Senior Systems Engineer

Location:         Vernon Hills, IL     

Department:    IT 

Direct Reports/Manages others:  No

Senior Systems Engineer, Cloud and Compute (for our Cloud and On-Prem Engineering and Operations team)

We’re looking for a hands-on Senior Systems Engineer to join our high-performing Cloud and Compute engineering team at a multibillion-dollar global organization. If you thrive in complex enterprise environments and enjoy solving technical challenges at scale, this is the role for you.

This position plays a key role in architecting, implementing, and optimizing our hybrid infrastructure, including Azure Cloud, VMware, Hyper-V, Storage and Windows Server platforms. You’ll drive forward key modernization initiatives such as:

• Upgrading to Windows Server 2025
• Migrating and building workloads in Azure as part of our cloud transformation journey
• Modernizing and upgrading our ESXi infrastructure
• And more exciting, high-impact projects across our global footprint

In this role, you’ll contribute to the technical direction of application hosting, storage, virtualization, and disaster recovery. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally with teams across infrastructure, application development, networking and security to ensure scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions. If you're passionate about infrastructure modernization, cloud adoption, and continuous improvement, and you bring deep technical expertise with a strategic mindset, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Design, optimize, and implement application hosting solutions in both Azure cloud and on-premise data centers that meet the demands of the business.
• Evaluate the current and upcoming infrastructure stack from a security perspective and provide hardening recommendations.
• Virtualization and Windows optimization & performance
• Active Directory domain consolidations 
• Coordinates and supports information security efforts in server, virtualization and storage. This includes working with application developers and database administrators to plan and implement application security within application environments. Thus providing guidance on risks and vulnerabilities related to common application protocols, web services security, and end user systems.
• Scripting and automation of application hosting and storage maintenance
• Disaster and Site Recovery
• Take part in life cycle management/ refresh of equipment
• Systems management and alerting, which may include nonbusiness hours on-call support rotation as needed.
• Collaborate with network services, software systems engineering and/or application development to restore service and/or identify problems
• Assist with other facets of IT operations and projects as needed. 

Qualifications: 

• 10+ years in engineering role for application hosting for global entities with $3B+ in annual revenue.
• 10+ years with MS Server and Virtualization platforms (VMWare & MS Hypervisor) 
• 10+ years with mass storage units (HP Storage, IBM storage, etc.) 
• 10+ years with ITIL processes and industry best practices for application hosting
• 5+ years with Azure IaaS and PaaS experience 
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent education.
• Excellent oral and written communication
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to manage and deliver multiple priorities in a timely fashion.
• Ability to support cross-team collaboration to ensure your focus area integrates with the overall solutions.
• Experience with IBM Power Systems and AS400 is a plus.
• MCSE, Security, ITIL, and/or Azure certifications are a plus. 

Salary: $145,000 - $170,000, bonus eligible 

From big benefits to small, we take care of our associates!  After 30 days of employment, you will be eligible for a benefits package that includes medical, dental, life, disability and business travel insurance, flexible spending accounts, EAP, stock purchases and vacation/sick days/parental leave. We also offer a 401(k) plan after three months of employment. Associates are vested in the RPM Pension plan after completing five years of service.  Rust-Oleum offers 9 paid holidays and one floating holiday per year.  You are also eligible to earn three weeks of vacation on an annualized basis.

Rust-Oleum is an equal opportunity employer. Employment selection and related decisions are made without regard to sex, race, age, disability, religion, national origin, color, or any other protected class.