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IT SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER
Job Overview
The Senior Systems Engineer position is a member of the Infrastructure Team within the Information Technology Group of the Division.
The function of the role is to provide Windows and Linux systems administration and support for business systems projects, infrastructure and development. The role will be focused on automation, building for scale, and fault tolerant systems. This role will also focus on technologies such as VMWare, SAN/NAS, SCCM, scripting tools and other technologies.
This is a challenging and progressive team environment with an opportunity to work alongside infrastructure engineers and architects at multiple levels of the enterprise.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Partners with the IT engineering, infrastructure, security and project management teams to help implement new systems that are scalable and highly resilient.
- Develops automation tools and processes to help scale operations.
- Responsible for disaster recovery testing and restoration of critical services during DR events.
- Provides systems and services expertise and drive operational best practices.
- Participates in capacity and scalability planning.
- Researches, develops, and implements new technologies and practices.
- Leverages or builds appropriate technical tools to perform administration tasks, root-cause analysis and service restoration (such as back up, restore, failover, log interpretation, and performance monitoring.
- Manages server patching and updating best practice, GPO development/administration, and server and desktop image inventory and optimization
- Develops and maintains positive and cooperative relationships, inside and outside of teams, interacting in a friendly, open, honest, and accepting manner.
- Mentors junior systems administrators.
- Ensures 24/7 availability of the production servers and applications within a team environment.
- Resolves Tier 3 incidents and requests. Requires on-call availability on team rotation outside of normal business hours.
- Works to develop internal SOPs and Service handbooks for key systems and services.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Required Skills
Required Experience
Required Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in Science or Engineering Discipline, or relevant experience.
- 5+ years of experience with supporting Windows infrastructure, systems administration, as well as hardware and software troubleshooting.
- Solid understanding of Microsoft Windows systems administration.
- Experience with SCCM, Chef, or other configuration management tools.
- Experience with VMware platform virtualization technologies.
- Experience with DNS and DHCP technologies.
- Experience with PowerShell.
- Experience with system performance monitoring & fine-tuning.
- Experience with backup technologies.
- Proven technical experience and a solid foundation in operating systems.
- Strong work ethic and have a natural tendency to take ownership of incidents & requests.
- Good team communication skills, with technical and non-technical colleagues.
Highly Desired Skills
- Experience with Azure and AWS IaaS and PaaS.
- Experience working with SAN/NAS storage environments.
- Experience with ServiceNow.
- Experience in programming languages (C#, Perl, Python a plus).
- ITIL certification or working knowledge.
- Additional advanced certifications (i.e. Microsoft, VMWare, etc.).
- Experience with Linux system administration such as Red Hat / CentOS a plus.
- Experience in MS SQL environments a plus.
Additional Abilities
- Attention to detail, and a drive to be successful; ability to work independently with minimal supervision or assistance.
- Experience writing detailed and clear procedures and documentations that are easy to follow.
- Strong problem solving skills, innovation, collaboration, analysis.