Senior Systems Engineer (Microsoft/VMware)

Location: Fully remote, but candidates must be able to work permanently for a US employer and reside in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, or Vermont.

Salary: $65–$75 per hour.

Company

hirify.global is a technology services company delivering professional and managed services across hybrid cloud infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, data and AI, autonomous operations, and enterprise service management.

What you will do

• Design, implement, administer, and refine enterprise systems including Exchange, physical and virtual servers, Active Directory, Group Policy, Certificate Services, authentication, compute, networking, storage, and remote access.
• Administer Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Exchange Online, Citrix VDI, load balancers, SSL certificates, and related enterprise platforms.
• Monitor and optimize performance, reliability, scalability, security, maintenance, backup, recovery, and user-facing services.
• Serve as an expert escalation point, participate in on-call support, and provide occasional after-hours work, overtime, or travel as required.
• Document procedures, troubleshooting guides, training materials, change records, data flows, APIs, schemas, and integration logic.
• Support security risk assessments, vulnerability reduction, integration-platform improvements, and data quality and reconciliation efforts.

Requirements

• 10+ years of Systems Engineering experience in enterprise environments, including Microsoft Server.
• 10+ years designing, building, securing, and managing VMware virtualized environments using ESXi and vCenter.
• Hands-on experience with secure Hyperconverged Infrastructure, including Nutanix, Dell VxRail, or HPE.
• Experience administering Citrix VDI, load balancers, SSL certificate management, Exchange Online, Microsoft Azure, and Entra ID.
• Knowledge of enterprise block, file, and object storage, plus backup and recovery platforms such as Rubrik, Cohesity, or Veeam.
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Windows enterprise environments, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, PKI, VMware, Windows Server, TCP/IP, DNS, and related protocols.
• Strong network design and management skills across LAN/WAN, MPLS, VPN, VLAN, and Wi-Fi.
• Knowledge of encryption, cybersecurity risk reduction, system hardening, and advanced PowerShell scripting for automation and administration.
• Experience with monitoring platforms such as SolarWinds, LogicMonitor, Splunk, or Aria, and the ability to manage multiple enterprise infrastructure components concurrently.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer information systems, or a related discipline.
• Advanced degree.

Culture & Benefits

• Six-month contractor-to-permanent opportunity with a client.
• Fully remote work within the specified US states.
• Participation in an after-hours on-call rotation, with occasional overtime, off-hours work, or travel.
• Inclusive equal-opportunity environment with interview accommodations available on request.