System Engineering Manager | $140k+

Feldspar & Flint LLC is a Recruiting & Staffing firm that specializes in operational strategy across core business functions.

Lead a team responsible for critical enterprise infrastructure while driving system reliability, modernization, and operational excellence. This role blends hands-on technical leadership with team development, cross-functional collaboration, and ownership of high-availability environments supporting essential business operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and prioritize the work of Systems Engineers while supporting their ongoing training and development.
• Oversee the administration, performance, and reliability of enterprise servers and operating systems across multiple platforms.
• Drive proactive system monitoring, capacity planning, maintenance, and infrastructure upgrade initiatives.
• Ensure change management processes are followed and infrastructure changes are implemented with minimal business disruption.
• Coordinate technical response during high-priority incidents, providing timely communication and escalation when needed.
• Promote accurate documentation, project tracking, reporting, and operational best practices across the engineering team.
• Partner with infrastructure, networking, and application teams to implement enhancements that strengthen system performance and availability.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, providing leadership during critical issues and guiding root-cause analysis and resolution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent professional IT experience.
• Proven experience managing complex multi-server environments with technologies such as VMware, Nutanix, Active Directory, and Windows, Linux, UNIX, AIX, or AS/400 platforms.
• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure, networking, storage technologies, and system administration in high-availability environments.
• Prior experience leading technical teams, mentoring engineers, or coordinating infrastructure projects is highly valued.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and modern virtualization technologies is beneficial.
• Excellent communication, organization, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to perform effectively in fast-paced environments.