Sr IT Systems Engineer

Senior IT Systems Engineer

Jacksonville, Florida

Job Duties:

• Installing, configuring, operating, and maintaining systems, hardware and software, and related infrastructure;
• Providing engineering, operations and support, maintenance and research, and development for Linux and Windows systems that support GateWay infrastructure;
• Performing technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure;
• Ensuring system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational values;
• Facilitating and initiating the install and configuration of systems to support Gateway processing, including installing new or rebuilds of existing servers and configuring hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, and storage;
• Performing daily system and security monitoring;
• Verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes;
• Reviewing system and application logs;
• Verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups;
• Assisting project teams with technical issues in the Initiation and Planning phases of standard Project Management Methodology;
• Monitoring, installing, configuring, testing, administering, troubleshooting and maintaining of assigned technology;
• Providing technical support and troubleshooting problems;
• Performing migration;
• Participating in capacity planning;
• Driving and implementing automation enhancements and process improvement efforts;
• Writing programming/scripting;
• Contributing input into infrastructure architecture and ensures infrastructure architecture is implemented as intended;
• Ensuring execution and alignment to architectural standards and blueprints;
• Working on multiple complex systems and applications;
• Managing system and application environments and ongoing operations;
• Ensuring that technologies are updated with current, stable, and compliant architecture and systems and applications meet enterprise standards;
• Monitoring and reporting performance utilization of assigned technologies;
• Troubleshooting software and hardware issues and failures;
• Resolving alerts and performing remediation activities;
• Managing problems, escalated tickets, tasks and out of cycle requests from systems and software owners;
• Collecting and presenting data for reporting and planning;
• Determining best tactical and long-term solution;
• Diagnosing and resolving complex technology and system/application errors; implementing process and automation improvements;
• Monitoring and identifying broader, more complex issues across multiple, integrated, connected technologies and communicating as appropriate;
• Participating in Disaster Recovery planning and exercises;
• Performing on-call activities as needed for the environment and technologies;
• Leading initiatives and overseeing work results; and
• Providing training and serving as a technical resource for other Systems Engineers.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in any Computer or Engineering field and 5 or more years of progressive work experience in the job offered, or in a systems engineer or related role or a Master's Degree in any Computer or Engineering field and 3 or more years of work experience in the job offered, or in a systems engineer or related role
• Experience with Java
• Experience with SQL programming
• Experience with installation, configuration and administration of CA Single Sign-On
• Experience with LDAP and X.500 directory services
• Experience with implementing SSO using SAML
• Experience with Groovy

• Experience with DB2, MS SQL, and Oracle databases
• Experience with HTML5 and CSS
• Experience with JDBC
• Experience with distributed systems and server architectures
• Experience with IBM DataPower Gateways
• Experience with installation and configuration of DataPower Appliances
• Experience using multi-protocol gateway to support message types with different protocols and integrations with MQ
• Experience with Splunk
• Experience with Linux and Windows Systems
• Experience with Project Management Methodologies
• Experience with EDI and HL7 formats
• Experience with Edifecs XE Server
• Experience with Shell Scripting
• Experience with Jenkins
• Experience with GIT HUB
• Experience with SharePoint, C#.net, and Jira

Qualified applicants may apply with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc. by visiting www.floridablue.com.

Qualified applicants may apply with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc. by visiting www.floridablue.com.

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