Sr. Systems Engineer - Wintel Engineer

Job Description

Description

At Exelon, we've got a place for you!

Join the nation's leading competitive energy provider, with one of the largest electricity generation portfolios and retail customer bases in the country. You will be part of a family of companies that strives for the highest standards of power generation, competitive energy sales, and energy delivery. Our team of outstanding professionals is focused on performance, thought leadership, innovation, and the power of ideas that come from a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Exelon will provide you the tools and resources you need to design, build and enhance a successful career. We are also dedicated to motivating the success of our employees through competitive base salary, incentives, and health and retirement benefits.

Join Exelon and share your passion at a forward-thinking Fortune 100 company. Establish yourself in a place where you can truly shine and create a brighter, more sustainable tomorrow. Energize your career at Exelon!
 

PRIMARY DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Establish direction and determine need for IT assessments, designs, connectivity, validating the connectivity of various hosting vendors and deployment of associated technologies. Provide consulting, guidance and recommendations to senior leadership within these areas. Conduct technical discovery sessions with vendors and customers. Lead and coordinate business projects, planning, maintenance, and network connectivity for one or more major Business Units. Establish the design, configuration, deployment and operation of [cloud and non-cloud based] systems and assist with the migration of existing applications to new cloud hosting platforms. Provide expert-level IT systems engineering, design and operation consultation with leadership, project teams and end users to identify system requirements and establish feasibility analysis on potential changes related to security and technical architecture.
• Collaborate with leadership and others to develop future technology road maps, resource requirements, migration strategies, and project schedules. Develop and provide input into presentations and/or Engineering and Architecture Review Boards. Participate in potential refactoring, refresh, or redesign required during [cloud] migrations. Create documentation to install, replace, and upgrade [cloud] components and other application hosting solutions. Comprehend technologies and service offerings within the industry. Create requirement documents, SOW, logical & physical architecture diagrams, and implementation plans to integrate in business environments.
• Determine need and initiate product & service evaluation, testing, lab and mockup solutions as needed. Serve as a senior resource (Subject Matter Expert) [in the Hybrid Cloud enterprise journey] encompassing ongoing architecture, design, planning, configuration, implementation, testing and documentation of the enterprise IT systems hosting environment. Contribute to assigned IT projects and deployments to ensure solutions are delivered to meet business requirements. Accountable for engineering, implementing and supporting solutions at the component level, including hands-on configuration, troubleshooting and optimization and supporting metrics for the same.
• Understanding of change management principles associated with sustaining high availability of systems and preventing change related incidents due to human performance factors.
• Takes good directions from Team Leads and Manager in performing required work.
• Makes well-thought-out decisions on complex or ambiguous issues.
• Provide and formalize feedback to leadership and peers to risks identified during business impact analysis, site risk assessments and disaster recovery planning. Assess, develop, design & support custom system integration with platforms, specific to the needs of the customers. Maintain relevancy and knowledge in current and evolving emerging application & hosting technologies.
• Continuous improvement with technical knowledge, industry trends and business acumen within all IT disciplines or functions.
• Manage, Design and Provide Oversight for Microsoft Windows 2008-2019 servers from both a hardware and operating system standpoint.
• Manage, Design and Provide Oversight for VMware vSphere hypervisor to allow hosting of servers in a virtualized highly available environment.

POSITION SCOPE

• Position interacts with all levels of employees, including executives, vendors, involved in the design, connectivity, maintenance, review, approval, testing and communication of business plans.
• Position has expertise in Microsoft and or VMware technologies
• Position has senior level expertise and design competency in platform or application area of expertise, and tools/systems associated with these functions.
• 24/7 on-call rotational duties
• Work under minimal supervision.
• Mentors junior-level team members and others.

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree (Computer Science or related field) and 5 – 8 years' experience (IT infrastructure design, application design, [cloud computing], disaster/recovery, etc.) or 9 – 12 years equivalent job experience.
• Demonstrated consulting, presentation, and project management skills.
• Demonstrated expert proficiency in at least one engineering domains such as storage, compute, collaboration, application design, [cloud hosting and related technologies]
• Ability to travel domestically.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience administrating servers on-prem (physical and virtual) and in Microsoft Azure
• Experience with scripting language such as PowerShell
• Certifications such as Azure Administrator, VMware, and Windows Server preferred.

• Demonstrated ability with knowledge in current versions of VMware hypervisor technology.
• Working level knowledge: Backups, RAID, SAN, and NAS storage

• Excellent communications skills - Able to effectively communicate highly technical information in non-technical terminology (written and verbal).
• Independence level: works under supervision of Team Leads and/or Manager.

Exelon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and employees or applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to: age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

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