Principal Systems Engineer
A complex, large-scale enterprise organization is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to provide senior technical leadership across its infrastructure and systems environment. This is a high-impact, senior role requiring extensive technical expertise, the ability to set engineering standards, mentor engineering teams, and lead critical infrastructure implementations and escalations.
Responsibilities:- Lead the design, architecture, and delivery of complex enterprise infrastructure solutions from concept through to production.
- Define and enforce technical standards, governance frameworks, and engineering best practices across the systems function.
- Provide senior technical leadership and mentoring to infrastructure and systems engineering teams.
- Lead critical incident escalations, complex troubleshooting activities, and post-incident root-cause analysis.
- Produce high-quality technical documentation including solution designs, architecture diagrams, HLDs, and LLDs.
- Engage with senior stakeholders, enterprise architects, and technology vendors on strategy and roadmap planning.
- Review and approve technical designs, change requests, and solution proposals submitted by engineering teams.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the systems engineering function.
- Act as the technical authority across compute, storage, networking, and cloud platform domains.
- 10+ years of experience in systems or infrastructure engineering, with at least 3 years in a senior or principal capacity.
- Deep technical expertise across multiple domains including compute, storage, virtualization, networking, or cloud.
- Strong experience with enterprise infrastructure platforms such as VMware, HPE, Dell, Cisco, or equivalent.
- Demonstrated experience in solution design and producing formal technical architecture documentation.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.
- Proven experience mentoring and developing junior and mid-level engineering professionals.
- Advanced certifications such as VMware VCP/VCIX, Cisco CCIE, or equivalent are highly advantageous.
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