Systems Engineer IV

1 week ago

Washington, Washington, D.C., United States Encode, Inc. Full time

Position Overview

The Systems Engineer IV provides advanced engineering support for cloud and on-premise infrastructure, with a primary focus on architecting, deploying, and maintaining AWS environments. This role collaborates closely with internal IT teams to enhance infrastructure reliability, automate provisioning, and support enterprise-level systems operations.

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect, engineer, configure, and deploy AWS and related infrastructure technologies using approved organizational standards. System Engineer IV
  • Partner with Systems Operations to build self-service infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD delivery pipelines, logging tools, and monitoring services. System Engineer IV
  • Maintain and update system documentation as needed. System Engineer IV
  • Collaborate with IT Operations Engineers to install, configure, and support physical and virtual server environments. System Engineer IV
  • Continuously monitor, troubleshoot, and improve infrastructure performance and stability. System Engineer IV
  • Operate enterprise monitoring, alerting, backup, antivirus, anti-spam, and malware protection tools, as well as offsite storage and data-mirroring systems. System Engineer IV

Core Competencies

  • Forward-thinking and able to anticipate operational needs. System Engineer IV
  • Strong critical thinking and analytical problem-solving skills.
  • Demonstrates adaptability, openness to innovation, and change.
  • Communicates effectively across multiple channels with emotional intelligence.
  • Performance-focused, with the ability to set and meet clear goals.
  • Customer-oriented with a commitment to service excellence.
  • Committed to continuous learning and developing self and others.
  • Collaborative mindset with the ability to work across teams and stakeholders. System Engineer IV

Required Skills & Experience

  • 7–10 years of directly related IT systems engineering or administration experience. System Engineer IV
  • Strong AWS cloud architecture experience, including CLI usage.
  • Expertise in Shell scripting (Shell, Perl, Python).
  • Hands-on experience with Unix/Linux installation, administration, operations, and maintenance.
  • Proficiency with Unix/Linux security tools, ports, protocols, routing, and switching in firewalled WAN environments.
  • Extensive experience with AWS services such as ECS, EC2, API Gateway, S3, Lambda, etc. System Engineer IV
  • Experience managing Public Cloud infrastructure environments.
  • Advanced skills in designing, developing, and troubleshooting new and existing scripts.
  • Experience operating in a mature enterprise IT environment.

Preferred/Bonus Skills

  • Experience with RHEL Satellite Server.
  • Experience with Puppet configuration management.
  • Familiarity with Atlassian tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence). System Engineer IV

Education & Certifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent work experience of 8+ years). System Engineer IV
  • AWS Certification preferred. System Engineer IV

Experience Requirement

  • A minimum of 10 years of total professional experience performing related duties in systems engineering or similar roles.

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