Senior Systems Engineer

job summary:Remote during the pandemic, will be onsite once return to work is issued.

• Communicate clearly with peers as well as management and provide technical leadership to junior admins
• Perform hands-on analysis of the production systems, fault resolution, capacity planning and root cause analysis for critical issues
• Analyze and resolve performance issues, capacity issues
• Proactively monitor the systems to ensure high availability services with minimum downtime
• Participate in on-call rotation supporting systems after-hours, weekends and holidays
• Manage and escalate cases to vendors for problem resolution
• Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required
• Build tools to automate processes and operate production systems
• Act and work both independently and in a team environment
• Performs all other job related duties as requested
• Expert technical leadership in the design, implementation and management of our network environment
• Management of network related cloud hosted components

• Firewall - Advanced
• Load Balancing - Advanced
• Switching - Advanced
• System Monitoring - Advanced
• IRS Pub 1075 - Intermediate
• CIS - Intermediate

• strong understanding of data center design and principles - hosting experience a plus
• Ability to plan, scope and estimate work effort to produce high quality deliverables on time/on budget
• Expert level understanding of network security
• Exceptional interpersonal skills; ability to speak clearly and with authority
• Intellectual curiosity and the ability to learn new concepts quickly and efficiently
• Highly solution focused; strong sense of urgency with a passion for 100% availability

• Experience level:
• Education: Bachelors

• Systems Analysis