Eagle Seven is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer to lead a small team with technical design, planning, and implementation of our Microsoft ecosystem based solutions. This role will serve as a technical expert with direct influence over the design and implementation of our systems. The successful candidate will be a self-starter, have a strong sense of ownership and be driven to provide creative and technical solutions to business problems.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Architect, implement, and support physical and virtual servers, database servers, and high performance storage solutions

• Managing and leading systems and infrastructure projects

• Managing the day-to-day administration, support, maintenance and monitoring of the Microsoft Exchange environment

• Evolving our VMware environments to continue meeting our future growth needs

• Staying current with the latest technology trends in the industry; propose, evaluate and implement new solutions

• Serving as a technical expert, driving change to adopt new standards, maintaining reliability and improving performance metrics

• Developing solutions to automate and improve operational reliability and efficiency

• Driving efforts to continuously improve and maintain our Active Directory environment

• Providing technical expertise and guidance to improve existing hardware strategy including standards, life-cycle periods, vendor management and capacity planning

Requirements

• Strong understanding of architecting and configuring Microsoft Windows OS technology including AD Forests, Domains, Trusts, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy and Organizational Units

• Proven expertise in designing and architecting domain consolidation projects

• Managing the day-to-day administration, support, maintenance and monitoring of the Microsoft Exchange infrastructure

• Experience with WSUS for windows patch management, including drivers and firmware

• Previous automated software provisioning, operating system distribution and asset management

• Architectural design knowledge of storage and backup technologies

• Strong working knowledge of virtualization solutions

• Experience with configuration management systems, such as Salt, Ansible, Puppet, Chef

• Regular work exposure to Python and Git version control

• Previous cloud experience

• Functional knowledge of SQL and working with databases is desirable

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks with high attention to detail in a fast-paced environment

• Motivated to identify and problem solve issues in a timely manner

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to develop and present ideas clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical team members

• High degree of flexibility and adaptability; comfortable in a dynamic working environment

• Knowledge of the financial industry is preferred

Benefits

Eagle Seven offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to all full-time employees.

• Medical PPO and HMO coverage through BlueCross BlueShield

• Company Contributions to a Health Savings Account (with enrollment into a High Deductible Health Plan)

• Dental coverage through Principal

• Vision coverage through VSP

• 401k Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Match

• Company Paid Life Insurance

• Company Paid Disability Insurance

• Paid Time Off

• Flexible Spending Account

• Pre-tax Transit Benefits

• Complimentary Lunch, Snacks, and Beverages

• Access to Renovated Building Gym and Bike Room