Systems Engineer

Job Description

Job Details:

Location: Babylon, NY 11702

Job Title: Systems Engineer 

Duration: 12 + Months (Very high possibility of Extension)

Details:

• This is a hands on technical position requiring extensive and demonstrable experience in producing detailed technical systems designs, implementation planning and execution for the deployment and operations of large-scale, distributed applications and solutions across a global infrastructure, with particular focus on the public cloud.

• This position establishes the technical deployment solutions for all applications and associated support systems, software and infrastructure within GPO Platform Technologies.

• The global environment includes Win and Linux operating systems; physical and virtual server technologies; hosting in datacenters and various public and private cloud service providers and use of their various service offerings; supporting a range of desktop and mobile applications;.

• The use of service-oriented technologies and solutions is at the center of world-wide customer-facing, product platform.

• This position will leverage his/her significant background as a Systems Engineer to set standards for systems designs, establish best practices and drive systems engineering capabilities into GPO projects and programs.

• The position will work closely with application architects, designers and operational staff to ensure all products and services are implemented for optimum operational efficiency and in accordance with Platform Technologies systems standards and practices.

Documentation Skills:

• Technical implementation, process/workflows and diagrams.

• Cloud security: Experience using AWS: IAM and Directory Service, Config, Security Groups, VPC's, Subnets and VPN IPsec Site2Site and the equivalent services in Azure General Security knowledge for the next: Linux (Selinux) and Win security, Middleware (Apache, PHP, Tomcat, JBoss and Fuse), and java applications (Security side).

• General knowledge for WAF, DDoS and Penetration test tools.

• Experience working with tools for log analysis and alert triggering; and connecting them to different monitoring tools (ELK, AWS CloudWatch, Azure OMS and SCOM) AWS certifications desirable.

• RedHat or any Linux certification is desirable. MS (MCITP, MCSE) and VMWare certifications desirable.

• Clear understanding in DevOps philosophy, infrastructure as a code and the application automation part, general understanding of agile and scrum.

• Working knowledge of GIT, Bitbucket, AWS ECR, Nexus revision/source code management systems.

• Working in ticket-drive workflow environments, e.g. Jira, Service Desk Plus, ServiceNow, etc.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years experience as a Systems Engineer/Systems Administrator operating and producing systems design specifications for Linux and Win based platforms, MS SQL and MySQL or PosgreSQL databases, noSQL databases is a plus.

• Minimum 2 years writing scripts/templates for automating cloud infrastructure, configuration management and application deployments (e.g. AWS CloudFormation or Azure Resource Groups, Puppet, Chef or Ansible).

• Minimum 2 years hands on experience with automation toolset. e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc. 

• Minimum 2 years designing and implementing Cloud (Azure and/or AWS) based systems, including use of advanced Cloud services (e.g. load balancing, gateways, networking, high availability, disaster recovery systems in the cloud and security).

• Minimum 1 year experience with logging technologies (e.g. ELK, file beat).

• Programming background in one or more of the following: Perl, Python, HTML5, Unix Shell scripts and/or PowerShell.

Additional Information

To get further details or to apply, please contact:

Ujjwal Mane

ujwal.mane(at)collabera.com

973-805-7557