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Halo Group

Sr. Systems Engineer

austin, TX

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Halo Group lists this Sr. Systems Engineer opportunity in austin, Texas. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

Job Description

Job Description: The Senior Systems Engineer works as part of a team responsible for the design of the system architecture, server infrastructure management, and advanced technical support. He/She also provides technical leadership required to effectively deliver high-quality, timely IT solutions and services.

The role is a part of a high performing team in a fast-paced organization, requiring partner and business focus. As well as demonstrated skills tied to leadership, people, communication, analytics and adaptability.

Qualifications

What a Senior Systems Engineer does:

Provides effective solutions to the most difficult operations engineering problems

Long term thinking with respect to major design and technology choices

Operate with complex reporting relationships to reconcile competing priorities and achieve business unit objectives

Communicates at an expert level via documentation and verbally with both peers and partners

Collaborates with architects across functions to help set architectural direction for delivering highly reliable, scalable, and operable solutions

Partners with development teams, DBAs and QA in a DevOps model of agile development process

Demonstrates entrepreneurial perspective in the ideation and implementation of products and services to accelerate growth

Transforms business ideas into implementable technology solutions, considering build, buy and partnering alternatives

Make decisions which may have a broad impact and influence the organizational direction

Rapidly adapt to new and changing situations to quickly solve problems and find new directions

Drives continuous improvement through change management procedures - designing, definition of roadmaps, standardization of processes and methodologies

Periodic rotational 24 hours on call support

The Senior Systems Engineer needs:

Experience designing highly available solutions at scale with security and performance

Experience with automation and configuration management tools (Preferred: Chef and/or Puppet)

Experience with public cloud services and deployment (Preferred: AWS, GCP, or Azure experience)

Strong development experience in programming/scripting languages (Preferred: Go, Python, and/or Ruby)

Knowledge of the software development lifecycle and experience with source code management tools

Strong ability to troubleshoot complex issues ranging from system resources to application stack traces

Strong hands-on experience in building and maintaining infrastructure for micro services

Experience with Continuous Integration, continuous delivery/deployment tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, or similar

Strong knowledge of UNIX

Experience integrating Open Source tools and software

Experience with TCP/IP, routing, VLANS, AWS Direct Connect, VPN and other networking concepts

Experience with VMWare, Vagrant, Docker, or Rocket is a definite plus

Experience with monitoring tools like NewRelic, Zabbix, Nagios or similar

Excellent DNS, LDAP, syslog and network service experience

Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in highly complex systems and drive performance optimizations

Working knowledge of enterprise storage technologies and protocols such as NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, Software Defined Storage, Object Storage

OBSESSIVE desire to automate and improve everything including process improvements, standardizing tools and technologies!

Required Soft Skills:

Complete ownership and managing the life cycle of end-to-end solutions

Peer and partner relationship focused

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced team environment

Ability to learn new skills/technologies quickly and independently

Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Independent problem-solving skills

CANDIDATE DETAILS

Minimum Education - Bachelor's Degree

Willingness to Travel - Occasionally

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Worksite address

austin, TX, 78716, US

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