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TAXWELL

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2003

⚖️ Legal

💸 Finance

💼 Consulting

Legal • Finance • Consulting

TAXWELL is a legal services firm specializing in international and national tax advice, litigation, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and board room counseling. With over 20 years of experience, the firm consists of tax and corporate lawyers who are well-versed in Supreme Court litigation and have backgrounds in the Big Four accounting firms. TAXWELL is known for its niche focus and quality segment, boasting close cooperation with renowned arbitrators and foreign counsel while maintaining steady autonomous growth.

📋 Description

• Own architecture, technical standards, lifecycle strategy, and multi-year roadmaps for enterprise systems infrastructure, with emphasis on colocation and hybrid environments. • Design and optimize highly available compute, virtualization, storage, backup, and recovery solutions for performance, scalability, security, supportability, and cost. • Provide deep technical leadership for virtualization, server and blade infrastructure, storage, data protection, and related data center technologies. • Lead platform refreshes, migrations, consolidations, disaster recovery improvements, data center transitions, and cloud integration through operational handoff. • Partner across cloud, security, network, application, database, and operations teams to deliver resilient end-to-end solutions. • Establish engineering standards, reference architectures, build patterns, configuration baselines, capacity models, and lifecycle practices. • Serve as a senior escalation point for high-impact incidents, leading root-cause analysis, response coordination, and durable corrective actions. • Apply security-by-design principles and maintain controls supporting policy, regulatory requirements, vulnerability management, and audit readiness. • Mentor systems engineers, review designs and implementation plans, promote knowledge sharing, and raise engineering capability across the team. • Influence technical decisions through clear recommendations, tradeoff analysis, risk communication, and stakeholder collaboration. • Manage technical vendor relationships involving architecture, escalations, product strategy, licensing, lifecycle planning, and service improvement. • Evaluate and responsibly use GPT, Anthropic Claude, agentic AI, and local LLM solutions to improve automation, troubleshooting, documentation, and engineering efficiency. • Establish secure patterns and governance for AI-enabled infrastructure, protecting company data, identities, credentials, and intellectual property. • Promote automation through AI, infrastructure-as-code, scripting, APIs, and repeatable workflows. • Maintain architecture diagrams, system documentation, operating procedures, recovery plans, standards, and decision records. • Travel and provide hands-on implementation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and after-hours support when business needs require it.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent education and relevant experience. • 8+ years of progressive systems or infrastructure engineering experience, including 3+ years leading technical designs, major initiatives, architecture decisions, or engineering standards. • Experience supporting production infrastructure requiring high availability, security, recoverability, and disciplined change management. • Expert VMware vSphere/ESXi and vCenter knowledge, including clustering, lifecycle management, performance, and troubleshooting. • Strong storage, backup, and recovery experience, preferably with Pure Storage and Cohesity. • Experience with Dell chassis and blade infrastructure, firmware, lifecycle management, and vendor support. • Advanced Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, identity, and authentication knowledge; working knowledge of Linux/Unix. • Experience designing resilient colocation, on-premises, and hybrid cloud infrastructure, including AWS integration. • Familiarity with Cisco, Ubiquiti, and Palo Alto products; primary focus remains systems, compute, storage, virtualization, backup, and hardware. • Experience with monitoring, capacity planning, observability, incident response, root-cause analysis, and performance troubleshooting. • Experience with PowerShell, Python, Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, APIs, or similar automation tools, plus secure configuration and compliance practices. • Ability to evaluate technologies, document architecture decisions, and communicate recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.

🏖️ Benefits

• At Taxwell, you can expect a supportive, open, and inclusive atmosphere and a team that values your contributions.