Systems Engineer - Tek Ninjas

Role: Systems Engineer

Location: St. Paul, MN - hybridWinning Skillset/Profile:

1. Someone who can take on enterprise applications or third party product implementations
2. Examples of products they’ll work on: Managed file transfer,  controlM, or Enterprise ScheduleIaC: pipeline work w/ cloudformation or Terraform
3. Systems Engineering background (Linux or UNIX)
4. AWS functions

 

 

Position Summary:

The Server and Storage Infrastructure team is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining compute, storage, backup, and additional shared infrastructure technologies to support Securian’s business applications and processes.  Team efforts are predominantly cloud focused as we are actively migrating our data center infrastructure to cloud platforms and hosted services.  Specific technologies supported by the team include enterprise file services, backup, workload automation (batch scheduler), Managed File Transfer, Active Directory, and engineering of Linux and Windows server operating system images.  Team responsibilities also include partnering with managed services in supporting hosted Mainframe, iSeries, and private cloud platforms as well as support for several technologies that will be retired as we complete our migration such as virtual server infrastructure and Storage Area Network.

 

Team responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Engineer Infrastructure technology

• Design, create, and deploy solutions for Securian’s applications running on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) using industry best practices
• Implement and manage server and infrastructure applications through the use of IaC.
• Lead or execute the engineering and implementation of upgrades, patches or enhancements.
• Lead or perform technical proofs-of-concept, pilots and validations.
• Ensure security, compliance, governance, and audit requirements and best practices are met
• Perform research and plan future state for new or enhanced solutions.
• Support Infrastructure technology
• Respond to and resolve escalated incidents and problems.
• Ensure availability, capacity, performance, and resiliency meet service level objectives.
• On a rotational basis, provide off-hour support for critical issues.
• Develop, automate, execute and continually improve processes to support the use of IT solutions.