Systems Engineer - Expert In Recruitment Solutions
Dalton, GA 30339
About the Job
Systems Engineer #
Duration: 3 months with extension possible (Contract)
Location: Dalton, GA (prefer local but will accept those who will relocate immediately)
Job Description:
Essential Duties:
Additional responsibilities may include
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Minimum Qualifications:
Basic skills
Preferred Qualifications:
Duration: 3 months with extension possible (Contract)
Location: Dalton, GA (prefer local but will accept those who will relocate immediately)
Job Description:
- All Candidates must have a high level of knowledge of BIG IP, Certificate Management, Azure Cloud, and VM Ware.
- Hybrid role – must be local to Dalton and the surrounding area. Must be able to work an on-call rotation, 2 weeks on-call every 12 weeks.
Essential Duties:
- This position requires thought leadership, technical skills, and organizational influence.
- Maintain Infrastructure – Support current CX & AX infrastructure environments
- Produce and maintain proactive designs and plans that prioritize IT operational improvements
- Maintain and optimize system options and configurations to include ongoing upgrades
- Develop and execute performance analysis designs and plans
- Project Support – Support improvements to our CX and AX initiatives
- Participate regularly in business-oriented and technical projects, task forces, and status meetings, and become involved in business strategy discussions as early as possible
- Support development teams during application development, quality assurance, user acceptance, staging and production
- Provide architecture recommendations, debugging and problem-resolution assistance to the Infrastructure and Application development teams
- Assist with research, testing, certification, and communication of new technology, services, applications, and utilities for platform technologies
- Leading project development and coordination for specific technical projects.
- Resiliency Support – Support the resiliency of the systems environments:
- Maintain ongoing operational readiness to ensure ongoing infrastructure support
- Perform troubleshooting and diagnostic tracing of running applications
- Assist with instrumentation and observability functions by creating, configuring, and leveraging templates to proactively monitor and alert on system issues
- Assist Level One and Level Two support to ensure knowledgebase, processes, and procedures are kept up to date
- Provide scripting, workflows, and automation for the infrastructure environments
- Manage incident identification, determination, isolation, and resolution
- Design and build out strategies for support of emerging technologies
- Preparation – Plan and execute according to documented guidelines
- Perform all activities within the established plans and schedules
- Ensure documented management approval is secured prior to making any changes to a production environment
- Maintain current knowledge and skill levels appropriate to our Goals
- Provide technical advice and assistance to our personnel
- Follow the department's Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulatory compliance requirements and follow all testing and verification guidelines
- Configuration and Provisioning - Install, configure, deploy, migrate, maintain, patch and decommission infrastructure components
- Distributed
- Cloud (eg, Azure, AWS, GCP)
- Servers (eg, Linux, Windows, Unix)
- Instrumentation/Observability software (eg, Foglight, Solarwinds, Azure Monitor)
- Successfully install, configure, and manage the Linux & Windows Operating Systems, including system patching, version updates, and daily maintenance needs
- Successfully install, configure, and manage cloud solutions (VMs, PAAS, data entities and other solutions) to satisfy application needs
- Successfully install, configure, and manage Application servers (Eg: Tomcat, JBoss, IIS)
- Successfully install, configure, and manage Container environments
- Create scripting to automate common tasks with languages such as PowerShell, python, Bash etc
- Security (eg, Azure Sentinel, Azure Defender)
- Documentation review and technical guidance on provisioning and configuration activities.
Additional responsibilities may include
- Foundational
- Encourage, recognize, and support each team member's contributions and the team's joint results
- Project a genuine sense of enthusiasm regarding project goals and progress
- Collaborate with IT application teams on changes, requests, and incidents
- Communicate regularly on the status of delivering on a commitment
- Client and describe the issues, patterns, and opportunities that underlie the stated problems
- Effectively prioritize activities, manage time, and honor commitments
- Identify and gather needed facts and requirements regarding the business and systems from available sources and direct observation
- Create scripting to automate common tasks with languages such as PowerShell, python, TSQL etc
- Write and publish concise, action-oriented documents and presentations
- Transform observations into patterns, conclusions, and recommendations summarizing benefits, costs, and risks
- Generate alternative solutions and evaluate them according to established criteria
- Conduct meetings (eg, one-on-one interviews, group presentations, facilitated sessions, and project reviews)
- Build effective business and IS relationships (win/win agreements)
- Manage expectations regularly via documented agreements and revisions
- Assemble the right mix of people to accomplish defined objectives
- Understand, respect, and capitalize on the varying expertise and roles contributed by each team member
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Minimum Qualifications:
- BA / BS degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, or equivalent practical experience
- Relevant experience in a Fortune-500-scale, IT-related department seven years
- Demonstrated experience serving in a system administration, system engineering, or database administration role.
Basic skills
- Understanding of global networking and protocols
- Understanding of ITIL Incident, Problem, Change, and Service Request Management procedures
- Understanding of scripting, reporting and monitoring
- Understanding of system administration with an operating system or database administration background
- Understanding of system engineering, design, and security with an operating system or database administration background
- Experience developing knowledgebase articles and procedural documentation for effective communication to other organizational units
- Understanding of business continuity planning
- Distributed Systems
- Compute administration or engineering with a Unix/Linux, Windows, and/or VMWare background
- Knowledge and experience with Azure Cloud architectures
- Understanding of other Cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Hybrid Cloud)
- Knowledge of database systems (DB2, SQL, Postgres etc)
- Knowledge of storage area network environment
- Knowledge of Local area and wide area networks (LAN/WAN)
- Demonstrated knowledge of TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, etc
- Understanding of programming languages (Powershell, Bash, Python)
- Demonstrated knowledge of operating systems (e.g., Windows, Linux)
- Demonstrated knowledge of .NET, Java
- Demonstrated knowledge in supporting large scale application and Operating System patches and upgrades using Azure Update Management, SCCM
- Demonstrated knowledge of Directory Services Software (LDAP, Microsoft Active Directory)
- Demonstrated knowledge of JEE technology (Tomcat, JBOSS)
- Demonstrated knowledge of Messaging Technology (MQ, Kafka, JMS)
- Demonstrated knowledge of Software distribution
- Experience with instrumentation tools such as Azure Monitor, Datadog, Moogsoft, New Relic, Splunk, and Tableau for web application, performance, and network monitoring
- Demonstrated knowledge of Certificate Management
- Demonstrated knowledge of AKS, Arc, HCI, Monitor, SCCM
- Demonstrated knowledge of cloud-native microservice patterns
- Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory, AAD, SSO, and other security practices and tools
Preferred Qualifications:
- Passion for the "everything as code," "automate everything," "security first," and "data beats opinions"
- Show a strong desire to learn and grow in an ever-evolving space with new technologies
- Acts as an integral member of the team
- Possesses good organizational skills and time-management skills
- Sets challenging goals and works diligently to achieve or surpass them
- Acts as an integral member of the team
- Possesses good organizational skills and time-management skills
- Sets challenging goals and works diligently to achieve or surpass them
- Manages competing demands in a stressful environmentManages competing demands in a stressful environmentExperience in a global operating environment
- Thorough understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Maintain a working knowledge of Data Center procedures and schedules
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as code concepts and languages such as Terraform
- Possesses above-average problem-solving skills
- Be an empowered self-starter that demonstrates the independent initiative to Client and ensure the evaluation of business and technical opportunities
- Knowledge of software design patterns
- Experience includes Azure Sentinel
- Analyze and document problems and requirements that are understandable at all levels
- Communicates, both (verbally and in writing), with people at all levels of the corporation clearly and concisely
- Possesses excellent work habits, including the ability to work well with others
- Takes initiative, keeps promises, honors commitments, and takes responsibility for own actions or mistakes
- Promotes change as necessary in a continually improving organization; is enthusiastic and optimistic in the face of change
- Ability to plan, schedule, and implement projects on time
- Maintain a healthy sense of urgency, balancing the need to achieve short-term tactical results with the importance of strategic planning for long-term flexibility
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