SOLUTIONS ENGINEER

About the Firm

Firm Mission

“Achieving Client Success through Research and Technology”

Los Angeles Capital, the “Firm”, is a global equity manager of assets for leading institutions around the world. The Firm is recognized as a pioneer in dynamic equity management, utilizing proprietary technology to engineer equity portfolios that adapt to today’s equity market. The Firm’s senior investment professionals have worked together for three decades developing models for measuring and forecasting return and risk of global equity securities. The Firm manages approximately $34.2 billion as of June 30, 2025, across a wide variety of public equity strategies designed to meet institutional client return and risk objectives. The Firm has been ranked for seven years in a row by Pensions and Investments as one of the “Best Places to Work in Money Management.” The Firm’s working environment places a strong focus on teamwork and values work-life balance. The Firm offers a competitive compensation package that includes health care plans, 401(k), and top-tier benefits. The Firm is 100% employee-owned through a holding company structure and seeks to retain and motivate employees’ long term. Los Angeles Capital firmly believes the quality and commitment of the individuals are vital to the success of the Firm, ensuring that client expectations are exceeded.

Position Overview

Reporting to the Director, IT Infrastructure, the Solutions Engineer will be proactive and hands-on, responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise-grade infrastructure solutions with a focus on networking, virtualization, automation, and physical hardware support. This role involves close collaboration with IT, software engineering, and cross-functional teams.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain virtual, physical, and cloud-based server infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot, resolve system issues and provide root cause analysis (RCA).
• Oversee daily operations in virtual environments, networking, storage, and cloud resources
• Perform data center tasks including rack and stack of servers, cabling, diagnostics and vendor coordination.
• Deploy and manage VMware ESXi hosts, vCenter, and vSphere Distributed Networking.
• Respond to user requests and deliver requested system resources timely and efficiently.
• Communicate with users on status and resolution of issues; Follow-up with users to ensure issue has been resolved.
• Support monthly patching and software updates (business and after hours).
• Maintain and administer data protection solutions including backups and archives (on premise and on the cloud).
• Apply security best practices and enforce least privilege principles.
• Exhibit strong understanding of fundamentals including scripting, networking, OSI layers, storage (NAS/SAN/RAID), VMWare vSphere
• Build re-usable scripts to automate repetitive tasks and reporting.
• Research and recommend new technologies.
• Collaborate with help desk, developers and IT teams on creative solutions.

Skills and Knowledge Required

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or information systems technology.
• 3+ years in systems/network administration or solutions engineering.
• Proficiency with:
• Microsoft Windows Server, WSUS, Active Directory, AD Group Policy, Microsoft Entra
• VMWare Virtual Center, ESXi, vSphere
• Cisco CLI, PowerShell scripting
• Certifications
• VMware VCP or equivalent hands-on VMWare experience
• Cisco CCNA or equivalent hands-on networking experience
• Candidates with strong experience but lacking formal certification in one area are encouraged to apply
• Experience with:
• Dell Servers and Storage
• Managing resources on AWS / Azure
• Switches, routers, and/or firewalls
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excellent display of professionalism and strong work ethic
• Ability to work on multiple tasks and projects

Skills and Knowledge Desired

• Familiar with Disaster Recovery testing
• Familiarity with Veeam Backup and Replication
• Exposure to enterprise security tools and practices

This is a hybrid position based in Los Angeles, CA which requires weekly attendance.

Los Angeles Capital is an SEC registered investment adviser and required to track certain political contributions under rule 206(4)-5. Therefore, you will be required to disclose your prior political contributions.

Los Angeles Capital is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual’s race, color, religion, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status or disability.

For more information about the company, please refer to our website at www.lacapm.com.

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