Systems Engineer IV

Overview
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. Based in Seattle, Fred Hutch is the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in Washington.

With a track record of global leadership in bone marrow transplantation, HIV/AIDS prevention, immunotherapy and COVID-19 vaccines, Fred Hutch has earned a reputation as one of the world's leading cancer, infectious disease and biomedical research centers. Fred Hutch operates eight clinical care sites that provide medical oncology, infusion, radiation, proton therapy and related services, and network affiliations with hospitals in five states. Together, our fully integrated research and clinical care teams seek to discover new cures to the world's deadliest diseases and make life beyond cancer a reality.

At Fred Hutch we value collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity and respect. Our mission is directly tied to the humanity, dignity and inherent value of each employee, patient, community member and supporter. Our commitment to learning across our differences and similarities make us stronger. We seek employees who bring different and innovative ways of seeing the world and solving problems.

The
Systems Engineer IV
(SE IV) is a technical leader within the Systems Engineering team, resolving complex issues, mentoring less experienced team members, providing technical guidance and organizational support for the team. The SE IV is expected to ensure the stability, integrity, and efficient operation of infrastructure systems that support core organizational functions. The SE IV is responsible for evaluating systems and their interdependency and determining future requirements, as well as optimizing current systems. This includes monitoring, tuning, and performing gap analyses of infrastructure systems. As the technical lead, this role will apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help identify, communicate, and resolve complex problems to maximize the benefit of IT systems investments and minimize service interruptions.

The Systems Engineer IV evaluates, designs, plans, and leads the implementation of large-scale systems. Additionally, the SE IV provides technical leadership and training to lower-level systems engineers; and is responsible for improvements to infrastructure systems-related processes and standards.

The Senior Systems Engineer will play a critical role in enabling secure digital workspaces, hybrid cloud adoption, AI-driven operations, and automated systems management. This role will directly support research, clinical operations, and enterprise operational excellence.

A key focus will be the architecture and design of advanced virtualization platforms to support critical business, research, and clinical workloads. The position will lead the adoption of secure managed digital workspaces, hybrid cloud compute, and high-availability virtualization platforms. This role will be 50% Domain Architecture working closely with Enterprise Architecture.

This role will have the opportunity to work partially at our campus and remotely.
Evening and/or weekend work may occasionally be required.

Responsibilities
May perform some or all the following responsibilities:

Operational

• Fulfill day-to-day operational tasks associated with maintaining infrastructure systems.
• Serve as technical lead or team member for large, complex projects to provide new or improved infrastructure services.
• Install/build, configure, administer, and decommission infrastructure systems, including upgrades, patching, and migrations.
• Build and document processes for maintenance that can be carried out by other teams
• Provide 24/7 on-call support for mission critical infrastructure systems on a rotating basis.
• Create, modify, and delete user accounts using the