IT SYSTEMS & CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER

The Panther Group is seeking a Remote (EST) W2 Contract (long term, multiple years, no end date) SENIOR IT SYSTEMS & CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER, to operate, maintain, and continually improve day-to-day IT operations, infrastructure projects, and provisioning for our proprietary cloud-hosted software platform. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building systems, improving operational efficiency, automating repetitive work, and helping a growing technology company scale., * This is an individual contributor role with broad responsibility to provide administration, technical leadership, and support for both corporate systems and customer-dedicated hosting environments.

• Our team is intentionally lean, giving every employee the opportunity to own meaningful work, influence technical direction, and see the direct impact of their contributions. If you enjoy building systems, improving infrastructure, and helping a growing software company scale, you’ll find both challenge and opportunity here.
• Company is an established leader in its market, and well-known for its innovative, efficient solutions.

Example Tasks

• Setup, configure, monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot IT hardware and software systems, including:
• Public cloud infrastructure: primarily OCI, with Azure and AWS
• Microsoft-based networks: Active Directory, Server 2016/19/22, File service, Hyper-V, Azure, Microsoft 365, Exchange, SharePoint
• Security and compliance: Firewall, anti-virus, vulnerability scanning, SOC 2
• Identity and access management (Active Directory, M365)
• Small data center support: HW monitoring, resource allocation, DMZ
• Backup management, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity
• Provision and support IT infrastructure for proprietary software platform:
• o Customer-dedicated subnets, VMs, file shares, security profiles, backups
• o Virtual machine and pool configuration and management
• o Automate repetitive operational and configuration cloud processes through
• PowerShell, Python, and cloud-native scripting.
• Maintain IT infrastructure for remote corporate staff: internet, email, file service, applications, remote access, workstation configuration; minimal end-user support
• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, operational dashboards, and capacity planning for corporate infrastructure and customer-hosted environments.
• Evaluate, recommend, implement, and document infrastructure improvements for corporate systems and customer-dedicated hosting environments.

• Degree in IT, IS, Network Engineering, CS Required - (Must have a GPA of 3.5 or higher)
• At least 5, ideally 10+ years relevant experience working in an IT function in a company with technology as part of its core business
• Hands-on experience administering Microsoft network infrastructure: Active Directory, Azure, Windows Server, Hyper-V
• Strong PowerShell and Python scripting skills
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch, SQL and general database management
• Strong attention to detail; able to plan, communicate, and work independently
• Comfortable working as a hands-on senior individual contributor in a mid-sized IT environment, including direct administration, scripting, troubleshooting, documentation, and routine operational work
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills
• East coast US time zone preferred
• US citizenship and ability to qualify for low-level federal security clearance (includes criminal, credit, and employment background checks and seven-year residency disclosure)
• No travel anticipated.

Significant Plusses

• Backup systems configuration, management and maintenance
• Experience provisioning OCI, Azure, AWS, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Exchange
• Experience provisioning cloud-hosted VMs, networking and storage
• Experience administering Elasticsearch, MySQL
• Experience implementing compliance with SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, etc

Pay Rate is $55 - $65 an hour on contract DOE