Senior Systems Engineer - Windows/SQL Services

USD 130,000-225,000 per year

SENIOR

✅ On-site

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Details

The Corporate Technology Group designs, deploys, and supports Bloomberg’s platforms and systems used by more than 21,000 employees across 170+ offices worldwide. The team supports critical infrastructure services that enable internal applications, data platforms, engineering workflows, and enterprise operations across Bloomberg.

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will help engineer, operate, and improve Bloomberg’s globally distributed Windows hosting and SQL Server database services. The role requires hands-on Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server administration experience, along with sufficient infrastructure knowledge to troubleshoot virtualization, storage, networking, identity, and application dependencies.

Responsibilities

Engineer, support, and troubleshoot governed Windows Server environments, including configuration, patching, clustering, Active Directory integration, platform services, and lifecycle management.
Administer and support Microsoft SQL Server services, including installation, configuration, patching, backup and restore, security, performance troubleshooting, availability, failover clustering, and operational support.
Diagnose complex service issues across Windows Server, SQL Server, Active Directory, DNS, service accounts, networking, storage, virtualization, and application dependencies.
Improve monitoring, alerting, telemetry, service health reporting, documentation, and operational handoffs to reduce risk and improve supportability.
Identify and deliver improvements that simplify processes, reduce manual effort, increase automation, and improve consistency of service delivery across the global operating model.
Contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, preventative engineering, and operational readiness for business-critical platform and database services.
Partner across engineering, operations, application, database, security, and infrastructure teams to plan and execute platform and database service changes safely and effectively.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or equivalent platform, systems, and database services experience.
At least 4 years of hands-on experience supporting enterprise Windows Server environments, Microsoft SQL Server, hosted application platforms, or related infrastructure services.
Strong Windows Server administration experience, including troubleshooting, patching, Active Directory integration, DNS, Group Policy, service accounts, SPNs, DFS, clustering, and related platform services.
Strong hands-on Microsoft SQL Server administration experience in an enterprise environment, including installation, configuration, patching, backup and restore, security, troubleshooting, performance, and high-availability technologies.
Working knowledge of infrastructure dependencies supporting Windows and database services, including virtualization, storage, networking, backup and recovery, and operational monitoring.
Working knowledge of PowerShell, SQL/T-SQL, Python, or similar scripting and automation technologies.
Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and operational discipline, with the ability to take ownership of complex issues and collaborate across engineering disciplines.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with SCCM or similar tools for Windows operating system deployment, software deployment, patching, and configuration management.
Working knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code practices, or tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or similar.
Experience creating runbooks, playbooks, operational readiness reviews, support handoff documentation, and ITSM knowledge articles.
Experience working in a global technology environment supporting business-critical Windows, platform, or database services.
Exposure to private cloud, hybrid cloud, platform hosting technologies, or service migration initiatives.
Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana, Splunk, Falcon, Humio, or similar tools.

Benefits

The salary range is $130,000–$225,000 USD annually, plus benefits and bonus. Benefits may include merit increases, incentive compensation for exempt roles, paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability benefits, 401(k) matching, life insurance, and wellness programs. Benefits are not provided directly to contingent workers, contractors, or interns.