A Los Angeles-based law firm with an international presence has a current need for a Senior Systems Engineer to join their global team. As one of the world’s leading law firms, our client seeks dynamic individuals who share our commitment to service, innovation, and professional growth.
The Senior Systems Engineer is a member of a team of senior systems engineers and is an expert in core infrastructure technologies including networking, storage, compute, messaging and mobility systems, cloud-based services, and operational security. The Senior Systems Engineer develops, implements and maintains expert technical solutions for all new and existing systems.
In this capacity, the Senior Systems Engineer will:
- Design, implement and manage Firm systems including networks, storage, Exchange, physical and virtual servers, Active Directory and Group Policy, Certificate Services, authentication systems, and remote access and mobility systems
- Administer and support cloud-based systems and related services (e.g Azure, Office365, AWS)
- Oversee and ensure the optimal performance of systems.
- Provide expert level support through escalated technical support
- Acts as mentor to other IT internal team members in the areas of network and system operations across the Firm
- Prepare and distribute technical documentation for all assigned systems and projects involving processes, procedures, troubleshooting guides, training and change management logs
- Establish and maintain relationships with IT external customers, vendors and partners
Qualified Systems Engineers will have:
- Bachelor’s degree and/or advanced degrees in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems or related field (preferred)
- Minimum 5 years working with VMWare technologies
- Minimum of 5 years in the capacity of System Engineer over Microsoft server systems
- Minimum 5 years of experience designing, building, securing and managing virtualization technologies based on the VMWare stack (ESXi, vCenter)
- Experience working with vSAN and NSX
- Minimum of 7 years of systems analysis
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience working with storage technologies.
- Ability to manage enterprise wide technology infrastructure;
- Ability to manage multiple infrastructure components;
- Solid working knowledge of encryption technologies;
- Foundational knowledge of ITIL (certification preferred);
- Working knowledge of Agile, KanBan or similar project methodologies;
- Expert proficiency in design and implementation of IT infrastructure systems in large scale Microsoft Windows-based enterprise environments;
- Expert proficiency in Active Directory design, support and administration;
- Demonstrated advanced knowledge in IP networks (LAN / WAN, MPLS, VPN, VLAN, WiFi) design, engineering and management;
- Expert proficiency in network and storage design and maintenance (SAN – Storage Area Network, NAS – Network Attached Storage);
- Expert proficiency in a variety of systems, servers and protocols (VMware, Windows Server, TCP/IP, DNS, Active Directory);
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Server & third party software patch management;
- Advanced knowledge of PowerShell development for system utilities, automation and administration
- Advanced knowledge of monitoring solutions (Orion, Splunk, vRealize Suite/Aria Operations)
- Advanced knowledge of Enterprise backup software
- Demonstrated advanced knowledge in cyber risk and system hardening
