Systems Engineer

• Contribute to Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code for the client's global private cloud.
• Develop tools in Python, bash, and JavaScript to replace manual work and improve customer maintenance experience.
• Drive enhancements and bugfixes for large scale automation projects such as patching, provisioning, and kickstart domains.
• Design and implement procedures to accomplish maintenances where automation and tooling cannot, drive resolution of root causes with internal team members.
• Prepare new client products and services for production readiness with design review, feedback to engineering teams, training, and testing.
• Use broad knowledge and experience of systems administration and networking principles to proactively prevent and address incidents while constantly improving documentation.
• Participate in escalations and Root Cause Analysis of issues in both US Federal and global Commercial infrastructures.
• Troubleshoot database backup and restore failures as well as perform database migrations.
• Support operation of a wide variety of infrastructure services including Machine Learning and Prediction, Cloudera Big Data clusters, Kafka and RabbitMQ messaging, database encryption, E-Mail infrastructure at scale, DNS, Puppet, Elasticsearch, F5 BigIP, and more.

• Strong Linux expertise is a must.
• Expert-level skills and background in systems administration and engineering.
• Understanding of the components of a cloud infrastructure including hardware platforms, OS, applications, databases, networks, web and application servers.
• Prior experience in Site Reliability Engineering/DevOps and managing large-scale server infrastructure at a cloud computing or MSP setting is highly desirable.
• Experience with performance and availability monitoring, analysis, and configuration management platforms (e.g. Nagios/Icinga, Cacti, Ansible, Puppet, cfengine, chef, Splunk, Logstash).
• Working level knowledge of one: Perl, Python, JavaScript.
• Familiarity with MySQL, Oracle, MariaDB, PostgreSQL or similar technologies; proficiency preferred.
• Expert-level skills and experience with service troubleshooting in a production environment covering web front-end, Systems, Databases and Networks.
• Familiarity with Networking Technologies such as routing, switching, and load balancing. F5 and NGINX experience are ideal.
• Understanding of ITIL v3 framework and how it applies to incidents, problems, and changes.
• Good communication skills and ability to work well in a collaborative team environment.

"If you are interested, feel free to reach out to me directly at [suraj.kumar@honorvet.com].