Sr. Systems Engineer

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Sr. Systems Engineer for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in Alpharetta, GA .


Seeking a Sr. Systems Engineer to join the Enterprise Compute Infrastructure team.

This team is responsible for compute, enterprise storage, virtualization, and backup technologies.

The Sr. Systems Engineer will be responsible for engineering and operational duties for a diverse set of technologies with a focus on Linux and storage.

The position requires excellent troubleshooting skills and the ability to work independently to meet team goals and objectives.



Responsibilities :

Participate in all aspects of Linux server lifecycle management, on-premises and in the public cloud, including: deployment, maintenance, security, and decommissioning

Lead security focused efforts to harden the Linux environment through OS firewalling, SELinux, auditd, encryption/cryptography, MFA, etc.

Identify areas where automation for operational improvement of day-to-day/manual tasks can be deployed across various systems & storage technologies

Respond to and resolve alerts associated with Linux, VMware, and storage events

Leverage enterprise tools to monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot systems and make informed decisions for workload optimization

Collaborate with other infrastructure teams in the troubleshooting and resolution of escalated system and application related issues

Maintain current and accurate Confluence documentation for team technologies

Maintain team source code in SCM/Git

Track projects and tasks in Jira

Required Skills :

Bachelors degree or equivalent experience

+ years of proven experience in managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux and VMware

Excellent written and verbal communication skills Willing to work occasional off-hours

Preferred Skills :

Experience supporting Linux systems running Oracle DBs in an iSCSI/FC SAN environment Proven skills using Bash, Python, or Ansible for scripting and automation REST API scripting/automation experience

Red Hat Satellite experience in patching and vulnerability management CIS standards implementation/adoption

Strong NetApp file/block (NFS/iSCSI/FC) storage experience preferred NFSv w/Kerberos authentication experience Cisco UCS or other blade infrastructure experience