IT System Engineer
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Job Description
Who We Are:At Twitter our IT Infrastructure team focuses on implementing and supporting systems to help our internal customers meet their day-to-day operational needs. We are responsible for establishing baseline infrastructure including virtual environments, file storage, and network engineering and administration.
Our IT Infrastructure team partners with our IT End User Services and IT Applications teams to support the corporate environment, as well as working with multiple stakeholders on a project-to-project basis. Our mission is to keep our business running effectively while maintaining a healthy technology environment.
What You’ll Do:The responsibility of this position includes contributing to support and maintenance of a wide array of services, including an estate of Linux and Windows servers as well as the puppet configuration management to automate their function. You will design and manage most of the systems that each of our customers uses on a daily basis, including the phone system, the internal DNS/DHCP, NetApp storage units and our VMWare services within each of our offices and data centers. As part of this job, developing and maintaining analytics for system performance and health are also required.
The role will comprise a mix of Development Operations, QA and Infrastructure Support work for all systems and partners we engage with.
Who You Are:To continually strengthen our growing team, we are looking for an experienced Systems Engineer, to help build, deploy and manage our internal infrastructure. As an integral member of the broader IT Infrastructure team, this position will be responsible for developing and maintaining creative solutions in support of our business partner’s evolving requirements. If this sounds like you, you probably have experience with these responsibilities:
Building and managing and supporting complex software stacks on Linux and Windows
Running root cause analysis for infrastructure related troubleshooting
Develop technical designs and solution recommendations
Partnering with vendors, internal IT Engineers and working with multiple business partners to develop solutions against departmental roadmaps
Partner with other internal engineering teams and third party vendors to develop consistent and scalable solutions
Collaborate with internal audit and compliance teams to identify, remediate, and prevent issues & risks
Contributing to design, code review, and release management as part of the oversight of our internal software development lifecycle
Work with other members of the broader IT team for coordinated solution delivery
Provide input on and help maintain standard operating procedures
Help mentor junior members of the team
Contribute to a 24/7 oncall schedule (Partial)
Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Ability to translate business needs to technical solutions
Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills
Well-developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication
Ability to work in an aggressive, fast paced environment managing multiple priorities
Team oriented approach
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3 to 5 years of experience on
Systems Engineering for Corporate Infrastructure
Managing large server estates for Linux and Windows
Virtualization at scale
Configuration Management
Managing scalable storage
Developing and maintaining supporting metrics for systems
Writing design documents
Working in a source-controlled environment.
Experience working within an Agile development framework
Disciplined approach in producing and maintaining documentation
Ability to demonstrate scripting capability in Python or Perl
Experience with standard development practices
Experience with standard development tools (Source control, Code Review, etc.)
Experience with standard devops tools (CI, Orchestration, etc.)
Additional Information
We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Twitter. Twitter is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.
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