About the roleThe Systems Engineer is responsible for the technical implementation, administration, and support of assigned systems and infrastructure across company projects, in accordance with customer specifications and current requirements. This role works with Product Management and Engineering to define requirements and high-level design, ensures systems achieve high availability, maintainability, and reliability, and helps define the future infrastructure roadmap to support increased capacity and availability.
What you'll do- Implement, configure, and maintain assigned systems, applications, and infrastructure components in accordance with customer specifications.
- Partner with Product Management and Engineering to define requirements and high-level system design.
- Administer and troubleshoot operating systems, virtualization platforms, and business applications to ensure availability and reliability.
- Apply patches, updates, and configuration changes following change-management procedures.
- Automate routine administration tasks using scripting and configuration management tools.
- Monitor system health and performance, and respond to incidents to minimize downtime.
- Support the definition of future system architecture to increase capacity and availability.
- Document system configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting steps.
Qualifications- Associate's degree, or equivalent professional experience.
- 2+ years of IT technical experience.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Public Trust or Security Clearance.
- Experience administering Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu) and/or Windows Server environments.
- Familiarity with virtualization platforms, such as VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, or KVM.
- Experience with configuration management and automation tools, such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
- Exposure to containerization basics (Docker) and cloud fundamentals (AWS, Azure).
- Experience with monitoring and ITSM tools, such as Nagios, Prometheus, or ServiceNow.
- Relevant certifications, such as CompTIA Linux+, RHCSA, or Microsoft Certified: Windows Server.
Salary Range: $55,000-$140,000 based on experience and qualifications