Doug Whitfield

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Role: #Linux Systems Engineer
Location: #Mason, #OH; #Louisville, #CO; #Minneapolis, #MN; Will also consider #Remote applicants
 
Position Summary:
Do you enjoy providing support of the day-to-day operations of public, private, and hybrid cloud services across a multi-site & virtual data centers? The Systems Engineer will work within a team that provides public and private infrastructure to the Perforce global organization.  In partnership with development teams, and business stakeholders, the Systems Engineer will understand stakeholder needs and execute infrastructure enhancements, cost management, standardization, lead troubleshooting efforts including coordinating disparate vendors/providers, monitor the health of infrastructure, and ensure the capacity demands are met in the most reliable and cost-effective fashion possible.
 
Responsibilities:

    Creates and manages infrastructure components and solutions that are re-usable and flexible across compute and storage of private and public infrastructure
    Implements a cost-effective operation of an on-premise/public/hybrid cloud IaaS, monitoring and configuration tools
    Participates in the continuous development, monitoring, and troubleshooting highly configurable and continuously deployable environments in public and private infrastructure
    Implements operational and security policies and procedures throughout service delivery lifecycle
    Administers and updates storage, data backup, system redundancies and disaster recovery systems
    Analyzes, installs, acquires, builds, modifies, and supports operating system templates/containers and application stacks
    Understands interrelationship of infrastructure components and applications
    Automates tasks for speed and consistency. Works with and extends configuration management tools
    Makes decisions on resolutions in critical down time situations when escalation is impractical

Requirements:

    Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience
    Minimum 3 years in IT operations
    Minimum 3 years of multi-site enterprise experience, including 24x7 operations and continuous availability
    Minimum 3 years Operational experience with the three of the following technologies: Systems Administration (Linux), Cloud IaaS (#AWS / #Azure), Software Development/Programming, Infrastructure Automation Tools (#Terraform, #Puppet, #Ansible), Networking (Routing, DNS, TCP/IP, SSL, DHCP, Load Balancing)
    Excellent verbal and written communicator
    Must be comfortable dealing with stakeholders in crisis situations
    Understanding of common Agile project management concepts
    Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
    Knowledge of software development process and continuous integration concepts, infrastructure automation tools, public and private cloud infrastructure technologies
    Strong interpersonal skills - must be able to work effectively as part of a project/program team and foster team cooperation