Systems Engineer III

Job Title: Systems Engineer III
Location: Virtual - Must be located near a major airline hub (Atlanta area ideally, Houston also an option)
Duration: 3 months (possibility of extension)
Client: Fortune 10 Company
Pay Range: $50 to $60/hr W2
Schedule:

• 40 hours/week, M-F, 9-5
• No holidays or overtime expected
• Remote when not traveling (~75% travel required; majority East Coast, one West Coast site)

Job Description

• Provide onsite testing support post-launch at fulfillment centers, sort centers, and delivery stations.
• Conduct testing feedback and system validation (systems already installed).
• Coordinate with customers and site teams.
• Live building support and post-go-live validation.
• Analyze data, identify capacity risks, and create punch list vendor action items to ensure operational excellence.

The successful engineer in this role will:

• Understand how commodity servers, operating systems, and networks function, perform, and scale.
• Possess superb troubleshooting, project management, and problem analysis skills.
• Drive technical innovation and efficiency in infrastructure operations via automation.
• Create processes that enhance operational workflow and improve customer impact.
• Dive deep to resolve problems at their root, looking for patterns amenable to long-term solutions.
• Prefer simple, repeatable solutions over complex, failure-prone ones.
• Adopt best practices in documentation, testing, security, operational support at scale, and efficient use of resources.
• Develop metrics to demonstrate performance improvements in operational efficiency.

Core Requirements:

• Relentless passion for frugality and out-of-the-box engineering.
• Strong system troubleshooting skills.
• Proficiency and experience in automation.
• Good understanding of standard internet protocols (Ethernet, ARP, IP, ICMP, UDP, TCP, SSL, DNS, HTTP).

Required Skills:

• Bachelor s degree in an engineering field (required).
• Prior Material Handling Equipment (MHE) experience (required).
• 5-7 years experience with testing programs and validating programs (required).
• Proficiency and experience in automation.

Top 3 Must-Have Hard Skills (in order of importance):

1. Bachelor s degree in Engineering field.
2. Prior MHE (Material Handling Equipment) experience.
3. 5-7 years experience with testing, validation, and automation.

Benefits Info
Pride Global offers eligible employee s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.

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