Sr. Systems Engineer

Sr. Systems Engineer
Reports to: Sr. Manager, IT ServicesSupervises: NoneLocation: Evergreen Goodwill Administration - Hybrid, 3 days required in officeBand: $85,000 – $90,000
Position Summary
Evergreen Goodwill is seeking a Sr. Systems Engineer to own how technology works across our 26 locations — the infrastructure, the store technology, and the service model that keeps 2,000 people working.
This is the senior technical seat on our systems engineering team. You will own a domain rather than a queue: the coverage model for how we support locations, the standards for how systems get built and maintained, the lifecycle of the technology in our stores, and the architecture decisions inside your scope. When something in that domain breaks at scale, it is yours.
We are in the middle of significant infrastructure modernization — virtualization platform migration, identity rollout, endpoint modernization, and a point-of-sale replacement touching every store. You will be designing and building that, not inheriting it finished.
You will also raise the technical bar on this team. Our systems engineers are strong operators; we need someone who sets the standard they work to, reviews their designs, and develops them toward this level.
Where your authority sits. You decide within the domain you own — how systems are designed, what the coverage model is, what "correctly built" means for store technology. Standards that span the whole technology estate sit with our Enterprise Solutions Architect, and you are a peer in shaping them. Inside your domain, the calls are yours.
Key Responsibilities
Domain ownership

Own the architecture for a domain of the infrastructure estate — some combination of server and virtualization platform, identity and access, network, endpoint fleet, and store technology
Own the service and field coverage model across 26 locations: how work gets routed, what response looks like, and what we staff for
Own the store technology lifecycle — standards, refresh planning, deployment, and retirement
Own reliability for the systems in your domain, including incident command when something significant breaks

Standards and engineering practice

Set the build, configuration, and operational standards the systems team works to. Write them down
Review designs and significant changes before they reach production
Define what "production-ready" means for infrastructure work, and hold work to it
Work within enterprise architecture and change management standards, and help shape them

Infrastructure and modernization

Lead infrastructure projects: virtualization migration, identity rollout, endpoint modernization, store technology deployment
Design and build, hands-on. This is not a review-only role
Automate at the level of the environment, not just your own tasks — configuration management, provisioning, and infrastructure-as-code where it earns its place

Security and resilience

Own security posture within your domain: patching discipline, access model, hardening standards, and vulnerability response
Own backup, restore verification, and disaster recovery testing. Prove the restores work

Vendor and asset management

Manage vendor relationships for platforms and hardware in your domain, including evaluation and selection input
Own asset standards and lifecycle planning, and the budget input that follows from them

Multiplication

Raise the capability of the systems engineering team through review, standards, and teaching
Mentor Level I and II engineers, and be explicit with them about what reaching the next level requires
Document your work so someone else can carry it

Job-Specific Qualifications

8+ years in systems engineering, infrastructure engineering, or systems administration, with demonstrated ownership of a domain rather than a task queue
Deep Windows Server and directory services experience: Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, certificates, and the failure modes of each
Strong virtualization experience — VMware, Proxmox, or Hyper-V — including design, build, and migration, not only operation
Strong networking: VLANs, routing, firewalls, VPN, and multi-site connectivity design
Identity and access architecture experience: SSO, MFA, conditional access, and access lifecycle
Automation and scripting at a level that changes how the environment is managed — PowerShell, Bash, Python, or configuration management tooling
Demonstrated experience setting technical standards that other engineers followed
Experience owning infrastructure across multiple physical sites
Experience owning security posture: patching, hardening, access, and vulnerability response
Clear written communication. You will write standards other people have to follow, and explain a constraint to a non-technical audience

Other / Preferred Qualifications

Retail, logistics, warehousing, or another environment with distributed physical sites and frontline staff
Point-of-sale, payment, or PCI-scoped infrastructure experience
Linux administration, Proxmox VE, KVM, or ZFS/Ceph storage
Infrastructure-as-code — Terraform, Ansible, or similar — in production use
Experience designing a field service or site support model, not only working inside one
Experience leading an infrastructure migration end to end
Mentoring or technical leadership of less experienced engineers
Nonprofit, public sector, or mission-driven experience

What we are deliberately not asking for

People management experience. No direct reports. This is a senior individual contributor seat, and the ladder continues above it
Specific vendor certifications. Platforms in our current environment are examples, not requirements — we are replacing several of them

Growth
This is Level III on the systems engineering ladder. The level above it is Architect, which is a band rather than a single seat — a Sr. Engineer who grows into architectural scope is promoted into it rather than waiting for a seat to open.
Minimum Education
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field — or equivalent professional experience. Demonstrated work carries more weight than credentials.
Minimum Years of Relevant Experience
8+ years.