Systems Engineer
San Mateo, CA
Category: Development
Industry: Technology
Standard Hours: Open
Reference ID: JN -112026-109375
Date Posted: 11/04/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/wU68Y3
Description:
On-site in San Mateo, CA
Our client seeks a seasoned Systems Engineer to implement and operate core infrastructure across identity, compute, storage, and hybrid cloud. The role will deliver resilient services, automate deployments, and lead defined-scope initiatives while collaborating with cybersecurity and network engineering. The engineer will support Windows and Linux platforms, on-premises data centers, and integrations with AWS and Azure.
This is a contract to hire opportunity. Applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis and convert to FTE following contract duration. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $90.00 to $100.00/hr. w2
JN -112026-109375
Responsibilities:
- Serve as an experienced technical resource on the Cloud & Infrastructure team to implement solutions and resolve complex challenges.
- Deploy, administer, and optimize Active Directory and identity services including domain services, Group Policy, DNS, authentication, replication, and cloud identity integration.
- Operate and maintain enterprise compute, virtualization, and storage infrastructure for business, engineering, and mission-critical workloads.
- Administer and optimize enterprise storage platforms for capacity, performance, availability, data protection, replication, and lifecycle management.
- Support compute platforms across data centers, colocation sites, offices, and hybrid cloud environments including virtualization, GPU-accelerated infrastructure, and VDI.
- Engineer and maintain Windows and Linux server infrastructure across data center, colocation, office, and cloud environments.
- Deploy and maintain data center and colocation infrastructure, including rack-level deployments, hardware lifecycle, resiliency, and coordination with internal teams and providers.
- Perform capacity planning and sizing for new workloads, engineering environments, site expansions, and data center deployments.
- Implement and improve backup, disaster recovery, and resiliency including replication, RTO/RPO, testing, documentation, and exercises.
- Implement and maintain monitoring and observability for availability, capacity, performance, and reliability with proactive improvements.
- Develop automation and repeatable deployment patterns using Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar.
- Support integration between on-premises infrastructure and AWS/Azure and containerized or Kubernetes-based infrastructure where appropriate.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex incidents and act as an escalation point for production issues.
- Participate in on-call, emergency response, and planned maintenance.
- Partner with Cybersecurity on hardening, vulnerability remediation, access controls, and compliance.
- Partner with Network Engineering on connectivity and dependencies with clear ownership boundaries.
- Lead infrastructure projects and initiatives from design through implementation including documentation and handoff.
- Share knowledge and provide guidance to junior engineers while remaining hands-on.
- Contribute to standards, architecture documentation, operational procedures, and engineering best practices.
Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
- 6+ years of experience engineering and supporting enterprise infrastructure in production.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Active Directory including AD DS, Group Policy, DNS, authentication, and replication.
- Experience with enterprise compute, virtualization, and storage such as VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell EMC, or equivalents.
- Strong Windows Server administration and working proficiency with Linux such as RHEL or Ubuntu.
- Experience implementing backup, replication, disaster recovery, and business continuity with RTO/RPO planning and testing.
- Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar.
- Experience supporting hybrid infrastructure across on-premises and AWS and/or Azure.
- Demonstrated delivery of complex technical projects, adherence to and improvement of standards, strong troubleshooting in ambiguous situations, and mentorship.
- Effective written and verbal communication for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Preferred: Experience in high-availability, mission-critical, manufacturing, aerospace, defense, or engineering environments.
- Preferred: Storage and data protection ecosystems such as NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell EMC, or equivalents.
- Preferred: Multi-site support across offices, engineering sites, labs, and data centers or colocation.
- Preferred: Kubernetes or containerized workloads and supporting infrastructure.
- Preferred: GPU compute, high-performance computing, or accelerated engineering workloads.
- Preferred: VDI platforms such as VMware Horizon, Citrix, or Azure Virtual Desktop.
- Preferred: Understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, VLANs, and firewalls.
- Preferred: Operating in security-conscious or regulated environments with frameworks such as NIST or CMMC.
- Preferred: Certifications such as VMware VCP, Microsoft, NetApp, AWS, or Azure.
Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please ensure that you are working directly with us by confirming the following:
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· Eliassen Group will never ask you for personal information (home address, bank account, or check routing number) until you have worked with someone clearly associated with Eliassen Group.
If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact fraud@eliassen.com.
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