Systems Engineer-Cloud & Infrastructure

Oakland County•Waterford, MI

22h•$109,529 - $146,747•Hybrid

About The Position

Oakland County is more than just a workplace. It is a place where you can make a real difference. As one of Michigan’s leading public service organizations, we are committed to strengthening communities, delivering essential services, and improving the quality of life for nearly 1.3 million residents. When you join our team, you become part of a mission-driven workforce guided by integrity, innovation, and a passion for public service. We offer competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to do meaningful work that matters. Apply today and help shape the future of Oakland County, where we are All Ways Moving Forward. For more information about Oakland County benefits and employee perks, please visit: https://www.oakgov.com/government/human-resources/benefits/new-hire General Summary $109,529-$146,747 Hybrid, Waterford, MI Ready to design and power modern cloud environments that support an entire community? We’re looking for a Systems Engineer with strong cloud expertise to help lead the evolution of our enterprise infrastructure across County and partner agencies. What You’ll Do • Design and implement secure cloud and hybrid-cloud solutions across platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Windows Server Hybrid environments. • Lead cloud migrations, workload modernization, and integration with on-prem systems (Active Directory, backup, monitoring, disaster recovery). • Build scalable infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and DevOps practices to standardize and accelerate deployments. • Engineer and optimize cloud-based compute, storage, networking, identity, and security services with a focus on performance, cost management, and compliance. • Conduct proofs-of-concept, evaluate emerging technologies, and influence enterprise standards. • Strengthen security through audits, patching, system hardening, and collaboration with security teams. • Provide leadership during projects and incident response—including participation in a shared on-call rotation. ________________________________________ Why You’ll Love It • Make a real impact. Your cloud designs directly support public services across the County and partner communities. • Modernize at scale. Drive automation, DevOps maturity, and hybrid-cloud strategy in a complex enterprise environment. • Lead innovation. Evaluate and implement next-generation technologies—not just maintain legacy systems. • Collaborate with purpose. Work alongside skilled technical teams, vendors, and leadership on meaningful initiatives. • Grow your expertise. Expand your influence across cloud architecture, automation, security, and enterprise modernization. If you're passionate about building resilient, secure, and automated cloud environments that serve an entire region, this is your opportunity to engineer infrastructure that truly matters

Requirements

a. Possess a Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
b. Have had at least five (5) years of full‑time work experience in one or more of the following areas: Server administration applied to Servers using Microsoft Windows Operating System, server virtualization, and/or server hardware platforms, Software implementation and maintenance using Microsoft or virtualization products and technologies, storage administration, Microsoft Active Directory administration and/or Information Security;
OR
a. Possess an Associate’s degree or equivalent education from an accredited college or university in any major.
b. Have had at least seven (7) years of full-time work experience as specified in "1.b."
OR
a. Have had at least ten (10) years of full-time work experience as specified in “1.b.”
NOTE: Possession of the following training certificates will each substitute for six (6) months of the required experience:
a. Windows Server Hybrid
b. AWS Solutions Architect Associate
c. VMware Certified Professional
Ability to communicate to accurately convey information.

Nice To Haves

Experience deploying and maintaining IAC, DevOps, and configuration management technologies.
Considerable knowledge of operating system software and an ability to apply systems analysis and programming techniques to maintain a high level of system performance.
Considerable ability to exercise mature judgment and initiative in analyzing problems and recommending solutions.
Considerable ability to coordinate vendor and technical staff efforts in preparation for hardware and software changes.
Considerable ability to evaluate and report on operating and network system software capabilities, requirements, and potential problems in a timely manner.
Considerable knowledge of and ability to utilize current word processing, spreadsheet, database, e-mail and Internet software.
Reasonable knowledge of communications software and communications control equipment.
Microsoft certification, VMware certification, AWS certification.
Reasonable knowledge of Active Directory administration, including logging into trusted domains and adding or removing servers from domains, as well as managing internal and external DNS.
Reasonable knowledge of networking concepts, including OSI layers 2–5 and a general understanding of VLANs, NATs, and Routing.

Responsibilities

Design and implement secure cloud and hybrid-cloud solutions across platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Windows Server Hybrid environments.
Lead cloud migrations, workload modernization, and integration with on-prem systems (Active Directory, backup, monitoring, disaster recovery).
Build scalable infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and DevOps practices to standardize and accelerate deployments.
Engineer and optimize cloud-based compute, storage, networking, identity, and security services with a focus on performance, cost management, and compliance.
Conduct proofs-of-concept, evaluate emerging technologies, and influence enterprise standards.
Strengthen security through audits, patching, system hardening, and collaboration with security teams.
Provide leadership during projects and incident response—including participation in a shared on-call rotation.
Performs complex installation and configuration of hardware, operating systems, and applications, including new models of existing equipment, and new technologies to the County environment.
Develops installation and configuration procedures.
Thoroughly proficient in system administration for more than one system / technology.
Under general direction, performs system administration tasks on one or more systems / technologies.
Applies in-depth knowledge of many product(s) / technologies to design effective solutions for moderate to complex system needs.
Identifies flaws and needs in the current environment and team member plans and designs, and develops solutions.
Works with third party vendors to validate plans and designs, which may be reviewed by more senior team members as needed.
Applies product or environment knowledge to create technical reference documentation to be used by team members.
Validates product, procedural, and/or referential documentation for team members.
Recommends a product from a group of products within a technology for standards adoption based on knowledge, experience, and evaluation.
Evaluates and recommends new technologies for implementation.
Reports virus and intrusion incidents using the County's forms and procedures.
Appropriately classifies data and follows data handling procedures.
Properly fills out and handles security and system administration forms and/or documentation.
Performs audits of systems to validate security controls and procedures.
Develops controls and/or security designs for handling sensitive data.
Implements appropriate controls for handling sensitive data.
Provides timely project updates to project manager; including task level information (status, ETC, duration, and start and completion dates), issues, and scope changes.
Works with the project manager to estimate task durations and effort for new projects and develops the work breakdown structure by defining tasks, milestones, and dependencies.
Uses Clarity to manage project documentation.
Appropriately tracks time to tasks.
Notifies project manager of issues with time tracking.
Authors team documentation, including forms, templates, and examples for team members.
Develops detailed technical documentation that is clear, concise, and accurate.
Develops documents with proper sentence structure, grammar, and spelling.
Reviews team member documentation for clarity and quality.
Develops simple to complex presentations pulling data from multiple sources to communicate information and persuade audience members.
Presents materials within and outside of the team.
Presents technical information with ease, and includes audience participation, along with question and answer time.
Contacts vendors to obtain resources, equipment, and/or pricing, as well as initiate or follow-up on incidents.
Applies patches and upgrades, and performs hardware maintenance on County standard system components.
Monitors problem management system for assigned incidents.
Regularly updates problem management system incidents.
Appropriately reassigns problem management system incidents.
Under general direction or independently, executes test scripts, documents results, and escalates issues as needed.
Participates in the development of or independently develops test scripts.
Designs, installs, and configures complex infrastructure systems, including operating systems, virtualization, storage, and backup platforms.
Participates in the development of test plans providing input in at least one of the following categories: test goals, test cases, test environment, test schedule, test resources, test process, and test measurements.
With participation from team members, authors test plans covering the following categories: test goals, test cases, test environment, test schedule, test resources, test process, and test measurements.
Performs problem analysis of identified outages of a routine nature, and usually identifies the root cause, using a variety of diagnostic tools and methods for routine and moderately complex, and problems.
Resolves problems by performing established corrective action procedures and resolves problems not correctable by established procedures.
Evaluates new technologies through research and proofs-of-concept, contributing to standards development and modernization efforts.
Utilizes performance management tools to analyze data, identify trends, and identify performance problems, and recommend / specify performance thresholds.
Identifies, evaluates, and specifies performance management tools for team use.
Installs and configures performance management tools for optimal use.
Leverages Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Desired State Configuration (DSC) to automate and standardize deployment processes.
Integrates DevOps practices to improve system reliability and accelerate delivery of infrastructure solutions.
Utilizes current countywide and/or department specific software to complete assignments.
Designs, implements, and maintains cloud and hybrid-cloud infrastructure solutions in alignment with County standards and security requirements.
Applies knowledge of public, private, and hybrid cloud platforms to support scalable, resilient, and secure services.
Evaluates cloud services and designs for suitability, cost effectiveness, performance, and compliance.
Implements and administers cloud-based compute, storage, networking, identity, and security services.
Integrates cloud platforms with on-premises infrastructure, including directory services, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
Develops and maintains cloud design documentation, standards, and operational procedures.
Performs migration planning and execution for workloads transitioning to cloud or hybrid environments.
Monitors cloud resource utilization and performance, identifies optimization opportunities, and recommends improvements related to cost management, scalability, and reliability.
Collaborates with security and compliance teams to ensure cloud solutions meet County policies and regulatory requirements.
Designs, implements, administers, and supports enterprise storage and virtualization platforms to ensure high availability, performance, scalability, and data protection.
Performs capacity planning, performance tuning, and lifecycle management for storage and virtualization environments.
Installs, configures, and maintains virtualization platforms, including host systems, virtual machines, clusters, and associated management tools.
Administers enterprise storage systems, including block, file, and object storage, and integrates storage solutions with backup, recovery, and disaster recovery platforms.
Develops standards, best practices, and operational procedures for storage and virtualization technologies.
Monitors system health, identifies performance bottlenecks, and resolves complex storage and virtualization-related issues.
Evaluates new storage and virtualization technologies through research and proofs-of-concept to support modernization and standardization initiatives.
Designs, develops, and maintains automation solutions to improve efficiency, reliability, consistency, and scalability of infrastructure and system operations.
Identifies opportunities to automate manual and repetitive tasks across system administration, provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and remediation activities.
Develops and maintains automation workflows, scripts, and templates using scripting languages, orchestration tools, IaC frameworks, and version control systems such as Git.
Leverages DevOps principles to support continuous improvement, collaboration, and repeatability across County technology teams.
Integrates automation with configuration management, monitoring, incident management, and change management processes, supporting modern DevOps practices including source control, peer review, and automated testing where applicable.
Contributes to the growth and maturity of County DevOps practices by promoting reusable code, and automation-driven operational models.
Establishes standards and best practices for automation development, testing, documentation, version control, and lifecycle management.
Ensures automation solutions are secure, auditable, and aligned with County policies.
Continuously evaluates emerging automation and DevOps technologies and methodologies to enhance operational effectiveness and support County modernization efforts.
Represents team in cross-team meetings providing input as needed.
As necessary, contact customers to coordinate project tasks and incident handling.
Interfaces with management on incidents, projects, and technology topics.
Using existing training materials and/or developing new materials, mentors team members on many products, and/or procedures.
Obtains purchasing estimates for services, equipment, and/or staffing for budgeting purposes, following the purchasing processes and chooses the appropriate course of action.
May author Requests for Proposals, and may participate in the Request for Proposal process, including vendor selection.