Workplace Type: Hybrid (1 week out of the month onsite)
Location: La Mirada, CA
Industry: IT Services / Manager Services Provider
Compensation: $125,000 - $160,000
SUMMARY:
The Senior Systems Engineer designs, builds, implements, and supports elegant systems and systems infrastructure solutions to advance organizational goals and objectives. The position provides advanced-level technical expertise, as well as escalation support, for all managed systems, infrastructure, and services.
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 organization's hosted VoIP environment for local and remote users
Assist leadership in defining and enforcing organizational policies related Systems and Tools
REQUIRMENTS, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE (TECHNICAL):
BA/BS degree in computer science or equivalent work experience
5+ years of experience and demonstrable success with designing, maintaining and implementing complex systems environments
Experience administering DNS in a multi-domain environment
Experience administering common infrastructure applications (i.e., DHCP servers, web servers, email servers, mailing list servers, etc.)
Hands-on systems administration experience in a multi-vendor, multi-OS environment (i.e., Linux/RHEL, Windows, OS X, AWS., Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Elastic)
Understanding of scalability, redundancy, and failover in architecture design and implementation
Strong familiarity with TCP/IP networking - preferred
In-depth experience on Linux systems, including CentOS and Red Hat Linux virtualization methods - preferred
Experience administering and maintain containerization technologies such as Kubernetes or similar - preferred
Experience with programming and/or building systems and network automation tools using Perl, Python, Ansible, and Shell scripting - preferred
Experience with Gitlab and DevOps methodologies - preferred
Experience with ELK stack - preferred
Experience implementing, managing, and maintaining Cloud technolog
