Sr Systems Engineer (Linux)

At Atmos Energy, we enjoy an employee-focused culture with rewarding work, competitive pay, work-life balance, inclusion and diversity, and excellent benefits. Benefits offered include:

• Medical & Prescription Drug Coverage• 401K/Retirement Savings Plan• Dental Insurance• Vision Insurance• Basic Life Insurance• Short- and Long-Term Disability• Employee Assistance Program• Company Holidays & Paid Time Off• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)• Health Savings Account (HSA)• Educational Assistance• LifeLock Identity Theft Protection• Paid Training• LinkedIn Learning

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Best Place to Learn - Dallas Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)

Top 50 North American CandE Awards - Talent Board

THIS JOB DESCRIPTION DOES NOT ATTEMPT TO LIST ALL OF THE DUTIES THAT ARE OR MAY BE PERFORMED IN THIS POSITION

Primary Duties

1. Designs, integrates, enhances, and secures the server, storage, network, virtualization, compliance, process automation, and application software infrastructure and associated administration and maintenance plans across a complex stack of on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud infrastructures, ensuring industry-best practices and changing demands are achieved.

2. Assists, mentors, and provides technical direction, leadership, guidance, and support for Systems Engineers and other IT staff.

3. Provides direction and guidance for technical information collection, planning, analyses, and standards development for the administration and maintenance processes and prioritizations for the enterprise infrastructure.

4. Analyzes, forecasts, and presents to IT management reports on enterprise infrastructure capacity and performance for regular reviews ensuring level agreements are achieved.

5. Creates and approves technical document libraries and presentation of technical documentation that provides IT staff and management the details of the enterprise infrastructure in adherence to cyber security, regulatory, and Enterprise Architectural standards.

6. Reviews and guides research of technical information relating to changes in Information Technology-related disciplines, regulations, trends, cyber security, and infrastructure management. Provides recommendations for changes or enhancements to IT management and Enterprise Architecture.

7. Develops and manages execution and reporting of results of all scheduled disaster recovery implementations, maintenance and testing activities ensuring that the applications meet RPO/RTO, cyber security, and regulatory requirements.

8. Reviews and approves development, organization, scheduling and presentation of formal/informal training and documentation regarding enterprise infrastructure processes and procedures.

9. Maintains a working relationship with outside organizations, partners, and other resources to enhance the IT infrastructure and ensure the infrastructure meets service level agreements and changing demands.

10. Organizes and directs the efforts of internal IT staff or external technical or vendor support teams to provide the highest levels of design, integration, implementation support, and problem resolution activities.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Educational/Experience Level

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely related field and four years of experience in computer programming and operating systems analysis; or equivalent.

Communication Skills

Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers in order to obtain and/or provide explanations and/or information on technical concepts to individuals.

Numeric Skills

Requires the ability to perform analyses involving ratios, percentages, and simple statistical methods.

Computer Skills

Requires a high level of computer skills to use various software packages as well as a familiarity with hardware configurations to perform systems administration.

Physical Demands

1. Ability to lift 47 pounds from the ground to 5 inches. (Ex: lifting equipment) 2. Ability to lift 25 pounds from 56 inches to 72 inches. (Ex: lifting servers and equipment) 3. Ability to lift 25 pounds from the ground to 57 inches. (Ex: lifting batteries and equipment) 4. Ability to lift and carry 20 pounds. (Ex: lifting and carrying ladder) 5. Ability to ascend/descend 8 rungs on a ladder. 6. Ability to bend, stoop, squat, kneel, and/or crouch. 7. Ability to generate 35-foot pounds of upward force. (Ex. lifting floor tiles)

Work Conditions

Works in an office environment.

Requires occasionally performing activities including, but not limited to, bending, stooping, grasping, reaching, twisting, turning and/or lifting.

Atmos Energy Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Job Family:

Infrastructure