IT Systems Engineer

Our client is a Houston-based, privately held consulting, back-office outsourcing, and IT outsourcing firm that delivers services exclusively to the upstream and midstream oil and gas industry. They are known as one of the oil and gas industry’s leading partners and support clients of all sizes through every stage of their company’s lifecycle.

The person in this role is expected to be a self-starter with analytical, problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills. Strong time management, written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate with individuals at all levels of the organization, are essential along with the ability to work as part of a growing team.

All members of the Internal IT team are expected to demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills, actively participate in our team environment, communicate with our customers in a professional and service-oriented manner and identify process improvement and optimization opportunities. All team members must be able to handle changing priorities, new

challenges, and multi-tasking.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

As an IT Systems Engineer, your role will include:

Managing various environments (internal and customer).

Providing advanced technical guidance to the Internal Service Desk team.

Developing project plans and directing work for yourself and other staff to meet internal

project timelines and deliverables.

Leading or assisting in network modeling, analysis, planning, and coordination between

network and data communications hardware and software.

Administering network security measures, policies, remediation, and security events.

Driving automation and efficiency efforts to improve the overall IT experience for the

Company userbase.

Ensure the operation of the environment and provide needed documentation for SOC 1

and SOC 2 controls and audit.

Design and perform server and security audits, system backup procedures, and other

recovery processes in accordance with the company’s disaster recovery and business

continuity strategies.

Work with other teams, at various level on various projects including but not limited to:Automated Azure resource deployment

Network and security design and implementation

Database provisioning and maintenance

Endpoint Security monitoring and management

Planning, implementing, and managing IAM solutions.

Administering user accounts, permissions, and access controls.

Monitoring activity logs to identify security incidents.

Complying with information security processes and controls.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS (Minimum Qualifications):

Strong experience in at least 3 of the following areas (in order of importance)

Moderate to Advanced networking such as virtual switching, dynamic routing and firewall assessment and implementations

Azure architecture, implementation, and migration experience including Azure

Site Recovery and Migration Services

Windows Server/core services implementation, configuration, and support (Active

Directory, DHCP, DNS, and Backup/Disaster recovery)

Office 365 and Azure AD implementation, configuration, and troubleshooting

SQL server implementations (preparing for applications and installation of the core system, not DBA experience)

Data warehouse provisioning and management, basic SQL server management, SSIS/ADF integration support.

PowerShell scripting experience.

Strong troubleshooting skills in the technical areas listed above.

Linux experience is a plus.

Experience being the primary engineer and project manager for IT projects.

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

Entrepreneurial spirit and self-motivation.

Aptitude to learn new technology, products, and concepts.

Must be eligible to work for ANY employer in the United States; we are unable to sponsor H1B applicants at this time.