Sr. Systems Engineer

Job Description

Wynn Resorts is seeking a brilliant Senior Systems Engineer that can provide systems planning-design-building expertise for projects, troubleshooting systems outages, and day-to-day operational support as well as providing guidance and mentorship to junior engineers.

Key Skills and Knowledge:

• Ability to troubleshoot and diagnose small technical issues
• Advanced understanding of computer systems, networks, and/or databases
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office desktop tools including Office, Excel, PowerPoint, Project
• Excellent troubleshooting skills 
• Willingness to provide 24x7 on-call support 
• Demonstrated ability to handle high pressure, high-expectation, multi-project environment
• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, prioritization, decision-making skills
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment with aggressive deadlines
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities 
• Ability to work individually and in a team environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills 

Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• Perform systems engineering design and administrative tasks on all servers to include, but not limited to: 
• Install, configure, monitor and tune operating systems, system software, and applications
• Troubleshoot system problems, create and maintain scripts
• Design, plan, budget, and manage successful technology implementations
• Deploy and maintain infrastructure to support common services: file, print, application, database, web, fax, email
• Design and administer the storage architecture – Disk, SAN, Backup
• Deploy and maintain network-centric services – DNS, DHCP, Anti-Virus
• Deploy and maintain infrastructure to support business critical line-of-business applications
• Prepare documentation for systems and business projects
• Assist in the development and communication of standard operating procedures
• Create enterprise computing services infrastructure standards
• Lead efforts to develop appropriate support models surrounding servers, storage, and cloud technologies
• Participate in development of enterprise security infrastructure including physical, operating system, and application level security domains
• Assist in the design and development of secure physical facilities such as technology centers and telecommunication rooms
• Develop and use methods to quickly build remote offices and relocate technical resources 
• Assist Network Engineering with the build and support of the LAN and WAN environments, including switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, and VPN
• Assist workstation support resources with the development of a comprehensive desktop deployment, management, and support methodology
• Train help desk, technician, and junior systems engineering staff in troubleshooting, support, and escalation practices
• Provide leadership and guidance to the support team
• Work with project managers to develop appropriate vendor contract verbiage, service levels, equipment specifications, and project timelines
• Manage external hosting and systems resources
• Perform vendor product technical reviews; compare competing vendor products; develop recommendations for selected products
• Assist in vendor contract negotiations
• Prepare and deliver presentations on systems engineering recommendations
• Work on multiple projects and objectives simultaneously in a 7x24x365 environment
• Participate in the on-call schedule to provide 24-hour support
• Perform systems engineering functions within a framework of standards striving to increase systems effectiveness, uptime, and risk avoidance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in systems engineering, computer science, or similar disciplines or equivalent work experience/education combination
• Must have one if not all technical certifications, such as: MCSE, UNIX, Solaris, Cisco, or Oracle is highly preferred
• Must have at least a minimum of seven (7) years’ of experience in a large or enterprise IT environment
• Experience in Perl Programming and other languages is preferred (C, C++, Visual Basic, Java, HTML) 
• Strong understanding of directory-based infrastructure and systems engineering
• Understanding of network communication protocols (TCP/IP, etc.)
• Working understanding of popular server environments including MS Windows Server, Solaris, AIX, *nix, AS400
• Proven experience designing and implementing scalable and fault-tolerant service infrastructure within a large client server environment. 
• Working knowledge of Windows, Anti Virus Software, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Visio 
• Experience with workstation manageme