Senior System Engineer
Company: Sentinel
Category: IT
Downers Grove, Remote
Type: Full Time
Sentinel is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer with 5–7 years of industry experience to support and design cloud and virtualization solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in VMware, Hyper-V, UCS, Linux, and Windows environments. Responsibilities include onboarding new customers, supporting data center migrations, and maintaining critical cloud infrastructure. This role requires excellent troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills as you will be working with various cross functional teams. Candidates should have experience in technical support and be comfortable in a fast-paced, SLA-driven environment.
Compensation range is $120,000-$140,000 annually. Benefits package include: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, 529, Life Insurance, Income Protection Short and Long-Term Disability, Medical and Child/Elder Care, Flexible Spending Account Plans, Family Planning Benefits, Financial Education, Identity Theft Protection and Assistance, Legal Services, Employee Assistance Program, Two weeks’ vacation, additional paid time-off for Personal and Sick, certification and hands-on training, and employee discount for product services and entertainment.
Qualifications:
- Deep understanding and hands-on experience in server hardware, virtualization, cloud integrations, and security to ensure high availability, scalability, and optimal performance.
- Design, implement, and manage mission-critical data center infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of server virtualization, storage systems, and hands-on experience with Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) solutions.
- Provide senior-level technical support and system engineering for all Windows-based and Linux-based platforms including Active Directory, DNS, RDS.
- Planning, executing, and overseeing the successful migration of data center infrastructure, applications, and services.
- Considered a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in one or more datacenter technologies.
- Experience with Hyper-V/SystemCenter and scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell) is a plus.
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Participation in after-hours work (when needed) and OnCall rotation is required.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Nice to have public cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) experience.



