Senior Systems Engineer - Greater Boston, MA - Up to $170k

• Work for a global leader in the manufacturing industry
• Join a growing IT team with great benefits

About Our Client

This organization is an industry leading manufacturing organization with locations across the US and around the world.

Job Description

The Senior Systems Engineer will be responsible for the full ownership of the Windows Server, on-premise, virtual, and in the Microsoft cloud. You will design new systems, maintain the standards they're built to, and set the bar for how the work gets done across this organizations multiple US sites and international locations. As a senior technical member on the Infrastructure team, you will lead by example and be the engineer others turn to when they're stuck. The role mixes architecture and administration and you'll spend time designing new systems and time running the day-to-day work that keeps them healthy. Throughout, you put the customer first: success isn't measured by the systems you deliver, but by whether they help the business achieve its goals.

MPI does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.

The Successful Applicant

The successful candidate will have:

• 8+ years of systems engineering experience across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Experience designing systems - taking requirements through architecture, build, and into production ownership.
• Experience as the senior technical engineer on an infrastructure team-the person who sets standards, mentors others, and gets escalated to.
• Strong working knowledge of Windows Server, Active Directory, VMware, Azure/Microsoft 365, and Exchange
• Hands-on with Entra ID Conditional Access and MFA at scale. You've designed policies, not just toggled settings.
• Backup and recovery experience across on-premises and cloud workloads-designed schedules, tested restores, recovered under pressure.
• Strong automation and integration skills (PowerShell, Python, or equivalent), plus practical experience tying systems together via APIs and event-driven patterns.
• Working fluency with AI tools and a point of view on where they fit-you use them daily, know where they fail, and spot opportunities beyond personal productivity.
• Customer-first mindset. You listen before proposing, measure success by business outcomes, and treat working with IT as an experience you're responsible for-not just a queue of tickets.
• Growth mindset. You treat world-class IT as a practice built on feedback and improvement, not a finish line.
• Willing to participate in an on-call rotation for issues affecting production or business operations, and to travel occasionally to other sites

Preferred experience includes:

• Hands-on with their operational stack-NinjaOne, CrowdStrike, Proofpoint, Barracuda Backup, and Azure Recovery Services Vault-or close equivalents.
• Experience in manufacturing or distributed site environments.

What's on Offer

Excellent benefits, including:

• Hybrid work schedule
• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Annual bonus on offer
• Generous PTO
• Short and Long Term Disability

Contact

Joshua Kerslake

Quote job ref

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