Senior System Engineer

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What powers us? Our employees. From the first person hired by James Allison in 1915 to the thousands across the globe who work for Allison today, we're driving progress everywhere because we employ top talent worldwide. In both the Allison Transmission and Allison Off-Highway Drive and Motion Systems business units, our team strives to Improve the Way the World Works.

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Benefits

The below list features some of the benefits currently available. Eligibility may be subject to the terms and conditions of governing documents and available benefits may be subject to change at the company’s discretion.

• Choice of medical plans with prescription coverage
• Employer HSA contribution
• Dental & Vision Insurance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Short & Long-Term Disability
• Other voluntary benefits including: Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Identity Theft Protection and Pet Insurance
• 401K with generous Company match & contribution
• Accrued Paid Time Off
• 12 Paid Holidays + 1 Floating Holiday
• Robust employee wellness program
• Tuition assistance program

Primary Purpose of Role:

Leads the engineering, optimization, and resiliency of core datacenter and cloud platforms supporting global operations. This role provides advanced technical expertise, drives standards and automation, and serves as a senior escalation point for complex infrastructure, performance, and recovery challenges.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, and support robust infrastructure solutions across server, virtualization, storage, backup, file services, and cloud platforms.

Lead complex troubleshooting and serve as a senior escalation point for major incidents, performance issues, and recurring platform instability.

Drive automation, configuration management, and Infrastructure as Code practices to improve consistency, speed, and reliability.

Lead lifecycle planning, capacity management, and technical refresh activities for infrastructure platforms.

Develop and enforce engineering standards for compliance, patching, resiliency, observability, and operational readiness.

Support containerization and orchestration platforms where applicable, including standards, operations, and integration.

Partner with database, application, security, and network teams to optimize platform performance and ensure recoverability.

Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical documentation, runbooks, and operational maturity.

Key Performance Measures

Platform availability, stability, and reduction in severity 1 and 2 incidents.

Delivery of lifecycle, capacity, and resiliency initiatives on time and within scope.

Improvement in automation coverage and reduction in manual operational effort.

Disaster recovery test success and recovery time achievement for supported platforms.

Compliance posture for patching, standards, and audit remediation items.

Competencies And Behaviors

Technical Expertise – Advanced: Applies deep knowledge across infrastructure platforms and solves difficult technical problems.

Ownership – Advanced: Takes responsibility for platform health, technical debt, and long-term reliability.

Influence – Advanced: Gains alignment across teams on standards, design decisions, and operational improvements.

Coaching – Intermediate/Advanced: Develops less experienced engineers through mentoring and knowledge sharing.

Continuous Improvement – Advanced: Turns operational pain points into scalable solutions, standards, and automation.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred.

Advanced technical certification(s) preferred in cloud, virtualization, automation, storage, or operating systems.

ITIL or similar operational governance knowledge preferred.

Experience

Strong written and verbal communication skills required.

5–8 years of progressive infrastructure engineering experience.

Deep experience in hybrid infrastructure, including datacenter and cloud operations.

Strong experience with automation, scripting, and/or IaC tools such as PowerShell, Python, Terraform, Ansible, or similar.

Experience leading technical implementation efforts or platform upgrades.

Experience with disaster recovery, backup strategy, and capacity/performance management.

Exposure to enterprise compliance, audit support, and infrastructure standards governance.

Scope Factors

Supports highly critical enterprise services with broad business and operational impact.

Regularly handles complex technical decisions with limited oversight.

No direct people management required, but often leads technical work across teams.

Serves as a mentor and senior escalation resource within the engineering team.

Supports global environments and participates in major initiatives affecting multiple regions or business units.

Influences medium-scale project spend, refresh planning, and technical roadmaps.

Allison Transmission is an equal opportunity employer. We have opportunities for all qualified applicants regardless of age, race, color, sex, religion, creed, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.

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