System Engineer

Riverbend Industries•Houston, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The IT System Engineer serves to help our business achieve its goals and support its customers in North America. In this role, the successful individual will protect our critical information, systems, and assets, build solutions, implement new software and hardware, provide training, and assist in the development of an overall IT strategy. From early on, you’ll help empower our breakthrough innovations, be given challenging assignments, lead initiatives, and take ownership and responsibility. And you’ll receive world-class training to help you become a leader in your field. Our ideal candidate will be passionate about applying their skills to a technology-based business model that creates and delivers real-world solutions for our internal customers. This is a 100% on-site position, requiring the employee to work on-site five (5) days per week at our facility.

Requirements

Minimum Equivalent related work experience and knowledge (minimum)
Advanced knowledge of Microsoft products and Windows Server OS
3+ years of relevant experience (required)
Experience with Microsoft Office 365 Suite
Migrating all types of mail (Exchange On-premise, Gmail, etc)
Migrating all O365 services, Sharepoint, Onedrive, Teams
Intune or other MDM
Experience with Microsoft stack, Hyper-V, VMware, SQL Server, IIS
Experience with or knowledge of programming languages and operating systems; current equipment and technologies, enterprise backup and recovery procedures, system performance-monitoring tools, active directories, virtualization, HTTP traffic, content delivery, and caching
Capability of traveling for a full 5 business days
Willingness to deliver tough deadlines such as migrating systems
Experience in project management, application design and integration, and cloud computing (specifically Microsoft Azure)
Cisco Meraki Firewall, switches, wireless, installing and managing
Manage enterprise datacenter hardware and software including compute, storage, backup, DR.
Hands on experience managing all layers hardware, hypervisor, virtual machine, os, application
Required to be in on-call rotation and occasionally respond to after-hours system outage
Expertise in creating, analyzing, and repairing large-scale distributed systems
Robust experience managing datacenter infrastructure and applications on-premise or in cloud
Ability to lift at least 50 lbs

Nice To Haves

One of the following certifications MCSE, MCITP, CCNA, CISP
Bachelor’s degree in information management (preferred)
5+ years of relevant experience (preferred)

Responsibilities

Own projects, solutions, and key responsibilities within a larger business initiative from project scoping to delivering solution
Handle business-critical IT tasks and systems that enable the business to meet ever changing needs
Enable faster and smarter business processes and implement analytics for meaningful insights
Nurture dependable IT infrastructure and networking that’s always up and running
Partner with internal and external partners to communicate project status, activities, and achievements
Manage incident lifecycle through ticketing system, ensuring infrastructure and end user incidents get resolved fast and to the customers liking
Perform server design and administration tasks, including user/group administration, security permissions, group policies, print services, research event log warnings and errors, and resource monitoring, ensuring system architecture components work together seamlessly
Monitor datacenter health using preexisting management tools and respond to hardware issues as they arise; build, test, and maintain new servers as needed
Maintain and architect internal infrastructure requirements including, servers, routers, switches, firewalls, security updates; support internet, intranet, LANs, WANs, and network segments
Ability to find, manage and select vendors
Interact with the service desk and other teams to assist in troubleshooting, identify root cause, and provide technical support when needed
Perform routine/scheduled audits of the systems, including backups