System Engineer

Job Description

Objectives of this role

·        Maintain essential IT infrastructure, including operating systems, security tools, applications, servers, email systems, laptops, desktops, software, and hardware

·        Take responsibility for projects and solutions within the larger business initiative

·        Handle business-critical IT tasks and systems that provide commercial advantage in the global marketplace

·        Enable faster and smarter business processes, and develop analytics for meaningful insights

·        Work with internal and external partners to communicate project status, activities, and achievements

Responsibilities

·        Perform server administration tasks (ex: user/group, security permissions, group policies, print services); research event-log warnings and errors; and monitor resources to ensure that systems architecture components work together seamlessly

·        Monitor data-center health using existing management tools, and respond to hardware issues as they arise; help build, test, and maintain new servers when needed

·        Maintain internal infrastructure requirements, including laptop and desktop computers, servers and security updates

·        Assist the help desk and other teams with troubleshooting to identify root cause, and provide technical support when needed

·        Perform routine and scheduled audits of all systems, including backups

Required skills and qualifications

·        Proven success in an IT role

·        Experience with or knowledge of programming languages and operating systems, current equipment and technologies, enterprise backup and recovery procedures, systems performance-monitoring tools, active directories, virtualization, HTTP/HTTPs traffic, content delivery, and caching

·        Experience in application design and integration, and cloud computing (specifically Microsoft Azure and AWS)

·        Experience in Unix/Linux systems administration

·        Expertise in analyzing and repairing large-scale distributed systems; creating volumes and assigning them to servers; and remote replication

Skills

Preferred skills and qualifications

·        Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in information technology or computer science

·        Professional certification

Ability to lift 50 or more pounds