Microsoft Systems Engineer

La Fédération des Hôpitaux Vaudois informatique (
Microsoft Systems Engineer
La Fédération des Hôpitaux Vaudois informatique (FHVi), is the preferred IT partner for 12 hospitals and regional healthcare institutions in the canton of Vaud. The FHVi accompanies them in the numerous challenges of digital transformation in the healthcare sector and has as its main missions to plan, design, implement, and operate the IT system of its members. These are more than 130 employees at the service of 14,000 users, for a fleet of more than 8,000 workstations distributed across about a hundred geographical sites and across three cantons (VD, VS, FR).
Microsoft Systems Engineer
Be part of the FHVi adventure!
You are passionate about Microsoft technologies and want to put them at the service of a critical and meaningful environment?
You like to design, automate, and secure infrastructures at the heart of digital issues in the healthcare sector, while maintaining close proximity to technology?
The FHVi is looking for a Microsoft Systems Engineer to strengthen its Systems team and play a central role in the maintenance, evolution, and transformation of its Microsoft ecosystem.
Your mission
As a Microsoft Systems Engineer, you are the technical referent for the FHVi Microsoft ecosystem. You intervene in the design, operation, securing, and evolution of Windows Server, Active Directory, and associated services platforms.
Within the Systems team, you actively contribute to the standardization, simplification, and automation of environments, ensuring the application of best practices and the consistency of architectures.
Your responsibilities
Microsoft Expertise & platform evolution
Ensure the role of technical referent on the FHVi Microsoft ecosystem: Windows Server, Active Directory, Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Exchange, PKI.
Design, operate, and evolve directory services (AD DS, GPO, forests and domains), messaging (Exchange on-premise and hybrid), RDS farms, and the internal PKI (ADCS).
Standardize and automate system environments (PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform, OpCon), ensuring the application of best practices and the consistency of architectures.
Operation, security & service continuity
Guarantee the stability, availability, and supervision of Microsoft infrastructures in production, and provide level 3 support in compliance with defined service levels.
Manage the life cycle of Microsoft components: planning updates, upgrades, decommissioning of obsolete systems.
Contribute, in collaboration with the CISO, to the securing of infrastructures: hardening, identity and access management, Microsoft security solutions (Defender), vulnerability and patch management.
Contribute to business continuity and disaster recovery plans (PCA / PRA) and participate in the on-call service according to the current procedures.
Document procedures, configurations, and best practices to ensure the sustainability of knowledge within the team.
Projects & continuous improvement
Participate in transformation and modernization projects of infrastructures and contribute to the definition of technical roadmaps.
Perform active technological monitoring and propose improvements meeting business needs and future challenges.
Profile sought
Education & experience
Higher education in IT (Bachelor or Master, HES/EPF Engineer or equivalent title).
Minimum 7 years of experience in systems engineering, with a strong Microsoft specialization, ideally in a critical, complex, and multi-site environment.
Technical skills
Advanced expertise of the Microsoft ecosystem: Windows Server, Active Directory, Entra ID, Exchange, PKI, WSUS, RDS farms.
Good knowledge of VMware virtualization (vSphere/ESXi, vCenter, cluster and resource management).
Good knowledge of PowerShell scripting.
Good knowledge of backup solutions and restoration strategies.
Knowledge of complex architectures: high availability, active-active datacenter, security by design, SSO.
Knowledge of infrastructure monitoring tools.
Knowledge of ITIL v4 processes (incident, problem, and change management) and practice of ITSM tools.
The holding of professional certifications (Microsoft, VMware, ITIL, etc.) is an asset.
Personal qualities
Ability to analyze needs, translate them into relevant technical solutions, and solve complex problems autonomously, while collaborating effectively in a team.
Overall vision and spirit of initiative allowing for the alignment of technical choices with strategic objectives and the long-term needs of the organization.
Rigor, sense of responsibility, and good writing skills, particularly for technical documentation.
Excellent communication skills, sense of service, and taste for knowledge sharing.
Languages
French: excellent oral and written mastery.
What we offer you:

• A stimulating opportunity to evolve in the healthcare sector, a constantly evolving and meaningful field.
• The possibility to actively contribute to ambitious projects related to the ongoing digital transformation
• A pleasant working environment within a human-sized organization, where team spirit and proximity are valued.
• Attractive employment conditions, with regular salary progression adapted to responsibilities, in accordance with the directives of the personnel status in force at the FHVi, notably:

A 13th month salary and competitive social benefits.
25 days of vacation per year (30 days from the year of 50 years old).
Access to continuous training to accompany v