Principal Systems Engineer
At SanMar, the work you do makes a difference.
What's the Short Version?
The Principal Systems Engineer owns the architecture and continuous improvement of SanMar's Compute platform: the servers, operating systems, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure that every SanMar application runs on. This is a mixed stack role by design. Windows Server, Linux, VMware, and Microsoft Azure are treated as one platform rather than four specialties, and a growing share of the work is codifying that platform in Terraform and pipelines rather than building it by hand. The Principal Systems Engineer sets compute standards and reference architectures, leads modernization, and lifecycle work across the on premises and Azure environment, and is the highest level technical resource when something complex breaks.
What Will You Be Doing?
- Own the architecture, standards, and reference designs for SanMar's Compute platform across Windows Server, Linux, VMware, and Microsoft Azure.
- Design, build, and operate infrastructure in Microsoft Azure, including landing zones, subscription and resource organization, RBAC, network integration, and cost and capacity management.
- Codify infrastructure as code in Terraform and
