Microsoft Systems Engineer

• 04 September 2026
• 100%
• Indefinite duration
• Possible
• Route de Cery 4, 1008 Prilly

La Fédération des Hôpitaux Vaudois informatique (FHVi) is the preferred IT partner of 12 regional hospitals and healthcare establishments in the canton of Vaud. FHVi accompanies them through the many challenges of digital transformation in the healthcare sector and has the primary missions of planning, designing, implementing, and operating the IT systems of its members. This represents more than 130 employees serving 14,000 users, for a fleet of more than 8,000 workstations distributed across about a hundred geographical sites and three cantons (VD, VS, FR).

Microsoft Systems Engineer

Be part of the FHVi adventure!

Are you passionate about Microsoft technologies and want to put them at the service of a critical and meaningful environment?

Do you like to design, automate, and ensure the reliability of infrastructures at the heart of digital issues in the healthcare sector, while maintaining close proximity to technology?

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 reference for FHVi's Microsoft ecosystem. You intervene in the design, operation, security, 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

• Act as the technical reference for 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 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 lifecycle of Microsoft components: planning updates, upgrades, decommissioning 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 projects for the transformation and modernization 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

Training & experience

• Higher education in computer science (Bachelor or Master, HES/EPF Engineer or an equivalent title).
• Minimum 7 years of experience in systems engineering, with a strong specialization in Microsoft, ideally in a critical, complex, and multi-site environment.

Technical skills

• Advanced expertise in 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 with ITSM tools.
• Holding 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.
• Big-picture vision and initiative to align 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 a 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 personnel status directives in force at FHVi, notably:
• A 13th month salary and competitive social benefits.
• 25 days of vacation per