Principal Systems Engineer (RedHat/AWS) Hybrid

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Being a member of the Information Technology business unit, the Lead Systems Engineer is primarily responsible for engineering and supporting in memory caching and search solutions primarily on Linux as well as in the Cloud.
• Products used and supported in this effort include, but are not limited to, Pivotal (VMware) GemFire, Apache Solr, Redis Enterprise, and Elasticsearch.

• Installation and configuration of Pivotol (VMware) GemFire, Apache Solr and Zookeeper, Redis Enterprise (from RedisLabs, Inc.) and Elasticsearch (in AWS and on-premises)
• Work with development staff and team mates to design caching and search solutions
• Assist development staff in solving application issues with respect to use of GemFire, Solr, Redis Enterprise and Elasticsearch
• Provide immediate support for production GemFire, Solr and Redis clusters, and Elasticsearch
• Analyze Java performance and capacity statistics and provide recommendations to improve performance
• Maintain and author utilities and plugins in Java
• Maintain and author administrative shell scripts
• Provide on call support as needed
• Provide support for weekend implementation and Disaster Recovery tests
• Build system documentation and diagrams

• Minimum of 5 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred with Masters or equivalent experience
• Experience with products such as Pivotal (VMware) GemFire, Apache Solr, Redis Enterprise, and Elasticsearch.