Linux Systems Engineer

About GSPANN

We work in an explosive market at the intersection of marketing and e-commerce and are a trusted business partner for some of the world s most respected brands. We customize platforms and help create custom technology solutions to transform the way our clients connect with their employees, partners, and customers. GSPANN is headquartered in Milpitas, CA with offices around the world including United States, Canada, India, UK and Europe.

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Role: Linux Systems Engineer

Location: Rocklin, CA

Duration: 12+ Months

Job Description:

You will be part of the Technical Solutions Services team responsible for designing, building, delivering and providing 3rd Level support of our Linux environment, Ansible, Satellite, Nagios, and GitHub repos. Your job is to ensure that every client s location, associate and customer has the best experience possible utilizing the Linux solutions we provide.

In the Sr. Systems Linux Engineering role, you will work with other engineers to deliver performance and service standards from your internal customer's requirements. Using your technical experience, you will deploy to standards, automate service delivery, complete capacity planning and demonstrate efficient and effective use of the Linux environment.

This role reports to the Sr. Manager of Technology Solutions Infrastructure.

Design and support data networks for client s data centers, corporate facilities, retail stores, distribution centers, call centers, and eCommerce environment. Design, develop, implement, and support network solutions for IT projects.

Specific Responsibilities

• Participates and documents systems requirements and authors solution designs.
• Reviews and provides feedback for system design solutions that will impact their area.
• Participates in establishing strategies and standards.
• Creates and manages system capacity plans.
• Leads, or participates, in installation and configuration activities.
• Develops and maintains procedures and system documentation.
• Performs systems resource optimization activities.
• Leads, or participates, in major updates supporting new requirements and maintaining systems currency.
• Leads or participates in implementation of resources management and monitoring methods, tools and threshold.
• Works on many phases of a project or entire projects of moderate complexity
• Oversees monitoring, system access and resource administration.
• Participates in systems management, and Security Compliance activities.
• Supports resolution of production incidents.
• Routinely monitors all systems within their domain.
• Accountable for team dependencies and critical paths.
• Provides work breakdown planning and estimation.
• Reviews and evaluates the team s estimates.
• Their work and others they may oversee within their domain.
• Identifies feature and module dependencies.
• Proposes mitigation plans for identified risks and problems.
• Accountable for team dependencies and critical paths.
• Anticipates risks and provides contingency solutions and timelines.
• Collects useful metrics and targets for domain.
• Suggests process improvements and best practices.
• Measurably improves processes and best practices to achieve goals.
• May research new technologies and methods, collaborating on solutions for multiple teams and features.
• Innovates measurable improvements.
• Stabilizes emerging technologies.
• Interacts with business users, and/or functional peer group and managers.
• Works with contract resources, providing guidance and assessing the quality of work.
• Assess the quality of work and effectiveness of the agreement with contract resource arrangement.
• Sphere of influence is team.
• Actively shares knowledge (technical and professional) through shared resources and informal teachings.
• Contributes and enforces best practices.
• Inspires teamwork and guides the team.
• Assists in career development plans for engineers.
• Mentors, cross trains co-workers within area of expertise.
• Improves others productivity.
• Participates in staff recruiting.
• Self-directing and provides direction for others.
• Achieves team consent and buy-in.

Software Skills

• Active Directory-Yes
• Azure Cloud Solutions-Yes
• Configuration Management Tool-Yes
• Linux-Yes
• Microsoft O365-Yes

Working at GSPANN

GSPANN is a diverse, prosperous, and rewarding place to work. We provide competitive benefits, educational assistance, and career growth opportunities to our employees. Every employee is valued for their talent and contribution. Working with us will give you an opportunity to work globally with some of the best brands in the industry.

The company does and will take affirmative action to employ and advance in the employment of individuals with disabilities and protected veterans and to treat qualified individuals without discrimination based on their physical or mental disability status. GSPANN is an equal opportunity employer for minorities/females/veterans/disabled.