Senior Platform Engineer

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Vantage WestCloud infrastructure
Source API remote eligibility restrictions: United StatesFull-TimeSenior
Salary100,568 - 128,224.2 USD per year
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Job Details

Experience
Six (6) years of progressive system administration or platform engineering experience, including highly virtualized environments and Microsoft cloud services.
Required Skills
Microsoft AzureSharePoint

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Six years of progressive system administration or platform engineering experience, including highly virtualized environments and Microsoft cloud services.
  • Working knowledge of Windows Server, directory services, group policy, permissions, authentication, and system configuration.
  • Experience designing, implementing, and supporting Microsoft Azure, Entra ID, Microsoft 365, and related identity, compute, storage, and networking services.
  • Knowledge of hybrid infrastructure, including on-premises systems, cloud services, identity platforms, and network connectivity.
  • Familiarity with backup, restoration, disaster recovery, and business continuity practices.
  • Understanding of IP networking concepts, including firewalls, routers, switches, VPNs, ACLs, DNS, DHCP, routing, VLANs, and troubleshooting.
  • Ability to analyze system data and draw conclusions from logs, monitoring tools, and documented evidence.
  • Ability to interpret technical documentation, implementation guides, diagrams, and operational procedures.
  • Ability to evaluate reliability, performance, security, scalability, and cost trade-offs using engineering judgment and system data.
  • The position may require occasional irregular hours, weekend support, and travel between office locations for system upgrades, maintenance, or related business needs.

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshoot platform issues and restore reliable service across servers, identity platforms, Microsoft 365, Azure, virtualization, storage, and networking.
  • Maintain documentation and change records for support, implementation, troubleshooting, and configuration activities.
  • Engineer and support Microsoft 365 services, including SharePoint, Teams, Exchange Online, OneDrive, workflows, permissions, and integrations.
  • Design and maintain enterprise infrastructure, including Windows servers, virtual machines, cloud resources, storage, and directories.
  • Engineer and support identity and access management services, including Active Directory, Entra ID, group policy, authentication, and related directory services.
  • Develop platform standards, baselines, and procedures for infrastructure and cloud services.
  • Implement automation and standardized practices to reduce manual effort and scale platform operations.
  • Monitor platform health and service performance using logs, alerts, backup results, telemetry, and other system data.
  • Coordinate service recovery and vendor escalations, communicate status, document root cause, and help prevent recurring issues.
  • Coordinate maintenance, planned changes, and infrastructure projects with system owners, application owners, business areas, vendors, and technical teams.
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