Your Role
As a Platform System Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, validating, deploying, and supporting enterprise IT infrastructure platforms that power healthcare imaging solutions, including PACS and Radiology Informatics systems.
You will work closely with R&D, Product Engineering, Support, and Customer teams to ensure platform scalability, performance, reliability, security, and operational excellence across customer environments.
Key Responsibilities
Design and maintain platform architectures for enterprise healthcare imaging solutions.
Define infrastructure standards, deployment models, and system sizing recommendations.
Evaluate new technologies and translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Support virtualization, storage, networking, operating systems, and cloud platforms.
Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, performance, and reliability issues.
Develop automation scripts and tools to improve infrastructure monitoring and usage analytics.
Participate in platform validation, performance testing, and capacity planning.
Drive platform security, system hardening, patching, and compliance activities.
Collaborate with global cross-functional teams throughout the product lifecycle.
Support customer escalations, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
You're the Right Fit If
Experience
7+ years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, System Administration, or Solution Architecture.
Experience designing and supporting large-scale enterprise platforms.
Experience working in global and cross-functional environments.
Technical Skills
Strong expertise in VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, and virtualization technologies.
Good understanding of Windows Server and Linux platforms.
Strong knowledge of networking concepts including TCP/IP, VLANs, DNS, routing, switching, VPNs, and firewalls.
Experience with enterprise storage technologies including SAN, NAS, and backup solutions.
Experience with infrastructure monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
Hands-on scripting and automation experience using PowerShell and/or Python.
Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS.
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) is an advantage.
Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity concepts.
Healthcare & Product Knowledge
Experience with Healthcare IT, Medical Imaging, PACS, RIS, VNA, DICOM, or HL7 is preferred.
Understanding of enterprise software deployment and product lifecycle processes.
Experience with system documentation, BOMs, validation documents, and traceability matrices.
Soft Skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent communication, presentation, and documentation abilities.
Ability to lead technical discussions and influence architecture decisions.
Self-driven with strong ownership and customer focus.
Preferred Certifications
VMware VCP / VCAP
Microsoft,AWS ,Cisco
About Philips
We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.
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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, System Administration, or Solution Architecture
- Experience designing and supporting large-scale enterprise platforms
- Experience working in global and cross-functional environments
- Expertise in VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter
- Windows Server administration
- Linux administration
- Networking knowledge: TCP/IP, VLANs, DNS, routing, switching, VPNs, and firewalls
- Experience with enterprise storage technologies (SAN, NAS) and backup solutions
- Infrastructure monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning experience
- Hands-on scripting and automation using PowerShell and/or Python
- Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible)
- Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity concepts
- Experience with Healthcare IT and medical imaging technologies (PACS, RIS, VNA, DICOM, HL7)
- Experience creating system documentation, BOMs, validation documents, and traceability matrices
- Preferred certifications: VMware VCP/VCAP, Microsoft, AWS, Cisco
Philips Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Philips and has not been reviewed or approved by Philips.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a standout, including a strong 401(k) match (often described at 7%) alongside pensions in some contexts.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible benefits are emphasized through choice in health insurance options and a broad “Total Rewards” approach that combines compensation, health and wellness, and work-life support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous paid time off and policies covering parental leave, caregiving responsibilities, volunteering, and family medical leave.
Philips Insights
What We Do
Do the work of your life to help the lives of others. As a leading health technology company, it is our purpose to improve people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation. Our goal is to improve 2.5 billion lives per year by 2030. We also strive to be the best place to work for people who share our passion, by promoting personal development, inclusion and diversity while acting responsibly towards our planet and society.
