Senior System Engineer (AWS, Linux)

We prefer contract to hire but would be open to direct hire candidates. This position requires being 100% on site in La Mirada during training for the first few weeks; after that, it will be remote, and will need to be on site once a month in La Mirada.

The Senior Systems Engineer designs, builds, implements, and supports elegant systems and systems infrastructure solutions to advance the company's organizational goals and objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Handle all aspects of systems deployment projects with a focus on systems infrastructure, including initiating purchase requests, developing implementation plans, defining methods of procedure (MOP), and executing work.
• Participate in on-call rotation for escalation support of technical issues, supporting the 24x7x365 production environment.
• Develop life-cycle plans for building and scaling services, updating the systems infrastructure, and retiring legacy solutions.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation and procedures.
• Establish and recommend systems infrastructure policies and standards for the team and organization.
• Develop monitoring and trending systems to predict capacity issues within the systems infrastructure.
• Mentor junior team members, providing technical & procedural guidance, and cultivating a culture of knowledge transfer within the team.
• Track and work requests via ticketing system; perform triage and provide resolution for both internal and external customers.
• Deploy and support hardware and software for workstations and servers, including troubleshooting, component replacement, auxiliary/peripheral installation, and software installation.
• Audit and deploy OS, application security, and feature updates on equipment managed by Systems.
• Monitor performance, security, and availability of the server environment. Recommend improvements in technologies and practices to increase these metrics.
• Support the organization's hosted VoIP environment for local and remote users.
• Assist leadership in defining and enforcing organizational policies related to Systems and Tools.

Preference will be given to candidates with the following:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience.
• Proven experience and demonstrable success with designing, maintaining, and implementing complex systems environments.
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a dynamic environment and balance multiple projects in order to complete them successfully and within timelines.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with a focus on high-quality customer service.
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience administering DNS in a multi-domain environment.
• Experience administering common infrastructure applications (e.g., DHCP servers, web servers, email servers, mailing list servers, etc.).
• Experience with container administration like Kubernetes or similar.
• Hands-on systems administration experience in a multi-vendor, multi-OS environment (Linux, Windows, OS X, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Elastic).
• Experience with CentOS and Red Hat Linux virtualization methods.
• Understanding of scalability, redundancy, and failover in architecture design and implementation.
• Strong familiarity with TCP/IP networking preferred.
• Experience with programming and/or building systems and network automation tools using Perl, Python, PHP, Ansible, and shell scripting preferred.
• Experience with GitLab and DevOps methodologies preferred.
• Experience with ELK stack preferred.
• Cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, Terraform, HashiCorp Vault, Google Workspace.

To apply please email your resume to .

Pay Range: $140,000.00 - $160,000.00 Annually.