System Engineer II

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The System Engineer II is responsible for designing, implementing, optimizing, and supporting enterprise infrastructure systems that enable reliable, secure, and scalable technology services across LCMC Health. This role operates beyond routine system administration by contributing to infrastructure architecture, platform engineering, automation, and lifecycle management while ensuring high availability for clinical and business systems. This role is considered senior for system engineering and design.

General Duties

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise infrastructure platforms including virtualization, storage, backup, and server environments
• Engineer system solutions that improve availability, scalability, performance, and security beyond standard operational support
• Provide advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex infrastructure issues
• Lead or contribute to infrastructure projects including upgrades, migrations, and technology refresh initiatives
• Develop and maintain system documentation, standards, and engineering runbooks
• Partner with architecture, security, network, and application teams to deliver integrated infrastructure solutions
• Develop and design automation efforts to reduce manual operational tasks and improve system reliability
• Ensure infrastructure platforms comply with healthcare regulatory, security, and availability requirements through design

Experience Qualifications

• Minimum of seven (7) years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering or advanced systems administration roles
• Demonstrated experience designing and supporting enterprise virtualization platforms (VMware, Citrix, or equivalent)
• Hands-on experience with storage and backup technologies supporting mission-critical workloads
• Strong experience designing and engineering Windows Server and/or Linux/Unix operating systems
• Experience architecting and designing infrastructure in on-premise, colocation, and hybrid cloud environments
• Proven ability to engineer systems/platforms for high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery
• Healthcare IT experience preferred, particularly in hospital or health system environments operating 24x7
• Experience supporting environments with HIPAA and regulatory compliance requirements

Education Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• Equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered

Licenses and Certifications

• Relevant technical certifications strongly preferred (e.g., VMware, Microsoft, Linux, storage platforms, cloud technologies)

Skills and Abilities

• Strong systems mindset with ability to design and optimize infrastructure solutions
• Advanced analytical problem-solving skills
• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure architecture and dependencies
• Effective communication skills to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Ability to work independently and lead technical initiatives with minimal supervision
• Strong documentation and technical writing skills

WORK SHIFT:

LCMC Health is a community.

Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little come on in attitude is the foundation of LCMC Healths culture of everyday extraordinary

Your extras

• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems its all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do

You are welcome here.

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.

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