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| Job ID: 14069294 |
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| Job Title: | Senior Systems Engineer - Hybrid (Remote/St. Paul, MN) |
| Work Type: | Work Days: Work Vary: Yes , Shift: Other, Hours Per Week: 40, Work Type: Regular |
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| Salary Offered: | Unspecified |
| Benefits: | Unspecified. |
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| Physical Required: | Unspecified |
| Drug Testing Required: | Unspecified |
| Education Required: | Bachelor's Degree |
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| Experience Required: | Unspecified |
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| Required Skills: | Please see the job description for information about required job skills. |
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| Job Description: |
Description
Position Overview:
A Senior Systems Engineer will serve as a key technical subject matter expert that ensures optimum levels of system and infrastructure availability and resiliency. The Senior Systems Engineer at Affinity Plus will be responsible for identifying enterprise-level solutions for complex problems that result in the secure design and lifecycle management of the hybrid systems infrastructure. This role maintains a bias toward reduction of risks to security, availability, latency and efficiency. Identified operational and security risks to the credit union will require their collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, including senior leadership to assess and mitigate those risks.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Collaborate and drive conversations with team members in the development and design of complex architecture and functional requirements to derive and deliver the highest quality environment for critical business services
Lead in prioritizing day-to-day operational support, design, and analysis efforts to ensure the highest levels of site resilience and site reliability engineering objectives
Research, analyze, and compile complex technical data in projected operational environments to optimize effectiveness in design as well as operational cost
Design for and implement observability in solutions
Work effectively with cross-functional teams using a hybrid approach of agile and waterfall methodologies for project and product delivery
Use the AWS well-architected framework best practices when engineering AWS data center services
Maintain, monitor and test backup solutions and high availability designs for business continuity
Monitor and analyze systems for optimal performance and recommend strategies for future growth and scaling
Research, test and implement automation solutions to remove repetitiveness in provisioning infrastructure and improving operational processes.
Communicate technical requirements and risk effectively with messaging appropriate to the audience
Analyze, derive and assign least privilege access-level assignments to staff, systems, and vendors
Analyze operational requirements to identify functional and cross-functional requirements
Apply technical knowledge and experience to assess new technologies and innovations to develop recommendations
Perform security reviews in the context of our environment using industry and regulatory guidance and when needed, conduct remediations promptly.
Maintain, analyze, and administer a VMware infrastructure including installing, upgrading and patching
Maintain and monitor a Cisco UCS environment, as well as upgrading and patching
Build and administer hybrid on-premise Active Directory and Azure AD
Maintain, update and monitor Exchange on-premise system
Research and focus on the roadmap for the email system and associated productivity tool integrations
Maintain a Cisco MDS Fibre Channel and Pure Storage SAN environment for performance, and availability
Leverage Splunk Enterprise for log and event analysis
Create and maintain architecture diagrams, playbooks and documentation of system infrastructure
Administer and monitor Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Red Hat and CentOS Linux operating systems
Report to leadership on outages, updates on key infrastructure, audit mitigation progress, and project assignments
Other duties as assigned
Qualification and Skills:
8+ years of progressive experience in an IT System Engineer or similar role
Bachelor's degree in MIS, Computer Science, Engineering or similar field or equivalent combination of work experience or education preferred
Certifications in AWS, Azure, VMware, Redhat, and Microsoft preferred
Proven experience in system design, optimization, and delivery
In-depth infrastructure knowledge and skillset to implement multiple layers of protection for the resiliency and security of a multi-layer environment
Expertise in change and release management, including
Functional knowledge and experience with collaboration and unified communication services, Cisco experience preferred
Functional knowledge and experience with Cisco IOS and NX-OS administration of routers, switches, Palo Alto firewalls and fabric devices (VLANs, Port Channels, ACLs, Spanning Tree, Data Center Network Manager)
Functional knowledge and experience with configuration and management of enterprise level web and email filtering devices and endpoint security including anti-virus, spam and other malware protections
Expertise knowledge: Windows and/Azure Active Directory, Domain Controllers, DNS, DHCP, DFS, LDAP; Group Policy; and Kerberos.
Functional knowledge and experience of measuring and troubleshooting application performance. SIEM and Application Performance Management tool experience preferred.
Working knowledge of AWS data center delivery services: EC2, VPCs, Load Balancers, Transit gateways, Backup, S3, Route 53, Cloudtrail, etc.
Proficiency in Identity Services management - authentication methods (MFA, SSO (SAML/ADFS), client-server, distribution system); encryption/decryption; PKI; Layer 2 and Layer 3
Demonstrated willingness to learn new skills and adapt easily to change by adopting new technologies and accepting increased responsibility
Expert in managing Exchange on-premise with a willingness to move us forward
Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to explain technical matters in an understandable manner
Time Management skills and the ability to prioritize workload
Flexibility to adapt and succeed in a dynamic environment
Strong analytical and decision-making skills required with a high degree of accuracy
Workplace Environment:
Working in a stationary position for 80% of the work day
Utilizing the telephone 10-20% of the day
Moving, lifting and/or carrying 30 pounds with or without accommodations
Bending, twisting, kneeling, stooping or crouching when appropriate, on occasion
Repetitive movements, including but not limited to typing, mousing, phones, etc.
Requires onsite presence based on coordination of work with other employees and/or departments. May require travel to attend on-site meetings/events for collaboration, connection, project work, All-Employee Day, etc.
Required Work Schedule:
Standard Monday through Friday business hours with participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation as well as a willingness to work after hours as needed for product delivery, upgrades, equipment replacement, etc. Consistent and reliable attendance is a required essential function of this role to meet the needs of the department/team and organization.
This position is mostly remote, with occasional on-site work for in-person meetings, and team or company events in St. Paul, MN or the surrounding metro.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
Affinity Plus is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status or status as an individual with disability.
Refer to ID 73904080_3 when applying |
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