Systems Engineer - Randstad USA

job summary:

Come join Georgia's best place to work! Candidate must have a high level of knowledge and over 7 years of experience with BIG IP, Certificate Management, Azure Cloud, and VM Ware. This is a 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. The initial contract is 3 months, with the potential to be extended.

 
location: Dalton, Georgia
job type: Contract
salary: $68 - 86 per hour
work hours: 8am to 4pm
education: Bachelors
 
responsibilities:

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 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 Goals

Provide technical advice and assistance to 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 componentsDistributed

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 includeFoundational
  
  

  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 Discover and describe the issues, patterns, and opportunities that u