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 one week of the 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