Sr. Systems Engineer - SME
- Phoenix, AZ
- $120,000-170,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Position requires a self-starter that can work independently and not wait for instructions
- Applicant must be a motivated analytical problem solver that embraces challenge
- Familiarity with replacing hardware components
- Ability to make occasional trips to Phoenix metro areas data centers, as needed
- Well organized and experienced in documentation, including use of ticketing systems
- Ability to provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior project team members, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and best practices
- Minimum 7 years of experience as an IT Systems Engineer involving Linux environments
- Minimum 7 years of experience in Python development or similar object-oriented programming language (Java, C++, C#, etc)
- Minimum 4 years of experience using Ansible open source configuration management
- Familiar enough with programming to minimally work in most languages
- Demonstrable ability to implement open-source projects for a production environment, ensuring optimal performance, security, and scalability
- Deep understanding of systems integration topics - Hardware, Software, Security, Network (VLAN, DNS, DHCP, Firewall, VPN, Load balancing, etc)
- Troubleshooting (Hardware, Network, Applications)
- Virtualization / Containerization (QEMU/KVM, Docker, Podman, etc)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms
- Active Security Clearance preferred; ability to obtain and maintain up to a Top Secret Clearance
- Installation, configuration, testing and maintenance on major OS distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, RHEL),
- Scripting (Python, Perl, Bash, etc)
- Network proxies and HA solutions (Haproxy, Nginx, keepalived, etc)
- SQL database operation (MySQL, Postgres, etc)
- Storage solutions (raid, zfs, networked block and object level, etc)
- Elasticsearch/Opensearch
- Web applications & servers (Nginx, Apache, uWSGI, flask, node, etc)
- Data streaming / queuing (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc)
- Metrics collection/ monitoring/ visibility (Zabbix, Nagios, Grafana, Graphite/Carbon, Prometheus, InfluxDB, Telegraf, OpenTelemetry, etc)
- Version Control & CI/CD (Git/Gitlab, Gitlab CI/CD, Jenkins, etc)
- Design solutions based on internal and customer requirements
- Build, test, monitor, backup and maintain solutions in production
- Hardware installation, troubleshooting, and replacement (chassis, blades, CPU, RAM, disks, power supplies, cabling, etc.)
- Very rare overnight travel
- $120,000 - $170,000 *depending on experience*
- Health, Dental, Vision, PTO, 401K, Paid Holidays, Sick Leave if required by Law