Overview M.C. Dean relies on its IT infrastructure and applications to support critical business functions and drive value to the customers. The successful candidate will join a dynamic multidiscipline team responsible for design, implementation, integration, and support of the enterprise IT infrastructure, which includes secure cloud-hosted and on-premises environments. Responsibilities As part of the team, the **Senior Solution Engineer's** responsibilities will include (but will not be limited to) the following: + Analysis of **business needs, operational requirements, and constraints** of diverse internal and external stakeholders; + Development of detailed **technical, performance, and security requirements** for advanced IT solutions; · **Researching and evaluating available technology options** and their respective functional, performance; + **Solution concept definition** , evaluation of alternatives against comprehensive criteria derived from the solution requirements; provide solution recommendations; + Solution implementation **planning and management** , including work breakdown structure definition, task planning, dependency analysis, resource coordination, and stakeholder engagement; + **Solution evaluation, testing, and acceptance coordination** , including test planning, development and delivery of stakeholder training, problem resolution, and related tasks. + **Developing and maintaining solution support** documentation, including service catalog content, user/project manuals, FAQs, and related content. Qualifications **Specific qualification requirements for the position include the following:** + 5+ years of progressive experience performing comparable systems engineering, implementation, and support functions + Expert knowledge of MS Windows platform and services architecture, including Active Directory / EntraID, Group Policy Objects (GPO), virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), application deployment frameworks and components, networking, and storage services; + Advanced knowledge of MS Azure and cloud services architecture, including compute, database, storage, network virtualization, and security services; + Working knowledge of network infrastructure, concepts of operation, and protocols such as TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, Syslog, etc. + Working knowledge of endpoint security (e.g., Defender, Trend Micro), SIEM (e.g., Splunk, Sentinel), vulnerability scanning (e.g., Tenable Nessus/Security Center), and other systems and security management tools + Project management skills, including scoping, work breakdown structure definition, planning and scheduling, risk analysis, earned value management (EVM), and related concepts. **General:** + Demonstrated time management and organization skills while working in a fast-paced, multidiscipline team environment; + Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; + Strong communication (oral and written) and presentation skills; + Proficiency with workflow and lifecycle management systems (e.g. Atlassian Jira) **Education and Certification:** + Education: + Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a Related Engineering Discipline + Certification: + Microsoft Certified Professional / Systems Engineer certification is strongly desired + Security+ or CISSP certification is strongly desired **Other:** + US Citizenship is a requirement for this position. **Abilities:** + Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time. + Sitting for extended periods of time. + Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction. + Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard. + Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. + Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. + Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. + Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. + Identify and understand the speech of another person.