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Sr Systems Engineer
- Robert Half Technology (San Francisco, CA)
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Description
What You Will Do:
• Design, build, and evolve our production cloud systems infrastructure, strategically employing automation, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Use depth of cloud experience to put together elegant designs that the team will enjoy supporting.
• You will partner with infrastructure, engineering and security teams to develop, deploy, and maintain secure cloud systems aligned to internal standards and current best practices.
• Expertise in incident and problem management including timely problem identification, successful resolution, and root-cause analysis.
• Keep abreast of company growth and industry trends and iterate on automated deployment, configuration, and monitoring.
• You will tackle challenging problems to improve the platform’s reliability, resiliency, and scalability.
• Create a culture of transparency, information sharing, and collaboration through the development of excellent documentation and mentoring of junior team members.
• Ensure service level objectives through proactive monitoring, custom tooling, and on-call support/troubleshooting.
Requirements
Qualifications:
• 6+ years of expert Linux and Windows System Administration experience (CentOS, Amazon Linux, Windows Server 2019+).
• 3+ years of experience working directly with AWS Infrastructure services; AWS Certification preferred; strong knowledge of AWS services and security required.
• Experience with automation frameworks/tools like Git, Jenkins, Terraform, Packer is a MUST.
• Experience with application delivery platforms for load balancing, caching, compression, application firewalling, reverse proxy, SSL termination, etc.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes is a PLUS.
• Fluency with one or more current generation scripting language used by DevOps professionals (Python, PHP, Ruby).
• Monitoring and logging experience in any of the following: Prometheus, Splunk, Syslog, OSSEC/Wazzuh, CloudWatch.
• You have experience supporting high traffic and public facing websites, applications, and services that span multiple data-centers and cloud environments.
• You possess exceptional communication skills - written and verbal - and can communicate cross functionally with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Computer Science background and fundamentals.
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