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01/07/2026

Senior Systems Engineer

Job Description

Be Here. Be Great. Working for a leader in the insurance industry means opportunity for you. Great American Insurance Group's member companies are subsidiaries of American Financial Group. We combine a "small company" culture where your ideas will be heard with "big company" expertise to help you succeed. With over 30 specialty and property and casualty operations, there are always opportunities here to learn and grow.

At Great American, we value and recognize the benefits derived when people with different backgrounds and experiences work together to achieve business results. Our goal is to create a workplace where all employees feel included, empowered, and enabled to perform at their best.

P&C IT Services provides professional services to help our business units and corporate functions use technology to create, manage, and optimize information and business processes.  IT Services can include a wide range of activities such as: software development, data management, Cloud services, IT security, network security, technical support, establishing and overseeing access rights, procuring and maintaining equipment or software, managing the infrastructure, and defining security procedures,  The overall goal of IT Services is to provide technology solutions that increase efficiency, reduce costs, and give our company a competitive advantage over our competitors.

The Infrastructure team within P&C IT Services is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer. This individual will work a hybrid schedule in the Cincinnati office.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities:

  • Review, analyze, build, configure and administer servers (physical, virtual, IaaS and appliances)
  • Support Windows and Red Hat servers in traditional, private and hybrid cloud environments
  • Support web configurations including Apace, Web Logic, JBOSS, IIS or equivalent
  • Support and utilize RedHat tools including Ansible and Satellite for environment automation, desired state and management
  • Install, configure and administer high availability clusters across multiple data centers and regions
  • Create and maintain complex scripting using PowerShell, Bash, Perl, Python or equivalents for automation, reporting and environment management
  • Migrate and rehost applications and servers associated with data center migrations and acquisitions
  • Provide solution engineering services to Infrastructure customers
  • Single point of contact for infrastructure platform requests as well as dependencies
  • Consult with personnel to identify current operating procedures, clarify objectives and provide feedback to further improve processes and automation
  • Recommend and implement enhancements to improve the efficiency, security, supportability and/or resiliency of the IT ecosystem
  • Utilize and expand capabilities of existing tools to improve the IT ecosystem
  • Collaborate with other technical staff to resolve problems with infrastructure and applications
  • Responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements
  • Provide on-call support (Weeknights/Weekends).
  • Lead moderately complex projects.
  • Work independently in the absence of supervision
  • Create and maintain technical documentation
  • Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline or equivalent experience.

Required Skills:

  • Excellent analytical, organizational, strategic and critical thinking skills
  • Detailed understanding of monitoring and service management
  • Operating System: Linux RedHat 7, 8, 9 and Windows server 2019, 2022, 2025
  • Management/Patching: Satellite and MECM
  • Experienced with a variety of automation tools such as Ansible, VRA, VRO
  • Middleware support/configuration using Web Logic, JBOSS, Apache, and IIS
  • Storage: Local and SAN (All RAID Types), NFS, RDM, etc.
  • Hardware: Dell, HP, Cisco UCS, Blades and Chassis
  • Environmental: VMware 3 tier, VMware Cloud Foundation, Azure Local and Azure Cloud
  • Security: Knowledgeable of firewalls, server security, encryption, Networking (NSX)
  • Knowledgeable of disaster recovery processes and principles
  • Knowledgeable of project management process and principles
  • Infrastructure as Code: design and security, configuration management, integration, deployment, performance monitoring and tuning, automation of infrastructure.
  • Experience with deployment and management of landing zones in one or more of the public cloud providers (AWS, Azure or GCP)
  • Exhibit specialized knowledge of cloud platforms, specifically Azure. 

Preferred Skills:

  • Deep knowledge of Terraform, GitHub, Github Actions, CI/CD and Azure DevOps.
  • Experience designing and maintaining an IaaS imaging and integration platform for deployment of resources to the public cloud.
  • Database: SQL, Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL systems at an OS admin and Windows clustering level
  • Identify, communicate and mitigate Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Decisions associated with engineering of cloud infrastructure solutions
  • Working knowledge of one or more high-level programming languages (C#, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.).

Business Unit:

Property & Casualty IT Services

Benefits:

We offer competitive benefits packages for full-time and part-time employees*. Full-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision coverage, wellness plans, parental leave, adoption assistance, and tuition reimbursement. Full-time and eligible part-time employees also enjoy Paid Time Off and paid holidays, a 401(k) plan with company match, an employee stock purchase plan, and commuter benefits.

 

Compensation varies by role, level, and location and is influenced by skills, experience, and business needs. Your recruiter will provide details about benefits and specific compensation ranges during the hiring process. Learn more at http://www.gaig.com/careers.

 

*Excludes seasonal employees and interns.


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Great American Insurance Group
Great American Insurance Group

Great American Insurance Group understands the importance of choosing a financially strong company. We are an organization built for the long term and are committed to giving you that strength.

 

Why can you trust Great American Insurance Group?

 

For nearly 150 years, Americans have trusted us to protect them. Our innovative insurance solutions and specialization serves niche marketplaces that we know well. This expertise gives us a successful foundation that spans generations.

 

You never know where a career in insurance will take you. Whether you are starting your career or are looking for a company to grow your experience, at Great American Insurance Group, you can join our more than 8,500 employees to “Be Here. Be GREAT!”