Akkodis is seeking a Senior System Engineer for a Direct-Hire job with a client in Chicago, IL/ Cleveland & Columbus, OH (Hybrid). The manager is seeking an experienced engineer with a strong background in managing environments with 100+ virtual servers on Hyper-V, as well as solid Azure infrastructure experience. He is looking for a highly skilled server expert—someone who can be the most knowledgeable person in the room in this area. While the team has strong VMware expertise, they specifically need someone who brings deep, hands-on Hyper-V experience.
The ideal candidate will have extensive, proven experience in both on-premises and cloud environments, with the ability to operate in a hybrid infrastructure. This person should be self-driven, capable of owning the domain end-to-end, and able to think strategically to propose and implement scalable solutions.
Pay Range: $90k-$110k per Annum. The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.
Essential Functions
- Oversees the physical datacenter experience with virtualization/private cloud infrastructure.
- Manages racking design and organization, cable management, redundancy, and growth planning.
- Manages the relationships with external vendors and cloud providers.
- Supports the premise of cloud migration, disaster recovery, and hybrid cloud management.
- Monitors, manages, and forecasts changing requirements in prem and cloud infrastructure, generating and tracking KPIs for system performance and availability.
- Designs, configures, and maintains IT infrastructure hardware, cloud, and software, including but not limited to Active Directory/GPOs, network infrastructure, VMware and HyperV clusters, Microsoft 365, Azure, and other infrastructure applications such as configuration management, Monitoring, VPN, RDP, etc.
- Partner with the security team on projects/requests for hardening, remediation, complying with client requirements, ISO requirements, and security controls assessments.
- Assists in system monitoring, reviewing infrastructure and application logs, and verifying configured technical controls.
- Server/system configuration management and IP address management – Build, manage, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot configuration management systems, including all related components and systems, firm-wide.
- Participates in coordinating, installing, testing, and providing technical support for local and wide-area wired and wireless networks.
- Assists with the deployment of new desktop and server operating systems and applications.
- Assists with the distribution of updates and patches across systems.
- Assists with enterprise line of business application support. Provides Tier III support/troubleshooting.
- Evaluates, tests, recommends, and implements specific software and network solutions.
- Technical Documentation – Develop and maintain complete and accurate documentation of network layout, server hardware and software configurations, firewall and router configurations.
- Research, install, analyze, test, and evaluate applications, systems, policies, methodologies, processes, and procedures to ensure that the Firm's Server infrastructure and facilities meet the Firm's expectations and Service Level Agreements for availability, performance, growth, and functionality. Maintains documentation for network processes and procedures.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- The IT Sr. Systems Engineer should have over seven years of experience in systems engineering or cloud administration, along with strong interpersonal and analytical skills.
- The role requires excellent customer service, effective communication, and the flexibility to occasionally work evenings, weekends, and travel as needed.
- Candidates must be highly skilled in datacenter virtualization, hybrid cloud infrastructure, network switching, storage management, and virtualization clusters, with expertise in VMware vSphere, Hyper-V/SCVMM, and SAN configuration.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Azure, Windows administration (including Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy, Kerberos, Certificate Authority, and IIS), Microsoft 365, Azure technologies, and identity and access management is essential.
- Certifications in relevant technologies are preferred, and the position may involve up to 10% travel to other office locations.
If you are interested in this role, then please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis, or any questions, feel free to contact me at shweta.ojha@akkodisgroup.com
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Benefits offerings include, but are not limited to:
- 401(k) with match
- Medical insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision assistance
- Paid Time Off
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