Davenport & Company LLC · 1 day ago
Senior Systems Engineer
United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
7+ years expDavenport Group is focused on delivering innovative cloud and hybrid datacenter solutions. The Senior Systems Engineer will design, engineer, and implement Azure and M365 solutions while providing technical support and training to customers.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Deploying M365 workloads (Intune, Defender, Teams, OneDrive, AVD); S2S VPN; installations & troubleshooting
Provide technical support to assist in the sale, installation, and support of company products
Conduct and/or participate in demonstrations, customer evaluations, and ROI analyses. Deliver technical presentations and respond to technical questions during sales calls. Provide technical content for bids and sales proposals
Provide direct sales support in operating systems, performance conversion, and complex configuration planning
Develop, design, and recommend solutions including Microsoft Active Directory and Azure Active Directory (Entra ID) hybrid, Microsoft Exchange/Exchange Online with a strong understanding of migration methodologies between these platforms and hybrid coexistence, Microsoft SQL Server, Office 365 (and all Office 365 components), and related hardware and software products
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Azure Cloud platform with the ability to design and deploy infrastructure services inside of Azure, along with hybrid models utilizing Site-to-Site VPN tunnels to OnPrem locations
Design, deploy, and troubleshoot Microsoft Cloud offerings including Intune, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, and Azure Virtual Desktop (VDI)
Maintain an in-depth knowledge of operating systems, hardware systems, peripheral products, conversion techniques, and performance methods of all company offerings
Install products and connect servers at customer sites as required
Train customers in the use of hardware and software
Establish and cultivate ongoing business relationships with customers to facilitate additional business
Document prospect and customer contact activity and customer configuration information in Salesforce.com
Document personal activity with status and time reporting
Mentor engineering team members
Advise and train account executives on company-supported technology
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree (Computer Science or Information Technology) from a four-year college or university; or three to five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
Seven or more years of professional experience, including four or more years of experience selling, maintaining, or installing client/server hardware and software systems and five or more years of experience with Microsoft products and environments
Working knowledge of Infrastructure architectures, including physical servers, storage devices (including SAN/NAS/DAS), storage networking protocols (iSCSI, FC, DirectAttached), backup/disaster recovery ideologies and implementation, and networking stack for communications
Experience working with Microsoft Active Directory and Azure Active Directory (Entra ID) hybrid; exceptional knowledge of Microsoft Exchange/Exchange Online with a strong understanding of migration methodologies between these platforms and hybrid coexistence
Exceptional knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server administration and migration, particularly MS SQL, SSIS, and SSRS migration
Required knowledge of Microsoft Fileservers, DFS replication, sharing, and migration methodologies for fileservers. Strong administrative understanding of Group Policy and Policy modification. Strong administrative understanding of Print Servers and Print Server migration
Exceptional knowledge of Office 365 (and all Office 365 components) – stand-alone and hybrid configuration, with an understanding of migration practices both from Exchange and non-Exchange (IMAP) systems
Required knowledge of Microsoft Teams, Intune, Defender products, and OneDrive. Strong understanding of Azure services, configuration, implementation, and migration
Strong understanding of Microsoft SCCM. Strong understanding of workstations and provisioning in the Active Directory Forest/Domain model
MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) Certification
Requires physical ability to lift up to 50 pounds for product installations
Preferred
Robust working level knowledge of virtualization environments (VMware, Hyper V, and/or XenServer)
Familiarity with most if not all Microsoft server platforms and technologies
Experience in consulting or a history of handling multiple different customer scenarios
MCSA / MCSE / MCAA / or 1 basic Microsoft Fundamentals (current/up-to-date) and 1 Microsoft Intermediate (current/up-to-date) certifications are preferred, but not required
Company
Davenport & Company LLC
Established in 1863, Davenport & Company LLC is one of the oldest employee-owned, independent financial services firms in America.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Lee Chapman
President & CEO
Will Hershey
Chief Financial Officer, Managing Director
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