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IT@JH Enterprise Management, Monitoring and Security (EMMS) is seeking a Sr. Systems Engineer who will play a critical role in designing, implementing and maintaining technologies that provide persistent virtual desktops for IT staff, non-IT staff and researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Medicine. The position will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure optimal performance, security and scalability of the virtual desktop solution.

Provides technical leadership, project management, and task execution for administration, programming, maintenance, performance, implementation, security and support of various departmental and enterprise-wide multiple platforms, including the installation and testing of new software, operating systems, related utilities/services, and hardware products as well as the integration of new products and /or software release upgrades into the current environment. Conducts systems performance evaluations, monitoring, patch management and security evaluations. Analyzes user needs in various computer environments (including but not limited to mainframe, Windows, and mid-range) and makes recommendations for products and services that meet those needs. Ensures that all systems environments are maintained in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

Job Scope/Complexity

Provide technical leadership based on extensive technical knowledge, skills and experience; influence clients towards innovative/integrated solutions. Responsible for full life cycle of large sized complex projects which can span an entire department, division, or enterprise-wide level. For enterprise-wide level, typical projects impact the broader customer base of Johns Hopkins and its most mission critical systems. Projects often require interaction with various departments and teams both within and outside the department. Complex and large projects typically are applications/systems with 501-3000 concurrent users requiring uptime commensurate with Clinical, Business critical, Education critical or Enterprise systems. Impacts of outages will cause major disruption such as implementation of downtime procedures, major disruption of business operations, and/or cascades to more than 7 systems/applications. Disruptions are without obvious or simple workarounds. Strong technical skills; strong ability to understand complex business processes. Build and maintain client relationships through positive interactions. Assist employees in lower-level positions.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• The responsibilities listed below are typical examples of the work performed by this position.

• Not all duties assigned to this position are included, nor is it expected that everyone in this position will be assigned every job responsibility.

Systems Analysis/Design (Environment/Platform)

• Design highly complex business, clinical, education, or infrastructure solutions by meeting with customers to observe and understand current processes and the issues related to those processes. Provide written documentation and diagrams of findings to share with the client and other IT colleagues. Assist lower levels to effectively use the system's technical software.

• Design highly complex solutions that conform to institutional policies, standards, and guidelines, and infrastructure environment and to vendor and industry best practices to deliver a quality product.

• Select infrastructure applications that reside between end user applications and hardware operating systems by working with vendors, customers, and other sources (i.e., open source or Internet2 initiatives) to provide configurable tools to the customers.

• Develop new methods to improve service processes, performance, and functionality by examining system management tools and processes. Review new methods suggested by lower levels and approve the work.

• Research, recommend, and implement new technologies based on the value to the institution.

• Works with vendor processes and products to improve the quality and fit for the institution. Typically establishes product mastery and demonstrates initiative for improvements.

• Assign and lead technical systems analysis and design tasks for assigned environments and platforms.

Install & Configure

• Install and configure highly complex server hardware and operating systems by following technical documentation to provide a working product.

• Evaluate, implement, and manage appropriate highly complex software and hardware solutions by using best practices for the environment to ensure system integrity.

• Install and configure infrastructure applications by following product installation and configuration directions and industry best practices to deliver a solution to the customers.

• Ensure an effective schedule is developed of system backups and archive operations by providing leadership, oversight, and direction to technical team in best practices for the environment to ensure data/media recoverability.

• Lead and provide direction to technical team for all above tasks by reviewing work and adherence to institutional standards and guidelines to deliver projects on time and within budget to the customers

Maintain & Troubleshoot

• Provide highly complex server level administration (manage HW/SW, maintenance, upgrades and patches, account maintenance, backups and recoveries and assist users) by following documented procedures to ensure a stable environment.

• Monitor and tune the system by following documentation and procedures to achieve optimum performance levels.

• Develop highly complex scripts and solutions by using departmental standards to automate systems management.

• Perform highly complex system software upgrades including planning and scheduling, testing, and coordination by following documentation and departmental standards to provide a stable product for the environment.

• Audit and maintain user access and authorization by following access and authorization documentation to provide for system security.

• Generate and maintain highly complex periodic and ongoing system specific reports by using appropriate tools to assess system performance, integrity and capacity in order to deliver a stable environment to the users.

• Follow and maintain IT security awareness and best practices by understanding security principles as they pertain to environments supported in order to deliver secure solutions to customers.

• Utilize system management and monitoring tools and incident tracking systems by following documentation and standards to detect incidents, take corrective actions, and determine root cause.

• Monitor changes and resolve any incidents by responding to problems as they occur, by reviewing all processing and output of the newly implemented solution, and by proactively ensuring the solution works successfully to satisfy the customer requirements and to provide a smooth transition to the new solution.

• Lead and provide direction to technical team for all the above tasks by reviewing work and adherence to institutional standards and guidelines to deliver high quality maintenance and troubleshooting to the customers.

Project Collaboration & Lifecycle Participation

• Implement changes by adhering to the change management policies and procedures for any given project to communicate to all parties the nature, significance, and risk factors of the solution.

• Lead effort to develop RFPs by engaging project team members in the process in order to develop well defined requirements to potential vendors for proposed solutions.

• Evaluate vendor proposals by reviewing requirements for the product to select the most appropriate vendor.

• Lead vendors, consultants, and inside Enterprise groups in developing applications by meeting with the team on a regular basis to deliver quality products to customers.

• Lead scheduled project team meetings by attending all meetings to provide input to the project team.

• Author and maintain documentation by writing audience-appropriate materials to serve as technical and/or end user reference.

• Lead technical team in test planning, test scenario construction, and test sessions appropriate to the changes being implemented by following testing guidelines to ensure all delivered solutions work as expected and errors are handled in a meaningful way.

• Review test results and corrections to all changes by following institutional and departmental testing standards to ensure all delivered solutions work as expected and errors are handled in a meaningful way.

• Participate in Institutional and Departmental committees and initiatives.

• Lead and provide direction to technical team for all of the above tasks by reviewing work and adherence to institutional standards and guidelines to ensure collaboration and communication with team members and customers.

• Perform other related duties as requested.

• Design, deploy, and manage virtual desktop service offerings based on current and emerging use cases.

• Automate virtual desktop deployment, administration, and retirement tasks utilizing PowerShell, APIs, and orchestration technologies.

• Monitor and troubleshoot virtual desktop performance, connectivity, and user experience issues.

• Collaborate with IT teams and the rest of Enterprise Management, Monitoring, and Security team to implement security best practices including systems management, access controls, conditional access policies, and network security.

• Create and modify reports for operational, security, and financial stakeholders

Specific Devices, Software, Projects

• Azure Resource Manager.

• PowerShell scripting.

• Microsoft Active Directory (AD).

• Azure Active Directory/Microsoft Entra ID.

• System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM, MCM).

• System Center Orchestrator (SCORCH).

• System Center Service Manager (SCSM).

• Azure DevOps or similar platforms.

• Microsoft SQL.

• Microsoft SQL Reporting Services.

Scale/size of Area, Project and/or System Supported

• The scale is “big-E” Enterprise. All Hopkins affiliates, including international locales.

• Users: 100,000+ Systems: 100,000+ Complexity is at the highest.

On-call Requirements

• Part of a weekly on-call rotation for the services provided by the EMMS team.

Special Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Must demonstrate strong critical thinking and analytical reasoning skills.

• Ability to work on multiple priorities effectively.

• Ability to prioritize conflicting demands.

• Ability to execute assigned project tasks within established schedule.

• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

• Ability to communicate effectively in the service of users and colleagues.

• Writes and communicates clearly and concisely.

• Possesses sound documentation skills.

• Ability to maintain confidentiality.

• Must demonstrate exemplary customer service skills.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree.

• Six years related experience (Direct programming experience while pursuing education may count towards related experience. Significant undergraduate programming coursework or independent project can be considered as related experience.)

• Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with creating and managing virtual systems in Azure using templates, automation, and SCCM/MECM/MCM.

• Familiarity with Azure Security Center, Log Analytics, and KQL.

• Knowledge and proficiency in Splunk.

• Knowledge of virtual networking in Azure, segmentation, and security.

• Proficiency for creating, managing, and retiring persistent virtual desktops on any platform.

• Familiarity with Azure services including Azure Resource Manager, Azure Active Directory, and related APIs.

• Strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Python, or similar).

• Experience performing Operating System Deployment with MDT/SCCM/MCM.

• Experience creating and modifying Microsoft SQL queries and reports.

• Familiarity with JSON formatting.

Classified Title: Sr. Systems Engineer

Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PF

Starting Salary Range: $73,300 - $128,300 Annually (Commensurate w/exp.)

Employee group: Full Time

Schedule: Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:00pm

FLSA Status: Exempt

Location: Remote

Department name: IT@JH EMMS

Personnel area: University Administration

The listed salary range represents the minimum and maximum Johns Hopkins University offers for this position, based on a good faith estimate at the time of posting. Actual compensation will vary depending on factors such as location, skills, experience, market conditions, education, and internal equity. Not all candidates will qualify for the highest salary in the range.

Johns Hopkins provides a comprehensive benefits package supporting health, career, and retirement. Learn more: https://hr.jhu.edu/benefits-worklife/.

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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