• Performs crisis management during high-severity incidents.
• Remote work eligible.

Qualifications

• BA or BS in relevant fields or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 7 years of professional experience in IT technical or infrastructure roles.
• Understanding of infrastructure and related technologies.
• Experience with IIS, .Net, PowerShell preferred.
• Experience with datacenter design, vendor management, problem management, process analysis, and root cause analysis.