System Engineer IV

Crane Company; Stamford (CT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Crane Company is seeking a senior Systems Engineer to design, implement, configure, and maintain standardized infrastructure across business units, including data center, cloud, compute, storage, backup, monitoring, and security.

You will partner with business units to promote adoption and compliance with enterprise standards, manage enterprise infrastructure services hosted by the Crane Corporate Office, ensure uptime and resiliency, support disaster recovery, and drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a Systems Engineer in a medium- to high-volume environment.
• Experience designing and managing cloud hyperscale environments such as Azure and AWS.
• Strong knowledge of hypervisors, backups, storage, and networking.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, patch, and manage data center, cloud, compute, virtualization, storage, networking, backup, monitoring, and security technologies.
• Ensure uptime and resiliency of enterprise infrastructure through proactive monitoring and remediation.
• Lead infrastructure projects including standardisation, modernisation, and migrations.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure documentation, standards, and playbooks.
• Provide advanced technical guidance to business units and IT teams.
• Ensure compliance with policies, standards, and regulatory requirements such as SOX.

Skills

Networking expertise

Compute infrastructure

Documentation

Education

BS degree in computer-oriented technical discipline

Tools

Azure

AWS

Nutanix

VMware

Job description

Job Summary:

Supports Crane-wide enterprise infrastructure initiatives by designing, implementing, configuring, and maintaining standardized infrastructure solutions across business units. Partners with BUs to support adoption, configuration, and compliance with enterprise infrastructure standards, including data center, cloud, networking, compute, backup, monitoring, and security-related technologies. Manages enterprise infrastructure services hosted by the Crane Corporate Office, ensuring reliable operations, effective support, policy alignment, and continuous improvement of infrastructure capabilities across the organization.

Essential Functions:

• Support Crane-wide enterprise infrastructure initiatives by designing, implementing, configuring, and maintaining standardized infrastructure solutions across business units.
• Partner with business units to support implementation, configuration, adoption, and compliance with enterprise infrastructure standards.
• Manage enterprise infrastructure services hosted by the Crane Corporate Office, ensuring reliable operations, availability, performance, and support.
• Design, implement, patch, and manage data centre, cloud, compute, virtualization, storage, networking, backup, monitoring, and security-related technologies.
• Ensure uptime and resiliency of critical enterprise infrastructure through proactive monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and timely remediation of issues.
• Support backup, recovery, and disaster recovery capabilities to preserve data assets and align with enterprise policies and business continuity requirements.
• Evaluate infrastructure trends, risks, issues, and requirements to recommend improvements and support continuous improvement of enterprise capabilities.
• Lead and support infrastructure projects, including enterprise standardisation, modernisation, migrations, integrations, and cross‑functional IT initiatives.
• Ensure infrastructure solutions and operations adhere to applicable policies, standards, regulatory requirements, and audit expectations, including Sarbanes‑Oxley and similar regulations.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure documentation, standards, procedures, implementation playbooks, and training materials for business unit and IT teams.
• Provide advanced technical expertise, guidance, and support to business units and IT teams for enterprise infrastructure technologies and standards.
• Perform any other task assigned by supervisor or management.

Non‑Essential Functions:

• N/A

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience: 7+ years of experience as a Systems Engineer in a medium to high volume environment; Experience in designing and managing cloud hyperscale environments such as Azure and AWS; Experience in designing and managing hypervisor technologies including Nutanix and VMware; Experience in designing and managing backup appliances, storage arrays, and server blade systems; Experience deploying and automating virtual machines both on‑prem and in cloud infrastructure; Experience managing networking technologies, including LAN, WLAN. WAN and Internet.

• Knowledge: Advanced knowledge of current cloud and on‑prem compute technologies, hypervisors, networking, storage, and backups; Proficient in designing compute environments to meet best practices; Solid understanding of automation tools and deployment methods

• Skills/Abilities: Specialist on complex and technical business matters relating to networking and compute infrastructure; May assume a lead role on projects and able to work effectively in an individual or team environment; Must be self‑motivated and able to take a project from beginning to completion; Outstanding documentation skills

• Education/Certification: BS degree in computer‑oriented technical discipline or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• N/A

Crane Co. reserves the right to change or assign other duties to this position. The statements contained herein reflect general details as necessary to describe the principal functions of this job, the level of knowledge and skill typically required and the scope of accountability and responsibility. These descriptions should not be considered to be all‑inclusive listings of work requirements.

Crane Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, sex, national origin, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity characteristics or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, medical condition, genetic information, or U. S. military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law, in recruiting, hiring, training and promoting.

This description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work being performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Crane Company. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, general identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.