Systems Engineer Job Description Sample Template
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Systems Engineer Job Summary
We are currently seeking a systems engineer to work within our team, helping to build out, maintain, and troubleshoot our infrastructure. He/she must be equipped and able to work in a dynamic and rapidly expanding environment. This person will serve as part of a talented team of engineers who collectively demonstrate excellent technical competence, reliability in delivering mission-critical infrastructure, and who continually ensure the highest levels of accessibility, optimization, and security. Qualified systems engineers applicants will have a strong background in IT, computer systems engineering, or systems engineering and analysis.
Systems Engineer Duties and Responsibilities
- Ability to manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure
- Oversight of infrastructure including installing, configuring, testing and maintaining operating systems, application software and system management tools
- Ability to see potential issues and proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure accessibility
- Monitor and test performance of applications, foreseeing potential bottlenecks and identifying possible solutions
- Ability to work with developers to implement those fixes
- Continual maintenance of security, including backup and redundancy strategies
- Competency in writing and maintaining custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower downtime due to required human intervention
- Desire to work alongside the team to help design information and operational support systems
- Consistently and successfully provide 2nd and 3rd level support
- Excellence in communication as a liaison with vendors and other IT personnel to resolve issues
Systems Engineer Requirements and Qualifications
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a similar field
- Proven working experience in the above fields including installing, configuring and troubleshooting UNIX /Linux based environments
- Evidence of experience in the administration and performance tuning of application stacks (e.g., Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, Ruby, NGINX)
- Significant Cloud experience, preferably in AWS
- Evidence of experience with virtualization and containerization (e.g., VMware, Virtual Box)
- Proven ability to successfully and efficiently monitor systems
- Experience with automation software in order to optimize efficacy (e.g., Puppet, CFEngine, Chef)
- Proven scripting skills (e.g., shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python)
- Strong networking knowledge (OSI network layers, TCP/IP)
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