Sr Systems Engineer

ITAC Solutions; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 186,252,000 - 200,579,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

High visibility

Technical leadership

Broad infrastructure exposure

Job summary

ITAC Solutions in the Philadelphia area is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join its Enterprise IT team. This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership role focused on guiding infrastructure strategy, standards, and modernization initiatives across a complex enterprise environment.

You will provide senior-level administration for Windows and Linux servers, Active Directory, VMware, storage, cloud services, and identity platforms, with after-hours on-call support as needed.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Windows Server and enterprise identity services.
• Experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter.
• Knowledge of storage, backup, and disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior-level engineering, administration, and support for enterprise systems infrastructure.
• Administer Windows and Linux servers, AD, DNS, DHCP, and Microsoft 365.
• Manage VMware environments and storage, DR, and replication.
• Serve as escalation point for complex issues and participate in major initiatives.
• After-hours or on-call support as needed.

Skills

Windows Server

Active Directory

Group Policy

DNS

DHCP

PowerShell

Identity services

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS or equivalent

Tools

VMware vSphere

ESXi

vCenter

Azure

Entra ID

Microsoft 365

Hybrid identity

MFA

Conditional Access

Job description

Our client is a growing healthcare services organization seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join its Enterprise IT team in the Philadelphia area. This is a high-impact technical leadership opportunity for an experienced infrastructure professional who enjoys staying hands-on while helping guide infrastructure strategy, standards, and modernization initiatives across a complex enterprise environment.

Benefits & Extras

• High-visibility role within a growing enterprise technology organization.
• Opportunity to provide technical leadership without formal people-management responsibilities.
• Broad exposure across enterprise infrastructure, cloud, virtualization, identity, and security.

Compensation

• $65-70/hr.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Provide senior-level engineering, administration, and support for enterprise systems infrastructure.
• Administer and support Windows and Linux servers, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, certificate services, Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Azure, virtualization, storage, backup, and monitoring platforms.
• Manage and support VMware environments, including vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, high availability, clustering, and virtual infrastructure lifecycle activities.
• Support enterprise storage, SAN/NAS, backup and recovery, replication, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities.
• Serve as a third-level escalation point for complex server, identity, virtualization, storage, cloud, security, and performance issues.
• Participate in infrastructure architecture, solution design, system integration, capacity planning, migrations, upgrades, and major technology initiatives.
• Participate in after-hours or on-call support for escalated production issues as needed.

What You’ll Need to Be Considered

• 8+ years of progressive experience in systems engineering, enterprise infrastructure, systems administration, or a related technical field.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, PowerShell, and enterprise identity services.
• Experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter, including high availability and virtual infrastructure management.
• Experience with enterprise storage, SAN/NAS, backup and recovery, replication, disaster recovery, and capacity management.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, Entra ID, Microsoft 365, hybrid identity, MFA, and Conditional Access.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across servers, storage, virtualization, identity, cloud services, application dependencies, network dependencies, and system performance.