Company:
Eastern Bank
Location: Lynn
Closing Date: 01/11/2024
Salary: £100 - £125 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
This position is a senior member of the team that is responsible for design, configuration, implementation, and support of all system platforms, cloud-based infrastructure, and enterprise storage solutions. The Senior Systems Engineer works with all technology teams, external solution providers, and internal business unit resources to design secure, scalable, extensible technology-based solutions, then build, implement, and support those solutions.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Design systems and solutions as part of technology and business line-sponsored initiatives, leveraging leading industry practices.
- Work with team members to procure, build, and implement servers, systems, and processes to support the design.
- Serve as a technical mentor to staff members on the Systems Engineering team, assisting in ad-hoc and formal coaching and development efforts.
- Help guide the platform and security direction for the organization by monitoring industry trends, facilitating proof-of-concept exercises, and recommending specific technologies to pursue.
- Develop, document, and enforce system monitoring and alerting standards for all platforms through automation via scripting and applications.
- Serve as the primary escalation channel for support-related server and application issues.
PROBLEM SOLVING & DECISION MAKING:
- Must be able to synthesize multiple data points across a number of business and technical domains.
- Must be analytical, well organized, and self-directed.
- Able to make recommendations to manager on decisions of complex, multifaceted nature.
- Independently drives and coordinates solutions to complex matters.
REQUIREMENTS:
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of enterprise technology operational experience.
Skills/Knowledge:
- Must have senior level experience implementing and managing various technology projects and platforms.
- Exceptional working knowledge of server operating systems (Windows & Linux).
- Experience building, implementing, and managing servers and applications in a cloud-hosted environment such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience in cloud-based monitoring such as Log Analytics, New Relic, Datadog along with on-premise monitoring solutions such as Splunk, SolarWinds, etc.
- Strong skills in TCP/IP networking and security concepts are required.
- Experience in managing and configuring load balancers such as F5, Citrix, etc.
- Ability to manage enterprise and cloud-based storage solutions.
- Experience with virtualization platforms, such as Nutanix AHV, Azure, and ESX.
- Experience with automation through enterprise distribution and configuration management platforms such as SCCM, Ansible, Jenkins, Ivanti, Tanium, Puppet, or Chef.
- Familiarity with cloud concepts such as containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud management platforms.
- Senior level experience in one or more scripting languages such as PowerShell, Perl, Python.
- Experience interfacing with APIs and documenting and commenting functions within the code along with creating runbooks.
- Using source code repositories such as GIT and understanding how to leverage them.
- Experience identifying issues and determining root cause via a consistent, logical approach.
- Demonstrated ability to implement and support scalable technology solutions.
- Ability to manage small to medium sized technology projects.
- The ability to manage multiple assigned tasks.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability and willingness to be on-call and respond to emergencies.
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