Senior System Engineer (AWS, Linux) - Ledgent Technology

We prefer contract to hire but would be open to be direct hire candidate. This position requires to be 100% on site in La mirada during training for the first few weeks, after that will be remote, and will need to be on site one week of the month in La Mirada.

The Senior Systems Engineer designs, builds, implements, and supports elegant systems and systems infrastructure solutions to advance company's organizational goals and objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Handle all aspects of systems deployment projects with a focus on systems infrastructure, including initiating purchase requests, developing implementation plans, defining methods of procedure (MOP), and executing work
• Participate in on-call rotation for escalation support of technical issues, supporting the 24x7x365 production environment
• Develop life-cycle plans for building and scaling services, updating the systems infrastructure, and retiring legacy solutions
• Develop and maintain technical documentation and procedures
• Establish and recommend systems infrastructure policies and standards for the team and organization
• Develop monitoring and trending systems to predict capacity issues within the systems infrastructure
• Mentor junior team members, providing technical & procedural guidance, and cultivating a culture of knowledge transfer within the team
• Track and work requests via ticketing system; perform triage and provide resolution for both internal and external customers
• Deploy and support hardware and software for workstations and servers, including troubleshooting, component replacement, auxiliary/peripheral installation, and software installation
• Audit and deploy OS, application security, and feature updates on equipment managed by Systems
• Monitor performance, security, and availability of the server environment. Recommend improvements in technologies and practices to increase these metrics
• Support the organizational's hosted VoIP environment for local and remote users
• Assist leadership in defining and enforcing organizational policies related to Systems and Tools

Preference will be given to candidates with the following:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience
• Proven experience and demonstrable success with designing, maintaining and implementing complex systems environments
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a dynamic environment and balance multiple projects in order to complete them successfully and within timelines
• Strong interpersonal skills, with focus on high quality customer service
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience administering DNS in a multi-domain environment
• Experience administering common infrastructure applications (e.g.,DHCP servers, web servers, email servers, mailing list servers, etc.)
• Experience with Container administration like Kubernetes or similar
• Hands-on systems administration experience in a multi-vendor, multi-OS environment (Linux, Windows, OS X, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Elastic)
• Experience with CentOS and Red Hat Linux virtualization methods
• Understanding of scalability, redundancy, and failover in architecture design and implementation
• Strong familiarity with TCP/IP networking preferred
• In-depth experience on Linux systems preferred
• Experience with programming and/or building systems and network automation tools using Perl, Python, PHP, Ansible and shell scripting preferred
• Experience with Gitlab and Devops methodologies preferred
• Experience with ELK stack preferred
• Cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, Terraform, HashiCorp Vault, Google workspace preferred

1) Excellent communication

2) AWS/Cloud - Building new environments on AWS

3) DevOps - Experience with CI/CD on gitlab or jenkins

4) Automation - scripting like Ansible , python etc...

5) Monitoring tools - building monitorin

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, or military or veteran status. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.