System Engineer IV

102 Crane Company; Stamford (CT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Crane Co. in Stamford, CT is seeking a senior Systems Engineer to design, implement, and maintain standardized enterprise infrastructure across business units.

You will partner with BUs to adopt standards across data center, cloud, compute, virtualization, storage, backup, monitoring and security technologies, ensuring reliable operations and policy alignment. The role emphasizes uptime, proactive monitoring, crisis remediation, and cross-functional IT initiatives, with a focus on Sarbanes-Oxley

Qualifications

• 7+ years as a Systems Engineer in a medium to high volume environment.
• Experience designing and managing cloud hyperscale environments such as Azure and AWS.
• Experience designing and managing hypervisor technologies including Nutanix and VMware.
• Experience 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 remediation of issues.
• Lead and support infrastructure projects, including standardization, modernization, migrations, and integrations.
• Ensure infrastructure solutions comply with Sarbanes-Oxley and related regulations.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure documentation, standards, procedures, and training materials.

Skills

Azure

AWS

Nutanix

VMware

Automation

Networking

Education

BS degree in computer-oriented field

Tools

Nutanix

VMware

Backup appliances

Storage arrays

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 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

Other Provisions

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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Crane Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, 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.

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.

Company Culture & Compensation

At Crane, we believe that attracting and retaining the highest quality people is the best insurance of success. Our goal is to recruit talented people and train them within a culture that calls for performance with trust and respect. Join us. The unique backgrounds and differences of our associates make us stronger, more capable, and more successful. Beyond an associate’s base compensation, we reward and reinforce wellbeing with a compelling package of both cash and non-cash benefits, including comprehensive health, wellness incentives, assistance with retirement savings, paid time off, paid holidays, and tuition reimbursement - as well as performance-based bonus programs for certain positions. Crane prioritizes career development for our associates. All associates receive an annual development plan that includes a mixture of on-the-job coaching and formal training experiences to support individual development needs. We firmly believe in associate growth that supports career progression and we will proactively support your ongoing career development.