Senior Systems Engineer, Cloud & Compute

Rust-Oleum•Vernon Hills, IL

20d•$145,000 - $170,000

About The Position

We’re looking for a hands-on Senior Systems Engineer to join our high-performing Cloud and Compute engineering team at a multibillion-dollar global organization. If you thrive in complex enterprise environments and enjoy solving technical challenges at scale, this is the role for you. This position plays a key role in architecting, implementing, and optimizing our hybrid infrastructure, including Azure Cloud, VMware, Hyper-V, Storage and Windows Server platforms. You’ll drive forward key modernization initiatives such as: Upgrading to Windows Server 2025 Migrating and building workloads in Azure as part of our cloud transformation journey Modernizing and upgrading our ESXi infrastructure And more exciting, high-impact projects across our global footprint In this role, you’ll contribute to the technical direction of application hosting, storage, virtualization, and disaster recovery. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally with teams across infrastructure, application development, networking and security to ensure scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions. If you're passionate about infrastructure modernization, cloud adoption, and continuous improvement, and you bring deep technical expertise with a strategic mindset, we’d love to hear from you.

Requirements

10+ years in engineering role for application hosting for global entities with $3B+ in annual revenue.
10+ years with MS Server and Virtualization platforms (VMWare & MS Hypervisor)
10+ years with mass storage units (HP Storage, IBM storage, etc.)
10+ years with ITIL processes and industry best practices for application hosting
5+ years with Azure IaaS and PaaS experience
BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent education.
Excellent oral and written communication
Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
Ability to manage and deliver multiple priorities in a timely fashion.
Ability to support cross-team collaboration to ensure your focus area integrates with the overall solutions.

Nice To Haves

Experience with IBM Power Systems and AS400 is a plus.
MCSE, Security, ITIL, and/or Azure certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

Design, optimize, and implement application hosting solutions in both Azure cloud and on-premise data centers that meet the demands of the business.
Evaluate the current and upcoming infrastructure stack from a security perspective and provide hardening recommendations.
Virtualization and Windows optimization & performance
Active Directory domain consolidations
Coordinates and supports information security efforts in server, virtualization and storage. This includes working with application developers and database administrators to plan and implement application security within application environments. Thus providing guidance on risks and vulnerabilities related to common application protocols, web services security, and end user systems.
Scripting and automation of application hosting and storage maintenance
Disaster and Site Recovery
Take part in life cycle management/ refresh of equipment
Systems management and alerting, which may include nonbusiness hours on-call support rotation as needed.
Collaborate with network services, software systems engineering and/or application development to restore service and/or identify problems
Assist with other facets of IT operations and projects as needed.