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Senior Server/Storage Systems Engineer

3 months ago


Austin, United States Saxon Global Full time
Job DescriptionSenior Server/Storage Systems Engineer

1+ year contract

Location: Austin, TX (Can work Remote, but needs to be Local)

General Overview:

At a senior level, provisions, configures, operates and maintains physical/virtual servers and supporting services in alignment with business processing requirements. This position utilizes in-depth knowledge of virtualization using unified compute, storage and network resources. This includes creating templates and balancing resources for optimal performance, availability and risk avoidance. Additional areas of responsibility include administrative support for mass storage systems and cloud based solutions. Responsible for ongoing lifecycle maintenance tasks such as monitoring, tuning, patching and securing of relevant IT resources. This work is scheduled in accordance with established policies and procedures based on ITIL framework. Additionally, this position assists in developing standard operating procedures to ensure a consistent and optimum level of performance for both operational and regulatory concerns. This position regularly takes a new perspective to solve complex problems, works independently and receives minimal guidance. Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience and may direct the work of other staff members.

  • Performs complex operating system provisioning and administration including system patch management. Works with application users and data owners to maintain named user access controls within current security roles and coordinate systems life cycle events.
  • Manages technology projects in accordance with DevOps principles.
  • Proactively monitors, analyzes and reviews multi-platform computing environment and executes problem avoidance practices in order to maintain a high level of reliability and availability.
  • Identifies best and least cost infrastructure solutions that meet stringent security and availability requirements.
  • Implements equipment using practical knowledge of DNS, LAN subnetting, and basic routing principals.
  • Plans, documents and communicates operating systems, physical host and ancillary resource configuration standards.
  • Takes leadership role in managing major incidents and problems through root cause analysis and effective communication among teams.
  • Monitors relevant systems for availability and performance. Performs periodic metrics reporting to show continuous performance.
  • Follows established IT processes for change, configuration and problem management as well as regulatory requirements such as NERC/CIP.
  • Acts as technical lead on assigned projects. Takes responsibility for completion of assigned project tasks.
  • Actively participates in professional development activities
  • Conducts routine hardware and software audits of servers to ensure compliance with established standards
  • Designs, recommends and develops a comprehensive system of inventory and monitoring for supported hardware and software.
  • Ensures data/media recoverability by implementing a program of system backups appropriate to the operating system and resident application(s).
  • For incumbents at SOCC, this job will be performed in a regulated, real-time, mission critical operational environment using the processes specific to that environment.

This general overview only includes essential functions of the job and does not imply that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instruction and to perform any other job-related duties requested by supervisor or management.

Minimum Qualifications:

Nine or more years of experience in system configuration and/or operation, or other IT related field. A degree(s) in computer science, information technology or relevant field may be substituted per client guidelines for certain years of experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Degree in computer science, information technology or relevant field
  • Certification relevant to systems administration, storage or virtualization

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems and administration
  • Knowledge of VMware virtualized Hypervisor architecture and administration
  • Knowledge and experience in Powershell and/or other scripting languages
  • Knowledge of DevOps and Cloud deployments
    • Working experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud
    • Working experience in a Continuous Improvement/Continuous Delivery CI/CD environment
  • Knowledge of unified computing systems and blade server architecture
  • Knowledge of backup and recovery practices
  • Knowledge of security best practices for systems, software and services
  • Knowledge of storage architecture and administration
  • Working knowledge of LAN/WAN, routing, switching, and subnetting
  • Knowledge and experience with cloud technologies such as VMware, OpenStack, and CloudStack
  • Knowledge and experience in ITIL processes including change and incident management and root cause analysis
  • Skill in Active Directory provisioning, design and operation
  • Skill in provisioning of storage related resources using protocols such as iSCSI, FCoE, CIFS and NFS
  • Skill in the provisioning and administration of virtual servers
  • Skill in verbal and written communications, including process and diagrammatical documentation as well as presentation skills
  • Intermediate skill level in office productivity applications (i.e., email, word processing, spreadsheets, etc.)
  • Skill in analyzing and solving complex problems
  • Skill in communicating effectively with team members, supervision/management and external organizations under normal and emergency conditions
  • Ability to build relationships, foster teamwork and work in a team environment
  • Ability to balance and manage competing high priority work demands

Work Environment:

  • Work hours are spent in an office environment or home office per guidelines in the Employee Policy Manual
  • Work involves weekends, holidays and occasional non-standard hours

Required Skills : Must have the foundation of Windows and VMWare skills but also has knowledge in UCS and Citrix (on and off prem). Linux is always helpful but there would be little in the way of admin. Dev ops a plus
Basic Qualification :
Additional Skills :
Background Check :Yes
Notes :
Selling points for candidate :
Project Verification Info :
Candidate must be your W2 Employee :Yes
Exclusive to Apex :Yes
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :Yes
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No
Interview times set : :No
Type of project :Development/Engineering
Master Job Title :Net/Sys Eng: Windows
Branch Code :Austin