SitusAMC is where passionate individuals come together to transform businesses in the Real Estate Industry. The Lead Systems Engineer will play a key role in designing, implementing, and optimizing IT infrastructure while providing technical leadership and fostering collaboration across teams to align technology solutions with business objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with the SVP, Systems Architecture to develop and execute long-term infrastructure strategies aligned with organizational goals
- Provide technical leadership across Systems Engineering, Azure Identity, Networking, and IT Operations by guiding best practices, mentoring team members, and supporting cross-training initiatives
- Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement by promoting modern infrastructure patterns, automation, and operational efficiency
- Build strong working relationships with business and technology stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into practical, scalable solutions
- Contribute to the development, documentation, and maintenance of IT architecture standards, policies, and procedures
- Ensure infrastructure designs and operational processes align with industry best practices, compliance requirements, and the organization’s security framework
- Identify opportunities to streamline operations through automation, orchestration, and improved system design
- Support the engineering and operational teams in executing disaster recovery and business continuity strategies, including planning, testing, and optimization
- Assist with evaluating and selecting infrastructure technologies, tools, and platforms that enhance performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
- Lead or contribute to technical assessments, root cause analyses, and post-incident reviews to strengthen system resilience
- Provide architectural input and guidance during project planning, design reviews, and major infrastructure initiatives
- Serve as a point of escalation for complex technical issues, partnering with teams to drive resolution and long-term remediation
- Promote alignment and collaboration across teams to ensure cohesive delivery of infrastructure services and solutions
- Other activities as may be assigned by your manager
Requirements:
- Associate degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and hands-on experience
- Minimum of 8+ years of industry and/or relevant experience, typically with 2+ years in an AVP level role or external equivalent
- Progressive experience in IT infrastructure, systems engineering, or cloud engineering roles supporting enterprise environments
- Extensive experience with Azure and AWS, including identity and access management, networking architecture, compute, storage, monitoring, automation, and cost optimization
- Hands on experience with Terraform for IAC
- Proven technical leadership abilities, including mentoring team members, promoting best practices, and influencing architectural decisions without formal supervisory authority
- Deep understanding of core infrastructure technologies, including networking, virtualization, storage systems, server platforms, and hybrid cloud integrations
- Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into scalable, secure technical solutions and contribute to long-term infrastructure strategy
- Strong background in automation and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Azure ARM/Bicep, CloudFormation)
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex, multi-layered infrastructure issues
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and business audiences
- Experience supporting disaster recovery, high-availability architectures, and enterprise security frameworks is strongly preferred
- Flexibility to work shifts outside of normal working hours
- Travel may be required, no more than 25%
- Requires the ability to be on call and support a 24/7/365 operations
- Relevant certifications (e.g., Azure Architect Expert, AWS Solutions Architect, CCNP, etc.) are a plus