Senior System Engineer (compute and storage infrastructure)

Job Title: Senior System Engineer (compute and storage infrastructure)

Job Location: Atlantic City, NJ ( 3 days onsite)

Job Type: Contract to Hire- candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship

The Senior System Engineer (compute and storage infrastructure)role is a high-level IT professional responsible for the design, implementation, and health of the organization s compute and storage infrastructure. This role will install, administer, and optimize company servers, storage technologies and related components to achieve high performance of the various business applications. This includes ensuring the availability of business applications, configuring all new implementations, and developing processes and procedures for ongoing management of the server environment. The position stages, maintains multiple environments or versions of applications, and assists with the integration of new technology into the existing infrastructure required to support the enterprise. This role has a leadership component in leading technical projects, contributing to budget projections, and the training and mentoring of junior engineers or technicians.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Develop strategies, architect scalable and secure Sever infrastructure that aligns with business goals.
• Act as technical lead and expert in the design and review of new server systems, applications, and hardware; conduct capacity planning as needed.
• Creates sketches, drawings and schematics to clarify design details and functional criteria for Lab and Production computer and communication systems hardware and operating software.
• Lead, coordinate and participate in key process improvements as they relate to the client/server environment.
• Coordinate and collaborate with network engineering, business application, and database administration function to ensure availability, reliability, and scalability of corporate servers to meet business demands.
• Establish and implement policies, procedures, and technologies (including firewalls) to ensure server security.
• Design, implement and maintain a consistent backup and disaster recovery plan. Oversee the testing of backup recoveries.
• Check help desk database for entries on server and server resource issues; prioritize and respond to help desk tickets as appropriate.
• Serve as cornerstone for escalating server issues; provide timely response to customer escalations.
• Perform file system configuration and management; define and perform server backups and recovery procedures.
• Plan and implement server upgrades, maintenance fixes, and vendor-supplied patches.
• Monitor and test system performance and provide performance statistics and reports.
• Create shell scripts as required.
• Manage enterprise directory services and supporting server infrastructure.
• Define and implement strategies for integrating disparate operating environments.
• Recommend and execute modifications to server environment in order to improve efficiency, reliability, and performance.
• Develop and maintain training materials and server documentation.
• Prepares equipment and documentation for Change Management approval for promotion into the Production environment.

QUALIFICATIONS:

A Bachelor s degree in Information Systems or equivalent training and experience is required.

At least five years equivalent work experience in a technical analytical position responsible for managing large compute and storage environments

Project management skills are a definite asset.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

Advanced knowledge and a minimum of two years experience of storage technologies such as SAN or NAS.

Five or more years of experience and demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft operating systems, Power shell scripting, SQL Server environment, and VMWare.

Experience with Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft O365 and SharePoint is desired