Sr. Systems Engineer

Redwood Trust Inc•Inverness, CO

10h

About The Position

Redwood Trust is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to play a key role in designing, building, and optimizing a hybrid on-prem and cloud infrastructure environment. This position will lead and contribute to initiatives spanning data center technologies, Azure cloud services, and SaaS platforms. This is a hands-on, end-to-end role—from solution design through implementation and production support—ideal for a versatile engineer who enjoys ownership, collaboration, and solving complex infrastructure challenges.

Requirements

5+ years of systems engineering experience in enterprise environments
Proven success designing, implementing, and supporting infrastructure and cloud solutions
Strong troubleshooting skills across complex, hybrid systems
Hands-on experience with automation, monitoring, APIs, and integrations
Cloud – Azure (preferred) or AWS
Scripting – PowerShell (preferred), BASH
DevOps – CICD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
Compute/HCI – Dell
Storage – Pure Storage, vSAN, or comparable enterprise storage
Networking – General networking knowledge including firewalls and SDWAN. Fortinet experience preferred.
SaaS – O365, GitHub, PowerBI/MS Fabric, Atlassian
APIs – REST, GraphQL
Hypervisor – ESXi
Identity Management – Active Directory, Entra ID, or hybrid
Monitoring – Nagios
Backup/DR – Rubrik, Zerto
Excellent communication and documentation skills.
Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
Ability to collaborate with diverse teams and manage competing priorities.

Nice To Haves

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate
VMware Certified Professional

Responsibilities

Cloud and SaaS: Deploy, manage, and monitor all resources in Azure.
Administer Entra ID, O365, and Intune.
Optimize and reduce costs in Azure.
Understanding of Azure IaaC e.g. ARM, Bicep, Terraform
Experience with a variety of Azure services including App/Web Services, Function Apps, Storage Accounts, Key Vault, Log analytics, App Insights.
Understanding of Azure Private Link Service, Private DNS Resolvers, Private DNS Zones, Private Endpoints, Monitor Private Link Scopes.
Understanding of Virtual networks, subnets, User defined routes, etc.
Basic understanding of Git, GitHub, CI/CD.
Experience with Azure AI services a plus including Cognitive Services, Doc Intelligence, Azure AI Foundry.
Understand of RBAC/IAM in Azure.
On-Prem Infrastructure: Build, deploy, manage, monitor, and optimize virtualized workloads on VMware vSphere.
Manage all aspects of all flash Pure Storage Array and vSAN.
Scripting and automation to reduce repetitive tasks.
Architecture Design: Create and maintain standard deployment models leveraging IaaS, scripting and automation to ensure consistency and industry best practices.
Recommend architecture improvements for scalability and performance.
Collaboration: Work with business stakeholders to understand infrastructure needs and translate them into technical solutions.
Partner with IT, analytics, and operations teams to ensure successful project delivery.
Participate in an oncall rotation for production support.
Provide technical leadership and guidance to junior team members.
Performance Optimization: Monitor on-prem and cloud infrastructure and services to identify potential bottle necks, optimize performance, and proactively identify potential issues.
Implement best practices for compute, storage and network infrastructure.