Job Description
We prefer contract to hire but would be open to be direct hire candidate. This position requires to be 100% on site in La mirada during training for the first few weeks, after that will be remote, and will need to be on site once a month in La Mirada.
The Senior Systems Engineer designs, builds, implements, and supports elegant systems and systems infrastructure solutions to advance company's organizational goals and objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Handle all aspects of systems deployment projects with a focus on systems infrastructure, including initiating purchase requests, developing implementation plans, defining methods of procedure (MOP), and executing work
- Participate in on-call rotation for escalation support of technical issues, supporting the 24x7x365 production environment
- Develop life-cycle plans for building and scaling services, updating the systems infrastructure, and retiring legacy solutions
- Develop and maintain technical documentation and procedures
- Establish and recommend systems infrastructure policies and standards for the team and organization
- Develop monitoring and trending systems to predict capacity issues within the systems infrastructure
- Mentor junior team members, providing technical & procedural guidance, and cultivating a culture of knowledge transfer within the team
- Track and work requests via ticketing system; perform triage and provide resolution for both internal and external customers
- Deploy and support hardware and software for workstations and servers, including troubleshooting, component replacement, auxiliary/peripheral installation, and software installation
- Audit and deploy OS, application security, and feature updates on equipment managed by Systems
- Monitor performance, security, and availability of the server environment. Recommend improvements in technologies and practices to increase these metrics
- Support the organizational's hosted VoIP environment for local and remote users
- Assist leadership in defining and enforcing organizational policies related to Systems and Tools
Preference will be given to candidates with the following:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience
- Proven experience and demonstrable success with designing, maintaining and implementing complex systems environments
- Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a dynamic environment and balance multiple projects in order to complete them successfully and within timelines
- Strong interpersonal skills, with focus on high quality customer service
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience administering DNS in a multi-domain environment
- Experience administering common infrastructure applications (e.g.,DHCP servers, web servers, email servers, mailing list servers, etc.)
- Experience with Container administration like Kubernetes or similar
- Hands-on systems administration experience in a multi-vendor, multi-OS environment (Linux, Windows, OS X, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Elastic)
- Experience with CentOS and Red Hat Linux virtualization methods
- Understanding of scalability, redundancy, and failover in architecture design and implementation
- Strong familiarity with TCP/IP networking preferred
- In-depth experience on Linux systems preferred
- Experience with programming and/or building systems and network automation tools using Perl, Python, PHP, Ansible and shell scripting preferred
- Experience with Gitlab and Devops methodologies preferred
- Experience with ELK stack preferred
- Cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, Terraform, HashiCorp Vault, Google workspace
To apply please email your resume to ywest@ledgent.com