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# Systems Engineer

- **Company:** Pinnacle Partners
- **Location:** Fort Wayne, IN, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $80,000.0 - $100,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Online Services, Databases, Disaster Recovery, Hyper-V, Networking Hardware, System Center Configuration Manager, Network Configuration and Change Management, Paessler Router Traffic Grapher, Information Technology, Vmware
- **Published:** November 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.com/details/5944337779

## About the Role

* 5+ years of systems engineering experience in the Microsoft ecosystem
 * Experience in a hybrid on-prem/Azure environment
 * Experience with VMware (Hyper-V experience also considered)
 * SCCM experience for patching, OS upgrades, and application updates/deployments
 * Monitoring experience with PRTG or a similar tool

Preferred:

 * Experience completing a VMware to Hyper-V migration
 * Experience mentoring junior teammates (service desk)
 * Experience in a regulated environment
 * Bachelor's Degree

## Description

We are seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to serve as a technical leader and go-to resource for our client's IT infrastructure team. This role will play a critical part in delivering infrastructure projects, keeping systems stable and secure, and mentoring the team that supports end users., * Offer technical direction and oversight to system administrators

 * Handle daily monitoring, maintenance, and administration of assigned systems, applications, servers, clients, and network devices
 * Track infrastructure performance, availability, and security
 * Act as technical lead during major incidents to restore failed systems, and deliver root cause analysis afterward
 * Work escalated support tickets and guide lower support tiers
 * Keep management, development teams, end users, and business leaders informed of issues and impacts
 * Advise business stakeholders on getting the most from current applications
 * Evaluate, update, and deploy client system software
 * Maintain and improve the performance of new and existing systems, databases, and applications
 * Support ongoing system patching
 * Lead IT projects from initiation through closeout, and own assigned IT work on enterprise projects alongside project managers
 * Take part in disaster recovery planning, preparation, and execution
 * Maintain documentation for network configuration, mapping, processes, and service records
 * Participate in an on-call rotation
 * Stay current on technology trends through workshops, user groups, and conferences