Job Description

We are seeking a Systems Engineer for a 6-month contract-to-hire role supporting the Pacific Time Zone.  This role can work remotely from anywhere within the U.S.  

In this role, you will be working with development and system administration teams to implement, maintain, and troubleshoot the expanding systems infrastructure with a focus on automation and efficiency. You will design and maintain Hypervisor Clusters, Kubernetes Clusters, Linux and Windows virtual machines, storage area networks, and infrastructure automation. Additional responsibilities include: 

• Lead and contribute to the development of custom code to integrate platform components, fill tooling gaps, and solve potentially unique situations.
• Provide mentorship and training to the Network Automation Team.
• Perform development, testing, implementation, and review of complex automation solutions related to provisioning, monitoring, and configuring a network and infrastructure environment.
• Provide peer review and guidance on code and perform quality assurance tasks.
• Responsible for the creation of and contribution to; processes, standards, technical documentation, and design diagrams.
• Employ modern CI/CD pipelines using DevOps tooling.
• Write and maintain technical standards and documentation.
• Conduct technical research and maintain viable knowledge of technology trends, new software, and best practices.
• Automating operational reports e.g., SLA reporting, utilization statistics and network forecasting.
• Establishing system/data integrations to enhance existing or establish new processes
• Provide training to other network domain teams for the adoption of automation capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Management or related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of five years of engineering and application experience working with development teams and system administration teams.
• Minimum of three years of work experience in a large, geographically distributed server architecture.
• Minimum of three years of experience working with development teams for functional requirements on distributed server systems running internally developed applications.
• Minimum of three years of experience working for large telecommunication companies.
• Minimum of three years of networking experience with focus on server interconnections.
• Experience with large scale software upgrades and versioning changes across multiple servers.
• In depth knowledge of service provider systems, applications and processes for IT organizations.
• In depth knowledge of service provider products, services and offerings for commercial and residential services.
• Ability to automate repetitive engineering tasks.
• Familiarity with SOA and Microservice software design patterns.
• Development skills: NTH
  • PHP
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Python (preferred)
  • NodeJs
• Hands on application experience:
  • Deploying/configuring Nginx, Apache and core Linux subsystems like bind, iptables, etc.
  • Version control (eg Git/Gitlab, Github)
  • CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, Travis, TeamCity or equivalent)
  • Docker containerization and clustering (Kubernetes/ECS)
  • Configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
• Knowledge of software life cycle management with emphasis on inception, defining processes and developing technical business requirements.
• Experience with Agile (Scrum, Kanban) software delivery methodology.
• Ability to write Ops guides/MOPs/etc. as needed.
• Effectively communicate between non-technical people and deeply technical SME’s.
• Ability to communicate effectively across multiple large organizational structures.
• Driven to identify and provide effective solutions as needed.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to work independently and apply sound judgment and reasoning skills to a variety of situations.
• Ability to multi-task and collaborate effectively with other personnel to meet deadlines.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Ability to work within critical deadlines.
• Ability to adjust to rapidly changing priorities and schedules.
• Proven ability to understand and codify a manual process into an automated process using workflow-like concepts.
• Understanding and familiarity with Ansible, Jinja and other Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Understanding and familiarity with computing technologies such as; Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, containers, virtualization and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc).
• Knowledge of IP/Ethernet networking fundamentals.
• Interest and ability to research new and emerging technologies to better solve networking problems.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Strong organizational, multi-tasking, and prioritizing skills.
• Ability to work independently and apply sound judgment and reasoning skills to a variety of situations, multi-task and collaborate effectively with other personnel to meet deadlines.
• Ability to translate highly technical information into non-technical terms and user documentation.
• Strong verbal and written communication, attention to detail and familiarity with compliance concepts. 
• Ability to work within critical deadlines.

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