Systems Engineer

What is special about Lighthouse?

Lighthouse is built on a foundation of unique, compassionate, highly driven individuals.   We elevate the strengths and talents of those around us while leveraging opportunities for growth. We offer the experience of solving complex problems while continuing to grow multiple facets of your career. Lighthouse is where innovation meets support and where collaboration is the key ingredient to success.  We grow together and are stronger together. 

What’s unique about this role?

This role is responsible for administrating, maintaining, monitoring, expanding, and troubleshooting 24x7 storage infrastructure in multiple datacenter locations. The systems engineer will work with other team members to ensure 100% availability for our hosting and SAAS infrastructure and support our Relativity, Nuix and eCapture systems in the US and EMEA.  

What will this person do?

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and robust cloud solutions using Azure and Microsoft 365.
• Manage and optimize Azure resources, including VMs, Azure Active Directory, and Azure SQL databases.
• Configure and maintain Microsoft 365 services, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and Teams.
• Ensure cloud security by implementing proper access controls, network security groups, and firewalls.
• Automate cloud deployments and configuration management using Azure DevOps, PowerShell, and ARM templates.
• Monitor cloud performance, set up alerts, and respond to incidents to maintain high availability and business continuity.
• Collaborate with development teams to support CI/CD pipelines and promote DevOps best practices.
• Oversee the administration of guest accounts and manage external collaborations within the Microsoft 365 environment, ensuring secure access and compliance with company policies.
• Provide remediation guidance for Azure Identity and Access Management (IAM) to maintain compliance and address security vulnerabilities promptly.
• Design and manage a portfolio of multiple Azure subscriptions, establishing best practices for governance, ensuring security isolation, billing separation, and effective resource organization.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior cloud engineers.
• Stay current with the latest cloud technologies and trends and recommend improvements to our cloud strategy
• Experience with AD Connect, Azure federation, and hybrid synchronization
• Experience deploying and managing Intune mobile device management and Autopilot for Windows provisioning
• Experience in designing and deploying infrastructure and disaster recovery solutions on Azure
• Experience with Microsoft AD, DNS, DHCP, DFS, and GPO Management
• Experience with Azure infrastructure services build and operations such as, Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Storage Accounts (Blob)
• SSO application integration via SAML, OAuth, OIDC
• Experience with management of device identities, conditional access policies
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles and compliance standards
• Experience with automation and scripting using PowerShell, Azure CLI, PowerAutomate, Python, or similar technologies
• Proficiency with Azure DevOps Pipeline capabilities, leveraging CI/CD for efficient deployment of data systems and applications
• Advanced source control skills with Git, including the use of GitHub features such as actions, and managing merged/pull requests. Experience in maintaining repositories for storing scripts, notebooks, and other code artifacts
• Demonstrated ability using Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) on the Azure platform to provision and manage cloud resources such as managed services, servers, databases, etc., with a focus on automation and scalability
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes is a plus
• Experience deploying and managing MS Copilot a plus
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently or as part of a team.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to interact with diverse stakeholders.
• Automation, configuration, or orchestration products like SCCM, Intune, and Ansible
• 3+ years experience with automation, configuration, or orchestration products like SCCM, Intune, and Ansible
• experience as a Windows server, Linux, VMWare, or Storage Administrator

Bring your passion and together we will shine.   It would also be great if you have the following:

• Strong analytical skill with a demonstrated ability to understand and document business data requirements in complete, accurate, extensible, flexible logical data models
• Ability to plan, scope and estimate work effort to produce high quality deliverables on time/on budget
• Proven ability to troubleshoot storage environments using vendor utilities and 3rd party tools
• Participate in on-call rotation supporting systems after-hours, weekends and holidays
• Strong understanding of data center design and principles - hosting experience a plus
• Typically requires a High School degree or equivalent experience. 
• Typically requires 3 to 5 yrs. of experience in building scalable, fault-tolerant storage infrastructures to support cloud computing & remote hosting. 

Work Environment and Physical Demands

Duties are performed in a typical office environment while at a desk or computer table.  Duties require the ability to use a computer, communicate over the telephone, and read printed material, in a quiet and professional setting.

Duties may require occasionally working outside normal business hours (evenings and weekends).

Lighthouse celebrates and thrives on diversity and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We hire, train, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.  We welcome any talents and contributions you can bring to the team and are deeply committed to growing an environment where everyone can feel safe, is respected, and can show up as themselves. Come as you are! 

As required by applicable pay transparency laws, Lighthouse complies with compensation disclosure requirements for roles that may be hired in locations under these requirements. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include a wide array of factors, including: your specific skills and experience, geographic location, or other relevant factors. The salary range for this position may be tailored to be lower or higher in different talent markets.

The expected pay for this role will range from $86,625 to $115,500 per year.  This role will be eligible to participate in an annual bonus or incentive program.  

Lighthouse offers a quality comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and a 401k with company match.  Company paid benefits also include Life & AD&D, short and long-term disability, telemedicine through 98point6, and other wellness plans.  We offer a generous Flexible PTO program and paid volunteer days.  Employees may also participate in voluntary insurance plans including accident, hospitalization, and critical illness plans as well as pet insurance.  

As a trailblazer and catalyst for change, Lighthouse rises to each opportunity to help our clients and our people do what they do best—shine.