Sr Systems Engineer 7/26/2019
Category: Telecommunications
Job Type: Direct hire
Veriant Solutions is currently seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to develop and maintain functional and secure systems for a top client.
What You’ll Do:
- Monitor systems performance and integrity of the clients networks and services.
- Design and deploy systems architectures and applications for Linux based operating systems.
- Remotely configure and install Ubuntu and CentOS operating systems and associated application software.
- Mentor a team of engineers to troubleshoot and optimize our systems for our users.
- Understand, implement, maintain and operate information system security controls and countermeasures.
- Resolve issues either by escalation using tiers of support or directly troubleshooting cloud and local infrastructure
- Maintain a two way communication with users and end-clients and maintain technical documentation.
- Establish and create systems that cater to customer needs.
- Suggest improvements to system performance, capacity and scalability.
What You Bring:
- 5+ years industry experience in systems and/or security operations.
- Proficiency in automation of various tasks to make the workflow more effective using Python, Perl, and/or shell scripting a must.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and thorough knowledge of network and system administration and architecture
- Intimate knowledge of various hardware systems I.e. RAID, SATA, Dell, HP, and SuperMicro BIOS.
- Ability to use various troubleshooting tools like PING, TRACEROUTE, MTR, TCPTRACE, TCPDUMP, and NAGIOS to diagnose and resolve issues
- Willing to assist nights and/or weekends when an emergency situation occurs.
- Proficient in Vendor neutral network & Security infrastructure (PFSENSE, OPENVPN, IPTABLES, OTP, and OTP)
- Demonstrate proficiency in Ubuntu 16.x, 18.x, CentOS 6.x, 7.x, MySQL, OpenVPN, IPTABLES, and policy routing.
- Experience working with Server infrastructure like HP Proliant, SuperMicro, Dell PowerEdge and various other servers using ILO, IDRAC, and other IPMI will be an added advantage.
- Willing to assist nights and/or weekends when an emergency situation occurs.
Nice to Have:
- Experience in installation, configuration and maintenance of CACTI, NAGIOS, SOLARWINDS, SQUID Proxy, BIND DNS, LINUX FIREWALL (UFW, FIREWALLD AND IPTABLES), OpenVPN will be prefered.
- One or more of scripting/automation tools like BASH, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.
- Experience with automation frameworks (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.).
- Network and Systems: CCNA/CCNP, JNCIA/JNCIP, A+, Network+ O/S : RHCSA, RHCE, MCSA, MCSE, Server+
- Security: InfoSec GCIH, GSLC, CEH, CISSP, Security+
What We Offer:
- Work from your home office.
- Compensation package between $100 – 115K annual
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- Join a growing company
Client not open to C2C for this role.