System Engineer - Unix

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This position will require 24x7 coverage and response to systems alerts during 'on-call' periods. The Systems Engineer must be receptive to management coaching to increase his/her individual and team’s effectiveness.

Position is focused on supporting our UNIX and VMWare Systems infrastructure, Focusing on RHEL and VMWare.

Responsibilities:

• Be a strong contributor to the UNIX IT operations team – develop short term tactical plans to address issues and problems.
• Be familiar with *NIX operations running on virtual infrastructure.
• Help resolve complex IT issues;
• Maintain systems patch levels proactively;
• Demonstrate enterprise compliance to standards with objectively using metrics;
• Respond to and remediate systems incidents;
• Configure systems and tools to automate manual tasks through scripting and scheduling;
• Make use of command scripting and scheduling to reduce errors;
• Ensure enterprise changes are tracked and controlled Document standards, best practices and policies for Linux/Solaris server platforms;
• Field escalated support requests from groups including: Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, Infrastructure Operations, IT NOC, Desktop Support, Techforce, Information Security, Data Warehouse, Application Support, Tech Operations and other.

Required skills and experience:

• This position requires someone who is smart, learns quickly, hardworking and thrives in a fast paced team environment;
• Requires a Bachelor’s degree(or equivalent experience) and 3+ years combined experience within technical support, systems administration, systems engineering and security administration;
• Must have effective oral and written communications skills and the ability to work successfully with others;
• Strong analytical/problem solving skills, ability to provide alternatives, root cause analysis, testing skills and ability to make thoughtful proposals are also among the skills required;
• Must have practical experience with network, systems and storage management implementation, troubleshooting, change management and root cause analysis;
• Must possess hands-on experience with later Linux/VMWare platform hardware and software.
• Ability to build a server from bare metal to functional based on business requirements
• Ability to quickly diagnose problems in the Linux OS based on common tools (log files, application errors)

Desired Skills:

• 3-5 years of enterprise scale Red Hat Enterprise Linux operational expertise, with increasing responsibility and technical acumen.
• 3 years of VMWare operational expertise.
• 1-2 years of Configuration Management experience via tools (Chef/Ansible/Puppet/Salt)
• Experience with mission critical systems management in a large global organization.
• Shell &/OR Python scripting.
• Knowledge of could services and the (link removed) platform.
• Understanding of Apache web services
• Understanding of Centrify management suite
• Understanding of Red Hat Satellite
• Experience as part of an on-call rotation
• Experience with monitoring tools (Zabbix, Splunk, Nagios, etc)