Key job responsibilities
The Systems Engineer leads the design, implementation, and automation of complex Windows infrastructure solutions across multiple environments. This role serves as the technical specialist for infrastructure automation, system architecture, and enterprise-scale Windows environment management, focusing on developing automated solutions for managing large server fleet.
Design and implement automated solutions for Windows infrastructure deployment and management
Architect and maintain Active Directory and domain controller infrastructure across multiple security domains
Develop comprehensive Infrastructure as Code templates for Windows environments
Create automated workflows for system administration using PowerShell, Python, and other automation tools
Design and implement scalable solutions for meeting rooms, video walls, and enterprise printing services
Lead technical initiatives for infrastructure improvements and automation
Mentor junior engineers on automation best practices and Windows infrastructure management
A day in the life
Your morning starts with a review of overnight automation runs. The Infrastructure as Code deployment you scheduled has completed successfully — fifty servers provisioned, configured, and domain-joined without a single manual touch. You verify the results, make a minor template refinement, and commit the update to the repository.
Mid-morning, you're deep in an Active Directory architecture session. A new security domain is being stood up, and you're designing the domain controller topology, trust relationships, and Group Policy structure that will govern it. You sketch the architecture, validate it against security requirements, and begin translating your design into automated deployment scripts.
After lunch, a junior engineer pings you for guidance. They're building a PowerShell workflow to automate a recurring maintenance task, and they've hit a logic challenge. You pair with them for twenty minutes, guiding them toward a cleaner approach while explaining the "why" behind your suggestions. They push their updated code with confidence.
Later, you're tackling a scalability challenge for the enterprise meeting room infrastructure. The current solution works, but it won't scale to the next phase of growth. You prototype an automated provisioning approach that can handle ten rooms or a hundred with the same template — and document it so the team can extend it further.
Before wrapping up, you review a pull request from a teammate, run a quick validation on a Python automation script you've been developing for fleet-wide patching, and update the team's technical roadmap with progress on your current initiative. Another day where automation won, and manual toil lost.
About the team
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5+ years of systems engineering experience
Experience in site reliability engineering (SRE), systems engineering, systems administration, DevOps, security administration, or network administration
Experience with Active Directory, or experience deploying, managing, and optimizing Microsoft Windows Server
Knowledge of TCP/IP and networking protocols such as HTTP and DNS
Experience designing and developing scripts to automate operational burdens and reviewing scripting changes to ensure they meet the standards for maintainability, scalability and security
Experience working in 24/7 production environment
Experience with service-oriented architecture and web services
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