Sr. Systems Engineer

Overview

Senior Systems Engineer

The ideal candidate will have deep experience in enterprise infrastructure, be self-driven, and capable of independently leading projects from concept to completion. In addition to maintaining existing systems, this role will focus on modernizing and automating infrastructure to improve scalability and performance.

This is a global role that requires collaboration across time zones and includes participation in a 24x7 support rotation with occasional on-call responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage hardware (including gray market systems) in enterprise data centers with assistance from on-site personnel.
• Design, implement, and migrate to modern private cloud infrastructure.
• Establish and maintain configuration management using Foreman, Puppet Enterprise, and Ansible for Linux environments.
• Enhance automated build and deployment pipelines for physical and virtual machines.
• Create configuration roles and automation code using tools like Ansible and Puppet.
• Develop scripts to automate daily tasks for the Systems Engineering team.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting for hardware, Linux, and Windows systems in large-scale environments.
• Lead and plan infrastructure projects independently.
• Provide subject matter expertise in designated technical areas; contribute to technical discussions and architecture decisions.
• Advise on data center best practices, including power configuration, HVAC, and rack design.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of Linux/Unix administration (Solaris, AIX, or other flavors)
• 3+ years of OpenStack engineering and administration
• 5+ years of VMWare or equivalent Engineering and Administration
• 5+ years of scripting experience with Bash, Perl, Ruby, Python, etc.
• 35 years of experience with system monitoring tools (Check_MK, Nagios, SolarWinds)
• 35 years of hands-on hardware management (Dell, SuperMicro, HP)
• 23 years of experience with Puppet for configuration management
• 5+ years of experience using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams)

Preferred Qualifications

• 12 years of storage administration (EMC, NetApp, 3PAR, Hitachi)
• 12 years of experience with F5 load balancers
• 24 years of public or hybrid cloud experience (AWS, Azure, Rackspace)
• 23 years of application development experience (Java, C++, C#/VB.NET, PHP, HTML, JavaScript)
• 12 years of CI/CD experience (Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.)
• 2+ years with Ansible AWX or Tower

Candidate Profile

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Skilled at mentoring and leading technical discussions (including whiteboarding sessions)
• Excellent documentation skills, particularly using wikis and diagramming tools like Visio or Lucidchart
• Ability to take direction while also contributing ideas for environment improvements
• Bachelors degree in computer science or a related field (or equivalent experience)