Allison Transmission
Senior System Engineer
Indianapolis, IN · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 15 days ago
PythonPowerShellCloud PlatformsTerraformAnsibleLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- For over 100 years, Allison has powered the vehicles and technology that move our world forward.
- From the first person hired by James Allison in 1915 to the thousands across the globe who work for Allison today, we're driving progress everywhere because we employ top talent worldwide.
- Learn more about this role and how you can begin driving your career forward!
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and support robust infrastructure solutions across server, virtualization, storage, backup, file services, and cloud platforms.
- Lead complex troubleshooting and serve as a senior escalation point for major incidents, performance issues, and recurring platform instability.
- Drive automation, configuration management, and Infrastructure as Code practices to improve consistency, speed, and reliability.
- Lead lifecycle planning, capacity management, and technical refresh activities for infrastructure platforms.
- Develop and enforce engineering standards for compliance, patching, resiliency, observability, and operational readiness.
- Support containerization and orchestration platforms where applicable, including standards, operations, and integration.
- Partner with database, application, security, and network teams to optimize platform performance and ensure recoverability.
- Influence - Advanced: Gains alignment across teams on standards, design decisions, and operational improvements.
- Coaching - Intermediate/Advanced: Develops less experienced engineers through mentoring and knowledge sharing.
- Building cities.
Requirements
- Strong written and verbal communication skills required.
- 5-8 years of progressive infrastructure engineering experience.
- Strong experience with automation, scripting, and/or IaC tools such as PowerShell, Python, Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
- Experience leading technical implementation efforts or platform upgrades.
- Experience with disaster recovery, backup strategy, and capacity/performance management.
- No direct people management required, but often leads technical work across teams.
- Deep experience in hybrid infrastructure, including datacenter and cloud operations.
- Exposure to enterprise compliance, audit support, and infrastructure standards governance.
- Scope Factors:
- Supports highly critical enterprise services with broad business and operational impact.
- Regularly handles complex technical decisions with limited oversight.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred.
- Advanced technical certification(s) preferred in cloud, virtualization, automation, storage, or operating systems.
- ITIL or similar operational governance knowledge preferred.
Benefits
- The below list features some of the benefits currently available.
- Eligibility may be subject to the terms and conditions of governing documents and available benefits may be subject to change at the company's discretion.
- Choice of medical plans with prescription coverage
- Employer HSA contribution
- Dental & Vision Insurance
- Paid Parental Leave
- Short & Long-Term Disability
- Other voluntary benefits including: Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Identity Theft Protection and Pet Insurance
- Accrued Paid Time Off
- 12 Paid Holidays + 1 Floating Holiday
- Robust employee wellness program
- Tuition assistance program
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