Senior System Engineer

Senior System Engineer

Optomi, in partnership with a leader in digital media, is seeking a Senior System Engineer to code and deploy systems, new technologies, and best practices in the cloud using self-healing, infrastructure-as-code, security, and automation patterns. This candidate will collaborate and provide technical leadership within and across teams, and have extensive experience with public cloud-AWS, Azure, or Google. Also, the right candidate will have experience with terraform, automation products such as GitLab or Ansible, and enterprise environment work experience!

What the right candidate will enjoy:

• The opportunity to work in an enterprise environment!
• 2024 Best Employers: Excellence in Health and Well-being Award!
• Hybrid work environment!

Experience of the right candidate:

• Configuration management and orchestration (e.g. Chef, Terraform, Cloud Formation).
• One or more languages in your skillset (e.g. GO, Python, Java, Ruby).
• Containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, Elastic Container Service).
• Skilled in Cloud/PaaS Environments (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud Compute).
• Thorough knowledge of continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins).
• UNIX/Linux administration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, & security.
• 5 years of experience in technical operations or systems reliability engineering.
• Equivalent experience in technical operations or software engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field preferred.
• Minimum 3+ years operating complex, large-scale Enterprise guest-facing Applications or web sites.
• Prefer 5+ years operating complex, large-scale Enterprise guest-facing Applications or web sites.
• Experienced with Distributed Data Platforms.
• Experience with AWS, Google or similar cloud computing environments.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Experience working in a high capacity, highly scalable mission-critical web serving environment.
• Excellent judgment, problem resolution, team building, negotiation, and decision-making skills as well as the ability to work under continual deadline pressure.
• Experience with F5 load balancing helpful.
• UNIX/LINUX and some Windows server experience, including expertise in system installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, preventative maintenance, capacity planning, monitoring, and security procedures.
• Web (IIS, Apache) and Java application (Tomcat, Jboss, etc) server expertise including installation, administration, configuration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, preventative maintenance, capacity planning, monitoring, and security procedures.

Responsibilities of the right candidate:

• Code, and deploy systems, new technologies, and best practices in the cloud using self-healing, infrastructure-as-code, security, and automation patterns.
• Develop useful telemetry, alerts, and response to identify and address reliability risks.
• Collaborate and provide technical leadership within and across teams.
• Code, and deploy systems, define and establish best practices in cloud hosting environments using self-healing, infrastructure-as-code, security, and automation patterns.
• Develop useful telemetry, alerts, and response to identify and address reliability risks.
• Participate in on-call rotation with other engineering teams.
• Identify, experiment, & evangelize new technologies, ideas, and best practices across the broader engineering community.
• Develop useful telemetry, alerts, and response to identify and address reliability risks.
• Participate in on-call rotation with other engineering teams.
• Identify, experiment, & evangelize new technologies, ideas, and best practices across the broader engineering community
• Develop useful telemetry, alerts, and response to identify and address reliability risks.
• Participate in on-call rotation with other engineering teams.
• Identify, experiment, & evangelize new technologies, ideas, and best practices across the broader engineering community.