A global financial institution is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to provide technical leadership across its enterprise virtualization, compute, and virtual desktop infrastructure. This Vice President-level position combines team leadership with direct engineering responsibility in a large, production-critical environment.
The engineer will help establish team priorities, resolve complex infrastructure issues, improve platform health, and strengthen operational standards. The role covers virtualization, physical compute, VDI infrastructure, capacity, monitoring, automation, disaster recovery, hardware lifecycle, and configuration governance.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead and guide a group of infrastructure engineers while remaining actively involved in technical delivery.
Administer enterprise VMware environments, including vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, clusters, hosts, and virtual machines.
Support enterprise server platforms and coordinate hardware maintenance, upgrades, break/fix activity, and vendor escalations.
Maintain the stability and performance of the infrastructure supporting enterprise virtual desktop services.
Troubleshoot complex production incidents and implement permanent corrective actions.
Monitor platform capacity, utilization, health, and performance across multiple infrastructure layers.
Automate provisioning, reporting, compliance validation, and repeatable operational processes.
Support disaster-recovery planning, testing, documentation, and recovery readiness.
Maintain accurate infrastructure records within configuration-management systems.
Coordinate technical work across compute, storage, network, desktop engineering, and service-management teams.
Role Requirements:
Extensive hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, vCenter, and ESXi.
Ability to troubleshoot complex VMware issues in a large production environment.
Strong experience supporting enterprise physical server hardware.
Knowledge of server lifecycle management, firmware, break/fix procedures, and vendor escalation.
Experience leading technical staff while continuing to perform hands-on engineering work.
Strong incident-management and root-cause-analysis experience.
Understanding of enterprise storage concepts and how storage resources support virtualized environments.
Experience working within financial services.
Strong communication, prioritization, and stakeholder-management skills.
Ability to make sound decisions and remain composed during high-severity incidents.
Ability to work onsite in Iselin, New Jersey, according to the hybrid schedule.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE
Experience with Omnissa Horizon or VMware Horizon.
Experience with App Volumes or Workspace ONE.
PowerShell or PowerCLI scripting experience.
Experience with Zerto or another replication technology.
Familiarity with VMware Aria Operations.
ServiceNow, CMDB, ITSM, or ITIL experience.
Disaster-recovery or business-continuity testing experience.
Numbers & Facts
Location
Iselin, NJ
Skills
Automationunmatched
Capacity Utilizationunmatched
Communication Skillsunmatched
Computer Firmwareunmatched
Computer Maintenanceunmatched
Configuration Managementunmatched
Corrective Actionunmatched
Desktop PCunmatched
Desktop Virtualizationunmatched
Disaster Recoveryunmatched
Documentationunmatched
Enterprise Computingunmatched
Establish Prioritiesunmatched
Financial Servicesunmatched
Global Financial Marketsunmatched
Hardware Configuration Managementunmatched
Hardware Upgradesunmatched
IT Service Management (ITSM)unmatched
ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library)unmatched
Identify Issuesunmatched
Incident Managementunmatched
Leadershipunmatched
Operations Processesunmatched
Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
Production Systemsunmatched
Record Keepingunmatched
Replication and Remote Mirroringunmatched
Root Cause Analysisunmatched
Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
Server Hardwareunmatched
Server Supportunmatched
ServiceNowunmatched
Systems Engineeringunmatched
Team Buildingunmatched
Team Lead/Managerunmatched
Technical Deliveryunmatched
Technical Leadershipunmatched
Testingunmatched
VMWareunmatched
VMWare ESX/ESXiunmatched
VMWare vCenterunmatched
VMWare vSphereunmatched
Virtual Hostingunmatched
Virtual Machine (VM)unmatched
Virtualizationunmatched
Windows PowerShellunmatched
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