System Engineer IV

Crane Company; Stamford (CT); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Crane Co. seeks a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise infrastructure solutions across business units.

You will partner with BUs to ensure adoption, configuration, and compliance with standards for data center, cloud, compute, storage, networking, backup, monitoring, and security technologies. You will manage services hosted by Crane Corporate Office, ensuring reliable operations, policy alignment, and continuous improvement of infrastructure capabilities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years as a Systems Engineer in medium to high-volume environments.
• Experience designing and managing Azure and AWS cloud environments.
• Experience with Nutanix and VMware hypervisors.
• Strong automation, compute, networking, storage, and backups knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain standardized infrastructure solutions.
• Support adoption and compliance with enterprise standards.
• Lead enterprise infrastructure projects and migrations.
• Ensure uptime, monitoring, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Develop infrastructure documentation and runbooks.

Skills

Advanced networking

Cloud compute design

Automation expertise

Documentation skills

Project leadership

Education

BS degree in computer-oriented technical discipline

Equivalent experience

Tools

Nutanix

VMware

Azure

AWS

Backup appliances

Storage arrays

Server blades

Automation tools

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.

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 center, 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 standardization, modernization, 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

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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, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, general identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.