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Grow Your Skills and Make Your Mark in a Continually Evolving Environment

Serve as the Sr. System Engineer supporting a multi-state network of systems

The Senior Systems Engineer will be subject matter expert and is responsible for the optimization, administration, and protection of all back-end computing systems across multiple geographically locations and data centers. This includes but is not limited to infrastructure systems, server, backup, VMware, Citrix, cloud-based computing environments as well as any connected endpoints.

Bring new ideas and work closely with IT, external departments, and providers to design, implement, and ensure quality delivery of services. The areas of responsibilities include implement and optimize the company’s infrastructure systems, develop processes and procedures, develop dashboards and reporting mechanisms, and manage the availability, reliability, performance, monitoring, and security of the technology environment. This position will be in Houston, TX.


Par Pacific Holdings, Inc., based in Houston, Texas, owns, manages and maintains interests in energy and infrastructure businesses. Par Pacific's strategy is to identify, acquire and operate energy and infrastructure companies with attractive competitive positions. We own and operate one of the largest energy infrastructure networks in Hawaii with a 94,000-bpd refinery, a logistics network supplying the major islands of the state and 90 retail locations. In Wyoming, Par Pacific owns a refinery and associated logistics network in a niche market. Par Pacific also owns 42.3% of Laramie Energy, LLC, a joint venture entity focused on producing natural gas in Garfield, Mesa and Rio Blanco Counties, Colorado. In January 2018, Par Petroleum LLC, a subsidiary of Par Pacific Holdings Inc., entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 33 Cenex Zip Trip convenience stores in eastern Washington and northwestern Idaho from CHS Inc. The C-Stores are Par Pacific Holdings' first retail assets in the continental United States; we have more than 30 retail outlets in Hawaii. Par Pacific has an active, opportunistic growth strategy. Our common stock is publicly traded on the NYSE MKT under the trading symbol "PARR".

Note: Par Pacific will not accept calls from third-party recruiters. All candidates are required to apply through this web posting.

The Requirements

To meet the basic qualification for this role, you will have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship. In addition, to be a good fit for the Sr. System Engineer opportunity, you will have:
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field such as computer science or computer engineering; advance degree preferred. Oil and Gas industry experience a plus.
  • VCP (VMware) Required​
  • Minimum of 5 years configuring and managing VMWare Virtualization Platforms
  • Minimum of 8 years designing, configuring and managing Microsoft Server Platforms and services including Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, etc
  • Strong working knowledge and hands on experience with architecture, implementing and managing Cloud Compute platforms such as AWS and Azure
  • Provide subject matter knowledge and expertise on Microsoft Azure and/or AWS Cloud
  • Minimum 3 years’ experience with Azure and managing advanced cloud resources
  • Knowledge and experience with cloud-based architectures and delivery models
    • Exchange 2016 and Office365
    • Skype/OneDrive for Business and Teams
    • Storage/Cloud Storage
  • Security+ preferred
  • Cloud preferred
  • Citrix preferred
Top candidates also will have several of the following: Just as important will be the following competencies and characteristics:
  • Exceptional conceptual thinking and analysis skills, coupled with highly effective presentation, influencing and negotiation skills.
  • A demonstrated ability to collaborate with peers and clients.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Flexibility in concepts and action and the ability to handle aggressive mission critical deadlines.
  • The ability to:
    • Work with minimal supervision and to divide focus among many different projects.
    • Work independently, also contribute as a team player and build bridges with other internal IS teams.
    • Resolve problems professionally and systematically.
    • Multi-task and prioritize.
    • Act professionally at all times with all internal and external customers and vendors.
    Excellent collaboration skills.
  • Strong documentation abilities.
You also will need to be flexible and able to adjust your work schedule to accommodate unexpected changes and communications with stakeholders in different time zones. One week may involve typical work hours while the following week may require some evening or weekend hours. You'll also participate in an on-call rotation one to two weeks per month.

The Role

Opportunity Overview

You will work with and take direction from the IT Manager, and serve as the subject matter expert for architecture, building, implementing, testing, and troubleshooting Par enterprise systems. You'll also provide operational support for the Par Pacific infrastructure. This will include:
  • Design solutions on VMware vCenter/ESXi based on business requirements and VMware best practices
  • Expert level knowledge of VMware, Exchange, backup and storage (Nimble, EMC, Hitachi)
  • Expert level knowledge of Citrix 6.X/7.X, Windows 2003/2008/2012/2016 and Active Directory administration.
  • Experience designing, building, and maintaining complex, multi-farm Citrix environments. Core technologies used include XenApp, XenDesktop, Citrix Provisioning Services, Citrix Access Gateways and Citrix Netscalers.
  • The position will be responsible for the day-to-day administration of mission-critical services deployed using the above solutions
  • General cloud PaaS/IaaS integrations spanning multiple projects and timelines.
  • Migrating privately hosted and on-premises services to Microsoft Azure or VMWare ESXi
  • Knowledge of Cisco, HP, Dell hardware a plus.
  • Provision, install, test, support, and maintain hardware and software for server systems.
  • Automating and performing Infrastructure tasks using industry standard products.
  • This position also requires excellent written and oral communication skills. The person should be able to work independently with minimum supervision and assistance and able to adjust priorities as needed and meet deadlines.
  • Other duties as assigned Quick question for you - click here
In addition, you will lead and mentor both onshore and offshore team members in the lifecycle support of the network and associated management systems, while working with operations teams to improve system availability and efficiencies.


Pictured: One of Par Pacific's operations is the largest and most complex refinery in Hawaii, on Oahu. It's part of an integrated statewide logistics system that includes 8 terminals, 3 barges and 27 miles of pipeline.

More Good Reasons

Employee Value Proposition
Par Pacific is a growing energy company that provides more opportunity and career growth potential because of our ambition, entrepreneurial mindset, our premier market position, and our integrated business systems.

Working at Par Pacific is different. Because Par is a smaller energy company, employees have the opportunity to make a great impact on the business and to influence decisions. People truly have amazing careers at Par because they are exposed to all areas of the company and are connected to many of the industry experts. You will directly interact with key players throughout our business and have many opportunities to learn and grow your skill across platforms, as well as in various aspects of people and project management.

Excellent compensation
In addition to a competitive salary and bonus opportunity, we offer a strong comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision insurance; life and AD&D insurance; a 401(k) with company match; a robust paid-time-off and vacation benefit, retirement savings plans; employee assistance programs; gym membership allowance, and more.

Professional growth with a strong mentor
You'll enjoy the autonomy to excel alongside strong mentorship and support from your supervisor. He'll help you succeed today and set yourself up for further success in the future. Additionally, you will work alongside a 3rd-party consultant when you first join us, who will help you learn our processes and equipment.

Unique Culture
There is nothing ordinary about Par Pacific -- an unorthodox niche player in the energy space that drives operations from production-to-delivery. And there's certainly nothing ordinary about Par Pacific people. If you're at Par, you're a driven, creative-thinking, hardworking, entrepreneur-minded professional that loves to win. If that describes you, you'll fit right in!

Great Team
We have a relatively new and growing team of energetic people helping to build out IT. We have developed positive relationships with each other, and the whole team is ready to help each other rise. On the other hand, we all take ownership of our responsibilities and maintain a commitment to meeting goals and objectives. The environment is both collegial and productive.

Location, location, location
Because Par Pacific is located in some of the most beautiful places throughout the country, our employees get to make these places their home and enrich their lives. The office where you'll work is located in the Memorial City area of Houston, near the Memorial City Mall. It's a vibrant area of the city with plenty of places for lunch or to wind down after work. We also have lots of free parking.

Opportunistic growth strategy
At Par Pacific, we look for operations with strong fundamentals and great employees who can move a business forward. Our management team has deep experience in the energy industry, as well as in leading mergers, acquisitions, and integrations of newly acquired companies. Ongoing acquisitions create new and interesting challenges for the IT team.

Award-winning impact
We are making an award-winning impact on the Oil & Gas Market. In fact, the Houston Chronicle ranked Par Pacific as #8 on the annual Chronicle 100 list of top performing companies powering Houston's economy in 2017! Companies were ranked by performance criteria reflecting stock performance, revenue growth and total revenue.

Pictured: Par Pacific's Wyoming operations are capable of producing 18,000 barrels per day, with a logistics network that includes 140 miles of crude oil gathering systems, 40 miles of refined product pipeline and approximately 600,000 barrels of storage capacity.

Keys to Success

To fit our team and culture, you'll have a casual and easy-going personality along with a strong work ethic. You should be willing to dive in and help at any time, and take pride in meeting deadlines and providing top-quality work. Within a few months, you should have established a reputation as a team player who is dependable and trustworthy.

In addition, to be an outstanding Sr. System Engineer, you will:
  • Be a results-oriented individual requiring minimal supervision, but willing to reach out and ask questions when needed.
  • Frequently anticipate problems and analyze ways to mitigate risk.
  • Quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
  • Work to gain credibility by acting with integrity, promoting trust and respect within the project teams and continually managing change across the affected business unit.
  • Leverage clear communication skills to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences/people.
  • Be transparent in your efforts.
  • Maintain a commitment to knowledge gain to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies.
  • Bring energy, enthusiasm, and a positive attitude.
Pictured: Par Pacific's recent acquisition of multiple Cenex Zip Trip locations extends our retail operations to Washington and Idaho, and provides an alternative outlet for Wyoming refining production.

Grow Your Skills and Make Your Mark in a Continually Evolving Environment

Serve as the Sr. System Engineer supporting a multi-state network of systems

The Senior Systems Engineer will be subject matter expert and is responsible for the optimization, administration, and protection of all back-end computing systems across multiple geographically locations and data centers. This includes but is not limited to infrastructure systems, server, backup, VMware, Citrix, cloud-based computing environments as well as any connected endpoints.

Bring new ideas and work closely with IT, external departments, and providers to design, implement, and ensure quality delivery of services. The areas of responsibilities include implement and optimize the company’s infrastructure systems, develop processes and procedures, develop dashboards and reporting mechanisms, and manage the availability, reliability, performance, monitoring, and security of the technology environment. This position will be in Houston, TX.


Par Pacific Holdings, Inc., based in Houston, Texas, owns, manages and maintains interests in energy and infrastructure businesses. Par Pacific's strategy is to identify, acquire and operate energy and infrastructure companies with attractive competitive positions. We own and operate one of the largest energy infrastructure networks in Hawaii with a 94,000-bpd refinery, a logistics network supplying the major islands of the state and 90 retail locations. In Wyoming, Par Pacific owns a refinery and associated logistics network in a niche market. Par Pacific also owns 42.3% of Laramie Energy, LLC, a joint venture entity focused on producing natural gas in Garfield, Mesa and Rio Blanco Counties, Colorado. In January 2018, Par Petroleum LLC, a subsidiary of Par Pacific Holdings Inc., entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 33 Cenex Zip Trip convenience stores in eastern Washington and northwestern Idaho from CHS Inc. The C-Stores are Par Pacific Holdings' first retail assets in the continental United States; we have more than 30 retail outlets in Hawaii. Par Pacific has an active, opportunistic growth strategy. Our common stock is publicly traded on the NYSE MKT under the trading symbol "PARR".

Note: Par Pacific will not accept calls from third-party recruiters. All candidates are required to apply through this web posting.

The Requirements

To meet the basic qualification for this role, you will have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship. In addition, to be a good fit for the Sr. System Engineer opportunity, you will have:
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field such as computer science or computer engineering; advance degree preferred. Oil and Gas industry experience a plus.
  • VCP (VMware) Required​
  • Minimum of 5 years configuring and managing VMWare Virtualization Platforms
  • Minimum of 8 years designing, configuring and managing Microsoft Server Platforms and services including Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, etc
  • Strong working knowledge and hands on experience with architecture, implementing and managing Cloud Compute platforms such as AWS and Azure
  • Provide subject matter knowledge and expertise on Microsoft Azure and/or AWS Cloud
  • Minimum 3 years’ experience with Azure and managing advanced cloud resources
  • Knowledge and experience with cloud-based architectures and delivery models
    • Exchange 2016 and Office365
    • Skype/OneDrive for Business and Teams
    • Storage/Cloud Storage
  • Security+ preferred
  • Cloud preferred
  • Citrix preferred
Top candidates also will have several of the following: Just as important will be the following competencies and characteristics:
  • Exceptional conceptual thinking and analysis skills, coupled with highly effective presentation, influencing and negotiation skills.
  • A demonstrated ability to collaborate with peers and clients.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Flexibility in concepts and action and the ability to handle aggressive mission critical deadlines.
  • The ability to:
    • Work with minimal supervision and to divide focus among many different projects.
    • Work independently, also contribute as a team player and build bridges with other internal IS teams.
    • Resolve problems professionally and systematically.
    • Multi-task and prioritize.
    • Act professionally at all times with all internal and external customers and vendors.
    Excellent collaboration skills.
  • Strong documentation abilities.
You also will need to be flexible and able to adjust your work schedule to accommodate unexpected changes and communications with stakeholders in different time zones. One week may involve typical work hours while the following week may require some evening or weekend hours. You'll also participate in an on-call rotation one to two weeks per month.

The Role

Opportunity Overview

You will work with and take direction from the IT Manager, and serve as the subject matter expert for architecture, building, implementing, testing, and troubleshooting Par enterprise systems. You'll also provide operational support for the Par Pacific infrastructure. This will include:
  • Design solutions on VMware vCenter/ESXi based on business requirements and VMware best practices
  • Expert level knowledge of VMware, Exchange, backup and storage (Nimble, EMC, Hitachi)
  • Expert level knowledge of Citrix 6.X/7.X, Windows 2003/2008/2012/2016 and Active Directory administration.
  • Experience designing, building, and maintaining complex, multi-farm Citrix environments. Core technologies used include XenApp, XenDesktop, Citrix Provisioning Services, Citrix Access Gateways and Citrix Netscalers.
  • The position will be responsible for the day-to-day administration of mission-critical services deployed using the above solutions
  • General cloud PaaS/IaaS integrations spanning multiple projects and timelines.
  • Migrating privately hosted and on-premises services to Microsoft Azure or VMWare ESXi
  • Knowledge of Cisco, HP, Dell hardware a plus.
  • Provision, install, test, support, and maintain hardware and software for server systems.
  • Automating and performing Infrastructure tasks using industry standard products.
  • This position also requires excellent written and oral communication skills. The person should be able to work independently with minimum supervision and assistance and able to adjust priorities as needed and meet deadlines.
  • Other duties as assigned Quick question for you - click here
In addition, you will lead and mentor both onshore and offshore team members in the lifecycle support of the network and associated management systems, while working with operations teams to improve system availability and efficiencies.


Pictured: One of Par Pacific's operations is the largest and most complex refinery in Hawaii, on Oahu. It's part of an integrated statewide logistics system that includes 8 terminals, 3 barges and 27 miles of pipeline.

More Good Reasons

Employee Value Proposition
Par Pacific is a growing energy company that provides more opportunity and career growth potential because of our ambition, entrepreneurial mindset, our premier market position, and our integrated business systems.

Working at Par Pacific is different. Because Par is a smaller energy company, employees have the opportunity to make a great impact on the business and to influence decisions. People truly have amazing careers at Par because they are exposed to all areas of the company and are connected to many of the industry experts. You will directly interact with key players throughout our business and have many opportunities to learn and grow your skill across platforms, as well as in various aspects of people and project management.

Excellent compensation
In addition to a competitive salary and bonus opportunity, we offer a strong comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision insurance; life and AD&D insurance; a 401(k) with company match; a robust paid-time-off and vacation benefit, retirement savings plans; employee assistance programs; gym membership allowance, and more.

Professional growth with a strong mentor
You'll enjoy the autonomy to excel alongside strong mentorship and support from your supervisor. He'll help you succeed today and set yourself up for further success in the future. Additionally, you will work alongside a 3rd-party consultant when you first join us, who will help you learn our processes and equipment.

Unique Culture
There is nothing ordinary about Par Pacific -- an unorthodox niche player in the energy space that drives operations from production-to-delivery. And there's certainly nothing ordinary about Par Pacific people. If you're at Par, you're a driven, creative-thinking, hardworking, entrepreneur-minded professional that loves to win. If that describes you, you'll fit right in!

Great Team
We have a relatively new and growing team of energetic people helping to build out IT. We have developed positive relationships with each other, and the whole team is ready to help each other rise. On the other hand, we all take ownership of our responsibilities and maintain a commitment to meeting goals and objectives. The environment is both collegial and productive.

Location, location, location
Because Par Pacific is located in some of the most beautiful places throughout the country, our employees get to make these places their home and enrich their lives. The office where you'll work is located in the Memorial City area of Houston, near the Memorial City Mall. It's a vibrant area of the city with plenty of places for lunch or to wind down after work. We also have lots of free parking.

Opportunistic growth strategy
At Par Pacific, we look for operations with strong fundamentals and great employees who can move a business forward. Our management team has deep experience in the energy industry, as well as in leading mergers, acquisitions, and integrations of newly acquired companies. Ongoing acquisitions create new and interesting challenges for the IT team.

Award-winning impact
We are making an award-winning impact on the Oil & Gas Market. In fact, the Houston Chronicle ranked Par Pacific as #8 on the annual Chronicle 100 list of top performing companies powering Houston's economy in 2017! Companies were ranked by performance criteria reflecting stock performance, revenue growth and total revenue.

Pictured: Par Pacific's Wyoming operations are capable of producing 18,000 barrels per day, with a logistics network that includes 140 miles of crude oil gathering systems, 40 miles of refined product pipeline and approximately 600,000 barrels of storage capacity.

Keys to Success

To fit our team and culture, you'll have a casual and easy-going personality along with a strong work ethic. You should be willing to dive in and help at any time, and take pride in meeting deadlines and providing top-quality work. Within a few months, you should have established a reputation as a team player who is dependable and trustworthy.

In addition, to be an outstanding Sr. System Engineer, you will:
  • Be a results-oriented individual requiring minimal supervision, but willing to reach out and ask questions when needed.
  • Frequently anticipate problems and analyze ways to mitigate risk.
  • Quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
  • Work to gain credibility by acting with integrity, promoting trust and respect within the project teams and continually managing change across the affected business unit.
  • Leverage clear communication skills to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences/people.
  • Be transparent in your efforts.
  • Maintain a commitment to knowledge gain to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies.
  • Bring energy, enthusiasm, and a positive attitude.
Pictured: Par Pacific's recent acquisition of multiple Cenex Zip Trip locations extends our retail operations to Washington and Idaho, and provides an alternative outlet for Wyoming refining production.
Par Pacific is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career center as a result of your disability. To request an accommodation, contact the Human Resources Department at lljoseph@engage2excel.com.
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