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About the Role

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer for its Information Technology Department in the New York office. This role supports the Infrastructure & Security team, requiring a blend of deep technical expertise and an understanding of security, compliance, and user experience within a legal or regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Architect and manage Microsoft Hyper-V clusters, including live migration, failover clustering, and Storage Spaces Direct (S2D).
• Administer System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) for Hyper-V host management, logical networks, VM provisioning, and cluster lifecycle operations.
• Configure and maintain virtual networking, including VM switches, VLANs, QoS, and SR-IOV.
• Manage VM lifecycle, including provisioning, snapshotting, backup integration, and decommissioning.
• Performance-tune Hyper-V hosts and resolve complex hypervisor-level issues.
• Implement Hyper-V replica for disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Convert servers from VMware to Hyper-V.
• Build and maintain server OS images.
• Develop and maintain PowerShell automation for infrastructure provisioning, operational workflow, health monitoring, reporting, and platform maintenance.
• Hands-on experience with Cisco Server Management.
• Administer and maintain Cisco Intersight for server lifecycle management, policy-based configuration, and UCS infrastructure health.
• Build and assign Cisco IMM domain and server profiles, policies, and manage firmware upgrades.
• Design, administer, and maintain Active Directory domains, forests, and trusts across multi-site environments.
• Manage Group Policy Objects (GPOs) for security baselines, software deployment, and environment configuration.
• Design and implement Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) models aligned to least-privilege principles.
• Perform AD health monitoring, replication troubleshooting, and schema management.
• Implement and enforce AD tiering models and privileged access workstation (PAW) strategies.
• Administer enterprise-grade DHCP infrastructure, including scope management, failover, and high availability configurations.
• Manage internal and external DNS zones, records, and conditional forwarding across hybrid environments.
• Troubleshoot name resolution and IP address allocation issues across complex multi-VLAN networks.
• Manage hybrid identity scenarios, including Entra Connect sync, pass-through authentication, and seamless SSO.
• Administer, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise storage platforms including Pure Storage, NetApp, and Dell EMC Unity.
• Perform storage provisioning, capacity planning, firmware upgrades, and performance monitoring.
• Support incident resolution and collaborate with infrastructure teams on backup, disaster recovery, and system integrations.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a Windows infrastructure engineering or architecture role.
• Deep hands-on expertise with Microsoft Hyper-V in clustered, production environments.
• Strong working knowledge of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and Windows Server administration.
• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID and hybrid identity architectures.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, VLANs, routing, firewall rules).
• Experience working in enterprise environments with a strong change management discipline.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to document complex systems clearly.
• Experience deploying and managing Guardicore Centra for network micro-segmentation and east-west traffic control.

Skills

• Microsoft Hyper-V
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
• Virtual Networking
• VMware
• PowerShell Automation
• Cisco Server Management
• Cisco Intersight
• Cisco UCS
• Active Directory
• Group Policy Objects (GPOs)
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
• DHCP
• DNS
• Microsoft Entra ID
• Hybrid Identity
• Pure Storage
• NetApp
• Dell EMC Unity
• Guardicore Centra

Location

• New York

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior
• 5+ years

Salary/Compensations

• USD $170,000.00 - USD $180,000.00 /Yr.

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation package
• Exceptional benefits

About the Company

• Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is an elite international law firm with approximately 1,300 lawyers located in 16 offices in six countries.
• We believe great people are the key to our success.
• We offer unique opportunities to expand professional development in a friendly, collaborative environment.

Equal Opportunity

• Willkie Farr & Gallagher is an Equal Opportunity employer.
• We do not discriminate based upon actual or perceived: race (including hair texture, protective hairstyles and other traits associated with race), color, age, religious creed, citizenship, citizenship status and alienage, nationality, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity or creed, disability, genetic information or medical condition, reproductive health decision making, pregnancy or maternity, paternity, marital or civil partnership status, caregiver status, gender (including gender identity, expression, nonconformity, gender reassignment or status as a transgender individual), sex, sexual orientation or preference, veteran or military status, height, weight, any other characteristic protected by law or any combination thereof.
• We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.
• Pursuant to the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO) and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicant with arrest and conviction records.