Our client is currently looking for a Systems Engineer to be responsible for all servers, server-side software, and infrastructure equipment. This includes, but not limited to, infrastructure planning, system monitoring, contingency planning, business continuity, security, performance tuning, software distribution, connectivity and production support.

This is an excellent opportunity for the Systems Engineer to serve as a technical Resource for small and large scale projects, working under limited direction with extensive latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment. It will also include the responsibility for mentoring team members and providing training, additionally providing technological guidance to management staff and participate in a 24/7 on-call support rotation.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (but not limited to)

* Define pre-defined hardware configurations
* Serve as an interface to the application development teams for troubleshooting potential hardware problems
* Prepare to deploy fixes to servers and workstations in response to a newly identified stability or security threat of hardware and software
* Work with business continuity specialists in the creation of business impact analysis
* Drive licensing and compliancy requirements definition
* Achieve identified metric goals
* Assisting in the creation of strategic and long term planning based on identified business requirements
* Design, operation, and maintenance of the infrastructure
* Create database models and designs using appropriate software tools
* Create and document maintenance plans
* Create, document and implement disaster recovery and (business continuity) testing
* Design and document replication schemas
* Design security architectures for DB
* Produce system designs
* Know and understand clustering services, high availability solutions and continuous data protection technologies
* Understand at least one database management system to include bundled tools and processes for administering it
* Define Active Directory design, group policies, and domain maintenance
* Drive continuous improvement through trend reporting analysis and metrics management

The ideal candidate should be degree qualified and have one or more advanced technical certifications (such as MCSE, CISSP), however this is not essential and consideration will be given to those candidates with applicable skills and experience.