What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior System Engineer position at System One?
Senior Systems & Platform Engineer (Primary IT)
Location: Fully Remote
Type: 6-Month Contract-to-Hire
Contact: Cdinnocenti@altaits.com
Role Purpose
As the Senior Systems & Platform Engineer, you will be the technical owner of our Azure ecosystem and platform reliability. Your mission is to oversee performance, security, cost, automation, and incident response. You will translate operations telemetry into architectural improvements and ensure the platform remains in a continuous state of audit-readiness.
Core Responsibilities
Technical Requirements
Must-Have Skills
System One, and its subsidiaries including Joulé, ALTA IT Services, and Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.
System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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Location: Fully Remote
Type: 6-Month Contract-to-Hire
Contact: Cdinnocenti@altaits.com
Role Purpose
As the Senior Systems & Platform Engineer, you will be the technical owner of our Azure ecosystem and platform reliability. Your mission is to oversee performance, security, cost, automation, and incident response. You will translate operations telemetry into architectural improvements and ensure the platform remains in a continuous state of audit-readiness.
Core Responsibilities
- Azure Architecture & Operations: Manage VM/SQL sizing, scaling, automated patching, backups, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Security & Networking: Direct oversight of VNets, firewalls/NSGs, VPN/HTTPS protocols, Azure Key Vault, and identity management.
- Compliance & ClearDATA Coordination: Partner with ClearDATA for alert remediation, gathering audit evidence, and ensuring strict policy alignment.
- Observability & Reliability: Utilize Log Analytics and App Insights to manage alert routing, maintain SLO dashboards, and lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) efforts.
- Security Lifecycle Management: Manage certificate/domain/DNS lifecycles, conduct access reviews, perform hardening, and lead vulnerability management.
- Disaster Recovery (DR/BCP): Define backup policies, execute restore tests, maintain failover runbooks, and report on RTO/RPO metrics.
- Release & Automation: Establish environment readiness gates, conduct rollback rehearsals, and leverage PowerShell, Azure CLI, Bicep, or Terraform for task automation.
- Leadership & Collaboration: Mentor IT Ops Analysts, enforce change control standards, and partner with the Integrations team to ensure Rhapsody infrastructure resiliency and throughput.
Technical Requirements
Must-Have Skills
- Cloud Engineering: 5–8 years of experience in cloud systems engineering with a heavy focus on Azure.
- Database Administration: Proven experience in SQL Server administration.
- Identity & Networking: Strong grasp of SAML/OIDC, cloud networking, and certificate management.
- Incident Management: Experience acting as an Incident Commander, authoring RCAs, and supporting audits (HIPAA, SOC2, or HITRUST).
- Automation: Advanced proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and a performance-tuning mindset.
- Infrastructure knowledge of Rhapsody or Mirth.
- Experience with BI/Report platform deployments.
System One, and its subsidiaries including Joulé, ALTA IT Services, and Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.
System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
#M1
#LI-CD1
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Ref: #851-Rockville-S1