Systems Engineer

Southern California is ideal to accommodate occasional in-person meetings and installs, but 90% WFH. We’d consider a remote candidate with the right skills.

Responsibilities:

Design, implement, and troubleshoot data center and cloud networks, including routing, switching, firewalls, and on-prem to cloud connectivity.

Size, architect, and deploy data protection, disaster recovery, and scale out storage solutions for a variety of workloads and clients.

Perform backup and recovery operations for large scale NAS, virtualized environments, M365, and public cloud resources.

Harden and support Microsoft 365, Entra ID, and Active Directory environments (Conditional Access, PIM, Defender, Intune).

Design and implement AWS, Azure, and GCP infrastructure, including networking, IAM, compute, and storage.

Design, deploy, and troubleshoot virtualized systems in the data center and public cloud.

Build and manage infrastructure using code and automate repeatable tasks and processes.

Automate collection of system health, backup and recovery jobs, and performance metrics, and build useful dashboards.

Provide an escalation path for L1, L2, and L3 support engineers.

Monitor performance, identify issues, troubleshoot, and resolve.

Troubleshoot outages and perform root cause analysis.

Configure access using a least privileged approach, audit, and ensure adherence to policies and procedures.

Communicate upgrade and rollback plans and execute upgrades.

Maintain an internal wiki with technical documentation, manuals and IT policies.

Communicate with clients, understand their needs and build trust.

Project Examples:

Connect a customer’s data center to AWS over Direct Connect with VPN backup and design the VPC and routing layout.

Design protection for multi-PB NAS to efficiently store data on prem and in AWS S3.

Use Cohesity to protect vSphere VMs running databases to AWS S3, perform recovery in AWS, and platform convert to EC2. Automate the entire process using Terraform.

Migrate a customer’s data center to public cloud, including network connectivity, identity, compute, and data protection.

Deploy a vSphere cluster using vSAN in accordance with best practice storage design and layout.

Run a Microsoft 365 security review for a customer and implement Conditional Access, PIM, and Defender.

A systems engineer who’s passionate about learning, capable of providing outstanding customer service, and comfortable moving between networking, data protection, storage, Microsoft identity, public cloud, virtualization, and automation in the same week. You will work directly with a variety of customers to understand their challenges and help them resolve issues, and you’ll work on P1 Protect, our data protection service. We don’t expect you to be deep in all of these. We do expect you to be deep in a couple, competent in the rest, and eager to close the gaps., Automate metrics collection via API and create visualizations and dashboards that accurately detail the status of a platform.

Tier 1 Technical Skills (most required):

IP networks (routing, switching, firewalls, VPN)

Data Protection (Backup/Recovery) Software (Cohesity, Rubrik, Commvault, Veeam, Keepit)

Storage (Qumulo, Isilon, NetApp, vSAN)

M365 / Entra ID / Active Directory

AWS / Azure / GCP

Windows / Linux

VMware vSphere

Terraform / Ansible

Python / PowerShell

AI dev/coding agents

Experience as a System Architect/Administrator

Tier 2 Technical Skills (multiple required):

Arista / Cisco routing and switching

Palo Alto / Fortinet firewalls

Entra ID security (Conditional Access, PIM, Defender, Purview, Intune, LAPS)

Kubernetes, Resourcefulness and problem-solving aptitude

Excellent communication skills

Ability to communicate technical concepts and the impact of technical issues

Comfortable working outside your immediate knowledge area and escalating when needed

Friendly and easy-going

Teamwork oriented

P1 Culture

One of our core tenets is making P1 a great place to work. You’ll have access to and be able to learn from great engineers who are easy to work with.

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule

At P1 you’ll have an opportunity to work with a variety of customers across many industries, from media and entertainment, to aerospace, to medical and health sciences. You’ll be part of an engineering team that is immersed in new technology and is constantly learning from our customers, our partners, and each other.