This Senior System Engineer role involves providing out-of-hours cover and ensuring consistency across staging/production and disaster recovery systems. Key responsibilities include escalating hardware and system problems, performing quarterly patching and firmware activities, and configuring/monitoring IBM servers. The role also entails attending to hardware and software issues, performing filesystem management, and providing CPU/memory utilization reports. Additional duties include log movement, working with development/support teams, hardening servers, user administration, and monitoring operating system patterns and hardware errors. Proactive interfacing with other infrastructure teams and documentation are also essential.