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