Staff Systems Engineer, Microsoft Infrastructure
Crusoe is an active AI-infrastructure company operating an AI cloud platform, managed AI services, and AI data-center infrastructure.
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About Crusoe, Inc.
Crusoe designs, builds, and operates energy-first AI infrastructure. Its offerings include Crusoe Cloud for GPU-based training, fine-tuning, inference, and managed services, alongside AI-optimized data centers and energy infrastructure.
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About the Role
You will own Crusoe's corporate IT infrastructure end to end, from servers and virtualization to storage, networking and cloud platforms. You'll personally build, migrate and support servers, act as the escalation owner when things break, and set the infrastructure roadmap while working with business stakeholders. You'll also migrate specialized applications from on-prem to the cloud and mentor junior team members.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on infrastructure experience including recent ownership of Windows Server environments
- Track record of migrating production servers and applications from on-prem to cloud
- Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (GCP, Azure or AWS)
- Solid foundations in storage, virtualization and networking
- Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, Bicep or ARM) plus PowerShell or CLI scripting
- Entra ID and Microsoft 365 administration; Entra integration with Okta or another identity provider
- Experience owning backup, disaster recovery and incident response
- Comfort with hands-on physical server work and regular travel to sites
- Experience setting technical direction and prioritizing a roadmap while staying hands-on; clear communication with non-technical stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Manage and modernize Windows Server environments including Active Directory, DNS/DHCP, Group Policy, certificate services and file infrastructure across Hyper-V, VMware and bare-metal
- Drive on-premises to multi-cloud server migrations (Azure, GCP, AWS)
- Architect and operate core compute, storage and server networking resources
- Deploy Azure Arc to standardize governance, security policies and monitoring across hybrid environments
- Design and maintain IaC configurations using Terraform, Bicep or ARM templates
- Oversee Microsoft 365 and Entra ID tenant health, Conditional Access, MFA and Okta federation
- Lead monitoring, backups, disaster recovery and incident response including on-call escalation
- Execute physical server deployment including racking, cabling and provisioning with occasional site travel
- Establish infrastructure roadmaps and technical standards ensuring SOC 2 and SOX compliance
- Mentor junior IT systems team members and produce architecture diagrams and runbooks
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
- Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
- Employer contributions to HSA account
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- Professional development & tuition reimbursement
- Mental health & wellness support
- Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
- Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance
- Additional perks & programs specific to location
