Systems Engineer III

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. Our client is a global technology leader that is transforming the way people shop, consume content, and interact with digital services. With a strong presence across ecommerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence, the company is known for its customercentric approach, innovationdriven culture, and largescale global impact. It continues to invest in building products and services that improve everyday life while supporting businesses, communities, and economies worldwide.

Position: Systems Engineer III

Location: Seattle,WA

Duration: 4 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Job Description:

• The successful engineer in this role will:
• Understand how commodity servers, operating systems and networks function, perform and scale.
• Possess superb troubleshooting, project management and problem analysis skills.
• Drive technical innovation and efficiency in infrastructure operations via automation.
• Design server monitoring and management solutions using automation and self-repair.
• Create processes that enhance operational workflow and provide positive customer impact.
• Dive deep to resolve problems at their root, looking for failure patterns amenable to long-term solutions via simplification and automation.
• Avoid re-inventing the wheel and prefer appropriately simple, repeatable solutions over more complex and failure prone ones.
• Recognize and adopt best practices in documentation, testing, security, operational support at scale, and efficient use of resources.
• Develop appropriate metrics to demonstrate performance at improving operational efficiency.

Core Requirements:

• In depth knowledge of & experience deploying and operating Linux or other UNIX variants in a datacenter environment.
• Relentless passion for frugality and out-of-the-box engineering.
• Strong system troubleshooting skills.
• Proficiency and experience in automation via Perl/Python programming and shell scripting.
• Good understanding of standard internet protocols (Ethernet, ARP, IP, ICMP, UDP, TCP, SSL, DNS, etc.)
• Demonstrable grasp of security best practices in server configuration, tool development, and access controls.
• Experience in building SQL queries.

Highly Desirable Attributes:

• Knowledge of C, C++ or Java.
• Knowledge of VCS (git, mercurial, svn).
• Understanding of AWS technologies.
• Experience deploying or managing servers in large-scale, geographically diverse environments.
• Understanding & experience of managing and monitoring large scale disk sub-systems.
• Operational knowledge of common enterprise switching and routing platforms

Top 3 Must Have Hard Skills:

• In depth knowledge of & experience developing controls systems including developing PLC and HMI applications and integrating components like drives, barcode readers, and remote sensors.
• Proficiency in multiple IEC 61131-3 languages.
• Understanding of basic network troubleshooting including industrial networks like Ethercat, Ethernet/IP, Profibus/Profinet, etc.

Nice to haves:

• Knowledge of C, C++ or Java.
• Understanding of AWS technologies
• Experience deploying or managing machines in large-scale, geographically diverse environments.

Leadership Principles:

• Deliver results
• Learn and be curious

Years of Experience:

• 5-7 years

Degree/ Certification Requirements:

• Bachelors in engineering

The successful engineer in this role will:

• Understand how complex robotics workcells operate, including an understanding of servo drives, industrial networks, safety systems, and integration with host systems.
• Have experience developing and deploying robotics workcells, including commissioning best practices, and troubleshooting methodologies for complex integrated systems.
• Own the development of systems and features to improve system throughput, availability, quality, and improve deployment speed and efficacy.
• Own documentation of system for immediate team as well as partner commissioning and support teams.
• Have experience developing and evaluating metrics to judge performance of machines and systems.
• Have experience with software development for controls systems.

Purpose of the Team and key projects:

• Scaling deployment base, automated conditioning. Auto recovery from errors. Code refactoring.

What makes this role interesting:

• Innovative team in Robotics, working with a complex team. Intentionally manipulating items in a human touch way.

Team culture/ selling points:

• Custom robotics work, working with different types of engineers within the org. Scalability

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.