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

Knowledge and Experience

• 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