Senior Systems Engineer - Linux

Objectives/Responsibilities:

• As a System Engineer, you will be analyzing, configuring, installing, upgrading, monitoring, maintaining, troubleshooting, patching, compiling, securing, and repairing of Linux servers in a heterogeneous environment.
• The SE will also be responsible for all operations and working in a team environment with other talented engineers.
• The candidate will work as part of the engineering team, exhibit excellent customer service skills at all times, act as the central point of contact for all Linux related activities and seek ways to improve the environment.
• Provide technical expertise in the areas of system design, installation, configuration, tuning, capacity planning, troubleshooting and problem resolution.
• Provide technical guidance and maintain operations standards.
• Participate as necessary in the validation matrix role to independently test and validate solutions to ensure fulfillment of all business requirements, compliance of regulations and quality of solutions.
• Build, deploy, manage, and maintain new and existing infrastructure systems.
• Monitor and analyze data center infrastructure resources and system applications.
• Implement and maintain backups redundancy strategies.
• Responsible for the security of the managed infrastructure systems 
• Responsible for collaborating and defining policies, procedures, and technical documentation including reports, design, maintenance, operational, and support procedures.
• Responsible for the on-going development of automation strategies.
• Engage with upper management and stakeholders with requirements, status reports, activity summaries, and achievements.

Daily & Monthly Responsibilities:

• Communicate with stakeholders to identify their needs and visions.
• Use expert-level administration and optimization of hosts and servers to ensure high availability and resource management.
• Standardize and automate processes and monitoring using scripting and advance technologies offered by the data center.
• Install and configure operating systems, software, and hardware components, and clearly document the design, maintenance, and support procedures for routine tasks to leverage IT support staff. 
• Routinely test software for bugs, redundancies, and security issues. 
• Conduct high-level root-cause analysis for service interruption and establish preventive measures. 
• Create reports and documentation out-lining findings and solution; oversee the overall backup strategy and daily operations for secure backups and restore testing. 

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in technology or computer science and at least 7 years of industry experience.
• Strong interpersonal, written, oral communication skills.
• Strong time-management and priority management skills.
• Strong RHEL/Linux/Unix background.
• Scripting experience (Shell/Perl/Python, or related language).
• Strong understanding of network protocols and principles (OSI network layers, TCP/IP).
• Experience with designing/managing virtual infrastructures (VMWare/Nutanix/Hyper-V).
• Strong reasoning, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills.
• Expertise in creating, analyzing, and maintaining large-scale infrastructure deployments.
• Experience with private-cloud backup and recovery.

Desired:

• Proven ability to think outside-of-the-box.
• Technical documentation skills 
• Familiar with HA environments 
• Infrastructure migration experience 
• RedHat Satellite
• Cloudwatch (ECS, EC2, Cloud Formation), and knowledge of data storage
• Configuration Management (CM) experience (Ansible/Puppet/Chef) 
• Familiar with Containers (Docker/Kubernetes) 
• Experience with AWS technologies such as S3, EMR/EC2 (or equivalent).
• API scripting
• Citrix (ADC/ADM/Storefront)
• Splunk, BigFix, Forescout
• Database management (MSSQL/MySQL/PostgreSQL)
• Familiar with the ELK Stack with emphasis on Elastic Search