System Engineer

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Title: System Engineer 3

Location: Remote

Typical Day in the Role
• Purpose of the Team: The purpose of this team is to manage Azure resources.and have to maintain compliance on some of those, on, well, on all of those resources to just make sure that, hey, we're aligned with the latest security, either patching or managing of resources, facilitating with upgrades of those pieces of material.

Candidate Requirements
• Best vs. Average: The ideal resume would contain working knowledge of Ansible and playbooks.

Summary:
This is a site reliability engineering role in the Service Health Platforms team, responsible for the operation of enterprise network observability platforms that consist of commercially available platforms and internally developed systems that ingest network telemetry. The data ingested by these systems provide the foundation for tools used by our network engineers to operate more efficiently in the context of our scale.

Job Responsibilities:
• Administer and operate Windows and Linux VMs hosted in Azure to ensure they remain complaint with security and configuration standards.
• Maintain network observability platforms including syslog-ng, and trapd by performing upgrades, patching, capacity planning, authoring rules using regular expressions.
• Provide additional support for SevOne Network Performance Manager and Broadcom AppNeta observability platforms
• Manage assigned projects and program components to deliver services in accordance with established objectives
• Identify and automate tasks with Bash, Powershell, or Python
• Troubleshoot complex network observability configurations, software applications, operating systems through regular maintenance
• Deploy, configure, and manage cloud services on platforms like Azure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Implement DevOps practices and tools, including CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code, to automate and streamline development and deployment processes.
• Perform BCDR failover testing where appropriate
• Participate in on-call rotation (DRI)

Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field; or equivalent experience
• 5-7 years enterprise experience in an IT systems, network, or site reliability engineering role
• Strong understanding of network observability, including SNMP, SNMP Traps, NetFlow, gNMI
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or similar cloud platforms
• Strong understanding of enterprise networking protocols
• Experience with system capacity and planning, as well as functional configuration and audit
• Experience with system planning and capacity tools and analyses

Preferred Qualifications:
• Proficiency in automating tasks using Bash, Powershell, Python.
• Proficient with regular expressions
• Experience with SevOne and/or Broadcom AppNeta or similar observability platforms.
• Experienced with various source control platforms
• Working knowledge of Ansible and playbooks
• Intermediate knowledge of data retrieval languages such as KQL and T-SQL
• Experience and exposure on commercially available AI platforms.

What is the ideal background of a candidate for this role?

The ideal background for the role would to have deep understanding of network monitoring systems and management protocols. Technical proficiency with enterprise routing and switching protocols. Deep knowledge running syslog-ng and trapd on Linux. Exposure to management platforms such as SevOne Network Performance Manager and Broadcom AppNeta.

Top 3 Must-Have HARD Skills

• Syslog-NG (3 years)
• Linux sysadmin (5 years)
• Network Engineering (3 years)

Thanks

Salary Range: $1,39,000 - 1,49,000 Annually -Factors that may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertain to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year]

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Preferred Skills


Syslog

• Linux
• Network Engineering

Job details


Job ID 332848


Role System Engineer


Location Redmond, Washington, US


Job type Direct Hire


Recruiter Tushar


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About Ascendion


Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees.


Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.