Job Description :
Position Title: Senior Systems Engineer - AZ- 77631
Phoenix, AZ - IT - AZDOR - Information Technology - Senior Systems Engineer (AZ- 77631)
Duration: 8 Months +
Location: 1600 W. Monroe, Phoenix AZ 85007 ( Local Only Candidates Welcome to Apply!)
Only W2 Candidates Welcome to Apply!
Additional screening requirement - candidate will eventually need to obtain fingerprint clearance card once the process has been finalized with AZDOR. They will still be able to start with the cleared background and tax check only, but will need to obtain fingerprint clearance in the future. Continued employment at that point will be contingent on clearing the fingerprinting.
Description of Duties
Communicate clearly with peers as well as management and provide technical leadership to junior admins
Perform hands-on analysis of the production systems, fault resolution, capacity planning and root cause analysis for critical issues
Analyze and resolve performance issues, capacity issues
Proactively monitor the systems to ensure high availability services with minimum downtime
Participate in on-call rotation supporting systems after-hours, weekends and holidays
Manage and escalate cases to vendors for problem resolution
Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning
Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required
Build tools to automate processes and operate production systems
Act and work both independently and in a team environment
Performs all other job related duties as requested
Expert technical leadership in the design, implementation and management of our Red Hat Linux RHEL 8 based environment
Management of AWS components
Strong understanding of data center design and principles - hosting experience a plus
Ability to plan, scope and estimate work effort to produce high quality deliverables on time/on budget
Expert level understanding of Microsoft active directory principles and design
Expert level of VMWare and datacenter infrastructure design
Exceptional interpersonal skills; ability to speak clearly and with authority
Intellectual curiosity and the ability to learn new concepts quickly and efficiently
Highly solution focused; strong sense of urgency with a passion for 100% availability
Experienced at automation using Ansible playbooks
MS powershell or similar scripting language
Position Level
Senior
Advanced Skill Level in the following Technologies
Red Hat RHEL8
AWS
vSphere 7
Powershell
Ansible
Update Manager VmWare
Intermediate Skill Level in the following Technologies
Converged Infrastructure