OT Senior Systems Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Develop, install, and test network hardware, software releases, system upgrades, and patches; resolve software-related problems.
• Set systems architecture priorities and technology design standards; work with application development teams on infrastructure projects.
• Manage Hyper-V, VMware, and Azure environments and optimize performance, availability, resilience, and resource allocation.
• Implement and test backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions and plans.
• Apply security practices, remediate vulnerabilities, support incident response, and meet internal and regulatory requirements.
• Support enterprise networking and coordinate incident resolution with network teams, vendors, and carriers.
• Manage identity platforms, access governance, privileged access workflows, and access reviews.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation and drive consistent change planning, approval, implementation, and communication.
• Coach colleagues, build consensus, and model CBRE RISE values.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferred with 5+ years of relevant experience; equivalent education and experience combinations may be considered.
• Experience in IT infrastructure, systems engineering, virtualization, cloud, or related enterprise technology environments.
• Hands-on Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, and Microsoft Azure experience in on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments.
• Understanding of enterprise networking, identity and access platforms, privileged access management, and enterprise cybersecurity practices.
• Ability to design, implement, test, and improve backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
• Strong documentation, operational standards, change management, and process consistency.
• Able to collaborate across global time zones, travel internationally occasionally, and participate in an on-call rotation.
• Azure Administrator AZ-104, VMware VCP, or CCNA certifications are preferred; ITIL, change frameworks, SIEM, EDR, and zero-trust exposure are nice to have.

Technical platforms

• Virtualization and cloud: Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, and Microsoft Azure.
• Networking: firewalls, load balancers, switches, routers, VLANs, and connectivity services.
• Identity and privileged access: Active Directory, Entra ID, IAM, SSO, MFA, RBAC, credential vaulting, and session controls.
• Security and continuity: patching, vulnerability management, backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and compliance support.

Schedule and travel

• Participate in an on-call rotation supporting critical systems outside standard business hours.
• Occasional international travel may be required for project implementation, site support, or training.
• The role requires collaboration across global time zones.

Compensation

• The posting lists a minimum salary of $110,000 annually or $52.89 per hour for the OT Senior Systems Engineer position.
• The posting also lists a maximum of $120,000 annually or $57.70 per hour for a Service Delivery Manager position.

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