Systems Engineer

Kforce has an enterprise client seeking a Systems Engineer 5 in Austin, TX. Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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
• Understand how commodity servers, operating systems and networks function, perform and scale
• Possess superb troubleshooting, project management and problem analysis skills

• Knowledge of C, C++ or Java
• Knowledge of VCS (git, mercurial, svn)
• Understanding of AWS technologies (aws.amazon.com)
• 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