Remote Senior Systems Engineer

Summary

Join our hosting team and help us deliver high levels of availability, performance, and security to our clients. As a junior or senior systems engineer, you'll gain experience across various technologies, solve interesting problems, make improvements, and be recognized for making a difference.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with server hosting (e.g. data center) infrastructure and (ideally) management with Cisco UCS blades
• Hands-on storage/SAN deployment and (ideally) management experience with EMC Unity, Data Domain, Avamar
• Hands-on Cisco and F5 networking deployment and management experience with Cisco Nexus 7000/9000, ASA Firewalls, F5 LTM and DNS load balancers, route domains, and contexts
• Hands-on VMware deployment and management experience with VMware 6.x/7.x
• Hands-on Linux deployment and management experience with RHEL 7.x
• Hands-on Windows domain and AD management experience
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Strong scripting skills
• Enthusiasm and talent for acquiring complex technical skills
• Good customer service attitude
• Knowledge of service monitoring and alerting (Nagios, Cacti preferred)
• Knowledge of configuration management (Puppet and/or Red Hat Satellite preferred)
• Scripting for automation using technologies (e.g. Powershell, Puppet, Ansible, Python)
• ITIL knowledge – principles and application
• Ability to support and develop junior colleague

Responsibilities

• Work with our co-location partners to design appropriate cage, rack, and server layouts and ensure the ongoing provision of space, power, and cooling in support of existing and forecasted solutions
• Work with the engineering/architecture teams to design solutions so as to maximize performance, efficiency, and operability of hosted solutions
• Lead and/or participate in the provisioning and deployment of server, network, and other hosting-related equipment, including hands-on build and configuration as/when required
• Participate in the deployment of new applications and/or changes, ensuring that all service components are documented and monitored and integrated into the company’s operational processes
• Perform hardware qualification testing on new hardware platforms and certify them for production deployments
• Work with stakeholders across the solutions lifecycle to ensure that pre-operational sign-offs are obtained, so as to ensure that solutions can be operated in a way that meets or exceeds performance targets e.g. security, availability, and response times
• Assist with the troubleshooting of integration issues
• Consulting with technical stakeholders (including customers) on the delivery of hosted solutions
• Hands-on administration and maintenance of hosted solutions and related infrastructure (firewalls, switches, servers, storage, etc.) including pro-active identification and fixing of potential incidents, backup management, etc
• Participate in the definition, documentation, operation, and continuous improvement of operational processes e.g. ITIL-based processes such as incident, change, problem, and configuration management, and the smooth integration of these with wider company processes and systems
• Define, implement, monitor, and report on metrics that are required for the delivery of highly available hosted services, as well as to meet the needs of the wider organization e.g. management, engineering, customer services, and our customers
• Provide technical support for all areas of hosted services, including participation on a 24x7 on-call rota; ensure the timely resolution of incidents and/or problems affecting hosted solutions and deploy approved changes and/or updates as required
• Further enhance the automation of hosting-related processes e.g. deployment of changes, deployment of new services, inventory management, security scanning, service level reporting, etc