Senior Engineer Systems Engineering

Job Description

Job Purpose

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Systems Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will work alongside other engineers on multiple items - projects, operations, and on-call duties. You are required to have a good understanding of systems architecture and design, strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, and excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Managing and monitoring all systems and infrastructure
• Installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining operating systems, application software and system management tools across several Windows VMs
• Understand application workflows to assist with performance issues and propose solutions to ensure highest levels of availability
• Identify and automate operational tasks
• Patch management on Windows and Linux
• Participate in an on-call rotation.
• Create and maintain documentation of the infrastructure and configurations
• Assist in the design, planning and implementation of server solutions
• Tune and design systems infrastructure for maximum available performance
• Automation of manual tasks using scripting and application development
• Investigate and adopt new technologies/tools as needs arise as well as implement said tools quickly and efficiently
• Evaluate, test, and integrate new operating system versions, drivers, and patches
• Provide technical analysis, resolve problems, and propose solutions
• Provide support to and coordinate with Developers, Operations staff, and End-Users
• Provide education and/or mentorship where needed to Teammates, Operations, Development and QA
• Ensure streamlined application deployments
  
  

• 8+ years building and managing infrastructure systems
• Experience with virtualization
• Working experience in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Windows based systems, Linux a plus
• Previous scripting experience is required - PowerShell, Python etc.
• Experience with Configuration Management tools like Ansible, Puppet etc.
• Must be a self-starter
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to communicate and effectively collaborate with internal departments and other outside parties in a professional manner
• Working knowledge of git, Jenkins or equivalent
• Working knowledge of horizontal and vertical scaling for performance and high availability
• Top-tier analytics and problem solving
• Organization, and time management skills