Sr. Systems Engineer (Linux/RHEL, AWS)
Roth Staffing Companies

Sr. Systems Engineer (Linux/RHEL, AWS)

Employment Type: Full-Time / Direct Hire

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

• 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