Sr. Systems Engineer
Job Description: The Senior Systems Engineer works as part of a team responsible for the design of the system architecture, server infrastructure management, and advanced technical support. He/She also provides technical leadership required to effectively deliver high-quality, timely IT solutions and services.
The role is a part of a high performing team in a fast-paced organization, requiring partner and business focus. As well as demonstrated skills tied to leadership, people, communication, analytics and adaptability.
Qualifications
What a Senior Systems Engineer does:
- Provides effective solutions to the most difficult operations engineering problems
- Long term thinking with respect to major design and technology choices
- Operate with complex reporting relationships to reconcile competing priorities and achieve business unit objectives
- Communicates at an expert level via documentation and verbally with both peers and partners
- Collaborates with architects across functions to help set architectural direction for delivering highly reliable, scalable, and operable solutions
- Partners with development teams, DBAs and QA in a DevOps model of agile development process
- Demonstrates entrepreneurial perspective in the ideation and implementation of products and services to accelerate growth
- Transforms business ideas into implementable technology solutions, considering build, buy and partnering alternatives
- Make decisions which may have a broad impact and influence the organizational direction
- Rapidly adapt to new and changing situations to quickly solve problems and find new directions
- Drives continuous improvement through change management procedures - designing, definition of roadmaps, standardization of processes and methodologies
- Periodic rotational 24 hours on call support
The Senior Systems Engineer needs:
- Experience designing highly available solutions at scale with security and performance
- Experience with automation and configuration management tools (Preferred: Chef and/or Puppet)
- Experience with public cloud services and deployment (Preferred: AWS, GCP, or Azure experience)
- Strong development experience in programming/scripting languages (Preferred: Go, Python, and/or Ruby)
- Knowledge of the software development lifecycle and experience with source code management tools
- Strong ability to troubleshoot complex issues ranging from system resources to application stack traces
- Strong hands-on experience in building and maintaining infrastructure for micro services
- Experience with Continuous Integration, continuous delivery/deployment tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, or similar
- Strong knowledge of UNIX
- Experience integrating Open Source tools and software
- Experience with TCP/IP, routing, VLANS, AWS Direct Connect, VPN and other networking concepts
- Experience with VMWare, Vagrant, Docker, or Rocket is a definite plus
- Experience with monitoring tools like NewRelic, Zabbix, Nagios or similar
- Excellent DNS, LDAP, syslog and network service experience
- Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in highly complex systems and drive performance optimizations
- Working knowledge of enterprise storage technologies and protocols such as NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, Software Defined Storage, Object Storage
- OBSESSIVE desire to automate and improve everything including process improvements, standardizing tools and technologies!
Required Soft Skills:
- Complete ownership and managing the life cycle of end-to-end solutions
- Peer and partner relationship focused
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced team environment
- Ability to learn new skills/technologies quickly and independently
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Independent problem-solving skills
CANDIDATE DETAILS
Minimum Education - Bachelor's Degree
Willingness to Travel - Occasionally
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.