{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"01cd6879c02a92fe96331c36","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/01cd6879c02a92fe96331c36","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/01cd6879c02a92fe96331c36","title":"Senior Systems Engineer","description":"Skyline is Building Better Together Come join us at Skyline Construction, a leader in commercial interior construction founded in 1996. Today, Skyline operates multiple offices located throughout California, Washington, and Illinois. Skyline is 100% employee-owned, and has been recognized as one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces for the past 5 years. We believe that we are “building better together.”\nWhat’s in it for you? The Senior Systems Engineer can be based out of Skyline Construction's office location in Bellevue, Washington, Chicago, Illinios or Phoenix, Arizona. This person is responsible for the design, implementation, security, and ongoing operation of Skyline's enterprise systems, cloud platforms, identity services, server infrastructure, storage, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities across multiple offices and data center environments.\nThis role serves as a senior technical leader, owning complex infrastructure, leading modernization initiatives, mentoring technical staff, and partnering with the IT Service Delivery, Cybersecurity, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, resilient, and reliable services. The role also has responsibility for overseeing and managing an offshore Systems Engineering team.\nSystems Architecture & Engineering Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available systems across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.\nDefine infrastructure standards, reference architectures, configuration baselines, and lifecycle roadmaps.\nEvaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions that improve reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency.\nServer, Virtualization & Storage Administer and optimize Windows and Linux server environments, virtualization platforms, and supporting infrastructure.\nManage compute, storage, and related capacity to meet business performance, availability, and growth requirements.\nPlan and execute server upgrades, migrations, consolidations, and technology refresh initiatives with minimal disruption.\nCloud & Microsoft Platform Services Engineer and support Azure and Microsoft 365 services within a secure 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requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST)\nMonitor identity-related events and support incident response for account compromise, privilege misuse, and anomalous authentication activity\nDocument IAM standards, procedures, and administrator policies; partner with Security, HR, and Legal on access governance\nServe as escalation point for complex authentication and authorization issues\nSecurity, Hardening & Compliance Implement secure configuration standards and user provisioning, least-privilege access, multifactor authentication, system hardening, and vulnerability remediation.\nOwn operating system and infrastructure patch management, including testing, deployment, exception tracking, and reporting.\nCollaborate with Cybersecurity to support audits, incident response, security investigations, and remediation activities.\nBackup, Recovery & Business Continuity Engineer and manage backup, replication, retention, and recovery solutions for critical systems and data.\nDevelop, maintain, and 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