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Senior System Engineer (AWS, Linux)

Date Posted: 5/14/2024

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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

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Job Snapshot

  • Employee Type:Full-Time
  • Location:La Mirada, CA
  • Job Type:I.T.
  • Experience:None
  • Education:None
  • Date Posted:5/14/2024
  • Contact: Blair West (714) 587-3445
  • Pay Range: $140,000.00 - $160,000.00 Annually
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Job Reference: JN -052024-367218