System Engineer

Overview

On Site
Full Time

Skills

System Administration
System Security
Regulatory Compliance
Integrated Circuit
IC
Internal Communications
Management
POC
Manual Testing
Regression Analysis
Integration Testing
Collaboration
Documentation
User Guides
Research
Reporting
Benchmarking
Customer Support
ProVision
Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Storage
Interfaces Management
Hardening
Virtualization
VMware
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Bash
Scripting
Kubernetes
GitLab
JIRA
Communication
Debugging
Systems Engineering
Computer Science
Information Systems
Science
Engineering Management
Software Engineering
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Unit Testing
Python
Computer Networking
Writing
Test Cases
Test Plans
Automated Testing
Ansible
Configuration Management
Operating Systems

Job Details

Job Description
Base-2 Solutions is seeking a System Engineer - Operations & System Administration for Kubernetes Platform Infrastructure, including but not limited to:
  • Stakeholder collaboration, development & product teams to understand operational project requirements and feature specifications.
  • Image Templating
  • Create and maintain CI/CD Pipelines
  • Perform regular system scanning, patching to maintain Enterprise system security compliance and maintain updates in IC reporting tools.
  • Facilitate deployment upgrades across Operational, Staging and Development environments.
  • Mitigation of Operational Issues affecting end users.
  • Maintain & update monitoring tools, service and health checks.
  • Determine the Team's support coverage across applicable supported hours and prioritize monitoring tasks.
  • Manage the POC support lists and OSOPs.
  • Establish and maintain test environments that mimic operational configurations and end to end scenarios.
  • Assist with analysis of test coverage to determine gaps and improvements.
  • Assist with automation of manual test cases and procedures.
  • System regression, security, performance, customer focused and integration testing.
  • Assist with defect identification and reporting with reproducible steps.
  • Schedule and communicate system outages with the team and external customers/partners.
  • Collaborate and discuss outage plans with the Ops Officers.
  • Lead & collaborate with stakeholders for internal and external product documentation (i.e. User Agreements, Customer/Partner User Guides, SOPs, Admin Guide, etc.).
  • Research and study trends with related technologies, tools, etc. and provide recommendations for streamlining processes.
  • Provide metrics and reporting on service requests.
  • Conduct performance benchmarking.
  • Monitor customer support desk tickets, troubleshoot, resolve from simple to complex.
  • Perform customer on-boarding (provision new project resources).

Required Skills
  • Skilled in Linux (RHEL) Administration including storage & interface management, hardening and patching.
  • Skilled in Ansible or similar automation technologies for configuration management, maintenance and deployment of operating systems & applications.
  • Virtualization/VMware (AWS, AZURE or similar).
  • Bash Scripting.
  • Kubernetes (K8s)/Containerization.
  • Skilled in System Scanning, Patching & Monitoring.
  • Familiar with GitLab or similar.
  • Familiar with Jira or similar.
  • Strong communication skills, self-starter who can work independently or with team to debug & resolve issues.

Qualifications
  • Fourteen (14) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
  • Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
    • Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
  • CWIP Level I required at start.
  • IAT Level 2.

Desired Skills
  • CKA Certification or Similar
  • GitOps
  • CI-CD
  • Unit-Testing
  • Python
  • Ingress/Egress
  • Networking
  • Writing & maintaining test cases, test procedures, test plans and test reports.
  • Test automation and test automation tools and frameworks.
  • Ansible or similar automation technologies for configuration management, maintenance and deployment of operating systems and applications.
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