The Systems Technologist is responsible for analyzing intricate technical requirements and executing all necessary steps for successful integrations between complex systems, prioritizing security, data integrity, and performance optimization, working under general supervision. The role defines and documents system-level technical specifications, translating business requirements into actionable plans. The role conducts impact assessments for new technologies or system changes by evaluating risks and devising effective mitigation strategies. The role presents findings and analysis to technical leadership and stakeholders, effectively communicating technical concepts and rationale to support system design decisions.
Your Role
As a Platform System Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, validating, deploying, and supporting enterprise IT infrastructure platforms that power healthcare imaging solutions, including PACS and Radiology Informatics systems.
You will work closely with R&D, Product Engineering, Support, and Customer teams to ensure platform scalability, performance, reliability, security, and operational excellence across customer environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and maintain platform architectures for enterprise healthcare imaging solutions.
- Define infrastructure standards, deployment models, and system sizing recommendations.
- Evaluate new technologies and translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Support virtualization, storage, networking, operating systems, and cloud platforms.
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, performance, and reliability issues.
- Develop automation scripts and tools to improve infrastructure monitoring and usage analytics.
- Participate in platform validation, performance testing, and capacity planning.
- Drive platform security, system hardening, patching, and compliance activities.
- Collaborate with global cross-functional teams throughout the product lifecycle.
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- Support customer escalations, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
You're the Right Fit If
Experience
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, System Administration, or Solution Architecture.
- Experience designing and supporting large-scale enterprise platforms.
- Experience working in global and cross-functional environments.
Technical Skills
- Strong expertise in VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, and virtualization technologies.
- Good understanding of Windows Server and Linux platforms.
- Strong knowledge of networking concepts including TCP/IP, VLANs, DNS, routing, switching, VPNs, and firewalls.
- Experience with enterprise storage technologies including SAN, NAS, and backup solutions.
- Experience with infrastructure monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
- Hands-on scripting and automation experience using PowerShell and/or Python.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) is an advantage.
- Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity concepts.
Healthcare & Product Knowledge
- Experience with Healthcare IT, Medical Imaging, PACS, RIS, VNA, DICOM, or HL7 is preferred.
- Understanding of enterprise software deployment and product lifecycle processes.
- Experience with system documentation, BOMs, validation documents, and traceability matrices.
Soft Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and documentation abilities.
- Ability to lead technical discussions and influence architecture decisions.
- Self-driven with strong ownership and customer focus.
Preferred Certifications
- VMware VCP / VCAP
- Microsoft,AWS ,Cisco
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