Systems Engineer

Valiant is looking for a Systems Engineer to join our team!

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain a strong awareness of technical trends in information technology, develop and maintain a strong awareness of on-going IT projects, and business unit requirements.
• Able to apply the Sponsor's project management model for development efforts; and provide analysis, design, development, deployment, and lifecycle support for innovative hardware/software/ network systems and applications.
• Work involves developing and supporting end-to-end technical projects; ensure systems being developed comply with the enterprise technical architecture.
• Assist project and program teams prepare for project control gates; and keep senior management apprised of project or program status.
• Immediate response may be required to restore or maintain system functionality.
• Possess Local Area Network (LAN) skills; ability to build servers, understand certificate authorities and integrate customer systems into enterprise.
• Other duties as assigned.

• 8+ years of relative expreeience.
• Strong background in Microsoft Systems Engineering and providing support to those systems.
• Strong recent experience in Windows platform operating systems Expertise in Cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack).
• In-depth knowledge of Linux distributions, including configuration, management and troubleshooting.
• Strong scripting skills in languages like Bash, Python, Ansible for automating tasks and workflows.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Tereform and Cloudformation.
• Strong knowledge of Windows Active Directory suite to include (DNS, DFS, ADCS, GPOs).
• Strong knowledge of virtualization products with a focus on VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vRealize Operations.
• Strong knowledge of storage devices with a focus on Netapp with NAS protocols.
• Demonstrated strong performance as a Systems Engineer / Architect, developing or implementing information systems with a broad experience base across the entire project lifecycle.
• Demonstrated capacity to understand and communicate technical ideas, concepts, and thoughts across multiple technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to independently determine and develop approach to solutions.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Strong background in Microsoft Systems Engineering and providing support to those systems.
* Strong recent experience in Windows platform operating systems
* Expertise in Cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack)
* In-depth knowledge of Linux distributions, including configuration, management and troubleshooting.
* Strong scripting skills in languages like Bash, Python, Ansible for automating tasks and workflows.
* Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
* Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Tereform and Cloudformation
* Strong knowledge of Windows Active Directory suite to include (DNS, DFS, ADCS, GPOs)
* Strong knowledge of virtualization products with a focus on VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vRealize Operations.
* Strong knowledge of storage devices with a focus on Netapp with NAS protocols.
* Demonstrated strong performance as a Systems Engineer / Architect, developing or implementing information systems with a broad experience base across the entire project lifecycle.
* Demonstrated capacity to understand and communicate technical ideas, concepts, and thoughts across multiple technical and non-technical stakeholders.
* Demonstrated ability to independently determine and develop approach to solutions.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Physical requirements may include, but are not limited to, lifting, ascending, and descending stairs, climbing, extended sitting or standing, to various degrees.