Sr. Systems Engineer 1

Exelon•Owings Mills, MD

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The IT Sr Systems Engineer I position serves as a senior technical role within the IT department. It requires demonstrated experience of information technology, problem-solving skills, and the ability to work effectively both independently, as a mentor and as part of a team. Candidate will possess the self-motivation, experience, and skills to serve by providing technical insights driving the design, implementation, and optimization of complex systems under the guidance of a Principal Engineer or Manager. Collaborates with IT architecture to define strategy and work with various teams to implement high quality systems to meet business requirements. Delivers and supports IT infrastructure, product and platform solutions. Designs and delivers complex IT system initiatives, to include cloud, non-cloud and hybrid-cloud systems. Influences other IT teams, leadership, enterprise business partners, vendors and project/design teams, in all aspects of the secure & reliable hosting of applications throughout Exelon's large & complex enterprise and real time operational environments.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Networking
4 - 7 years' experience in IT infrastructure design, application design, cloud computing, disaster/recovery, or 6-9 years of relevant experience.
Experience with system administration.
Demonstrated ability to design and document processes & procedures.
Experience transitioning work to operational teams.
Maintained experience with Storage and Backup engineering, design, and operations.
Demonstrated competence with business acumen within own discipline or function.
Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems
Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate highly technical information in non-technical terminology (written and verbal)
Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with strong teamwork skills.
Demonstrates ability to influence up down and across
Drives innovation by leveraging alternative perspectives and emerging technologies to deliver creative solutions
Demonstrated ability to deliver work aligning to project management principles & framework
Demonstrated ability to provide financial impact analysis
Troubleshooting & Monitoring: Solid understanding of the capabilities of standard monitoring tools. Can make informed decisions on monitoring settings such as sample size, level of criticality, and some self-healing opportunities.
Cloud Technologies: Build and maintain knowledge of new technologies or technology opportunities and assists in development of analysis of their use for business and/or IT clients
Security Basics: Ability to evaluate a solution against current security requirements and future industry trends
Scripting & Automation: Able to use PowerShell, Ansible, or another appropriate scripting tool to automate common tasks/create reports and troubleshoot issues with existing scripts

Nice To Haves

Certifications such as NERC-CIP, FERC, AZ900
Deeper understanding of programming languages, and an ability to solve engineering problems of increasing difficulty.
Shows initiative beyond pure implementation.
Experience building highly scalable applications
Lead daily operations of storage (SAN NAS) and backup systems, including monitoring, patching, and capacity planning.
Develop and test disaster recovery plans, ensuring backup reliability and meeting strict RPO RTO targets.
Manage storage backup lifecycle projects, including hardware refreshes, expansions, migrations, and decommissioning.
Optimize storage utilization and performance for virtualized environments and cloud workloads.
Leads operations for high-availability systems, ensuring data integrity, compliance, and disaster recovery readiness.
Responsible for designing, implementing, and managing enterprise-grade storage arrays and data protection (backup recovery) infrastructures.

Responsibilities

Leads discussions with business partners and vendors to gather information. Consults with leadership, architecture, project teams and end users to identify system requirements and perform feasibility analysis on potential changes related to existing and future security and technical architectures. Writes and disseminates system specifications, logical & physical architecture diagrams, and implementation plans. Delivers practical, efficient, and cost-effective solutions that satisfy business needs, including hands-on configuration, troubleshooting and optimization and supporting metrics for the same. (30%)
Work closely with others to develop future plans, resource requirements, migration strategies, and project schedules. Creates and delivers presentations to Engineering and Architecture Review Boards. Possesses deep understanding of current technologies and service offerings within the industry. Provides oversight for less experienced engineers (25%)
Design, support and maintain custom system integration with other platforms, specific to the needs of the customers. Maintain relevancy and knowledge in current and evolving emerging IT systems technologies. (20%)
Ensure all risks and issues are identified and are captured following set process and are actioned appropriately. Responsible to provide supporting data to leadership and peers. (15%)
Maintains knowledge of and compliance with preferred technologies, methodologies, standards and policies. Maintain technical knowledge and business acumen within own discipline or function. Strong debugging and problem-solving skills; participates in peer code reviews. (10%)

Benefits

Annual salary will vary based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, experience, and other factors: $107,200.00/Yr. – $147,400.00/Yr.
Annual Bonus for eligible positions: 15%
401(k) match and annual company contribution
Medical, dental and vision insurance
Life and disability insurance
Generous paid time off options, including vacation, sick time, floating and fixed holidays, maternity leave and bonding/primary caregiver leave or parental leave
Employee Assistance Program and resources for mental and emotional support
Wellbeing programs such as tuition reimbursement, adoption and surrogacy assistance and fitness reimbursement
Referral bonus program
And much more