Linux Systems Engineer

Company: Prosum2
Location: Glendale
Posted on: September 13, 2020

Job Description:

We are a technology services company that puts people before technology. Yes, we have deep experience consulting, implementing solutions, providing managed services and staffing engagements. But we believe that, by focusing on relationships, we are better able to improve people’s experiences and lives through technology.

Technology is at its best when it complements our natural abilities and enhances our interactions. Which is why we say that, at Prosum, we make technology human.

Job Description Systems Engineers working within the Media Systems and Network Engineering group provide the highest level of performance and availability for the systems, cloud, networks, storage and applications that they build and support. This level of excellence is necessary to ensure that the time and business-critical demands are supported with world-class technology and systems management.

Specific Responsibilities

Design, build and operate scalable systems

Monitor, measure, and tune systems for optimal performance and 24/7 reliability

Investigate, analyze, resolve and document hardware and software problems on a wide range of systems in several data centers

Investigate, analyze, resolve and document software and configuration issues with a variety of public cloud hosted environments

Create and maintain operational documentation pertaining to deployment, management and administrative duties

Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned, including work off-hours on occasion to maximize production uptime.

To fulfill these responsibilities, SPT Systems Engineers typically should have the following personal characteristics:

A generalist who can perform many different tasks.

Able to comfortably multitask (i.e., perform multiple architecting tasks concurrently).

Able to make important decisions given incomplete and conflicting knowledge.

Highly self-directed, being able to both manage and (re)prioritize the multiple concurrent and competing challenges, issues, ambiguities, and contradictions that necessarily occur during the production of the database architecture and design.

Strong analytical problem solving skills.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and thus able to explain and document the systems to their diverse audiences.

A team-building leader with good interpersonal and relationship building skills.

Qualifications Deep knowledge of:

Systems hardware (e.g. blade servers, load balancers, SAN, NAS, and tape libraries).

Operating system administration (e.g. Unix, Linux, OSX, and Windows).

High performance data storage solutions whether SAN, NAS, or Clustered (e.g. Isilon)

Large-scale backup solutions and tape technologies (e.g. Quantum, NetBackup)

Data center, network, and application architectures

Local and Networked File Systems (e.g. NFS, CIFS, AFP, DFS, NTFS, Hadoop)

File Transport Solutions (e.g. Signiant, Aspera, SFTP)

Application and Web Services

Systems Toolsets and protocols (e.g. SNMP, Nagios, tcpdump)

Configuration Management (e.g. Puppet/Chef)

Virtual Environment technologies (e.g. VMWare, OpenStack, CloudStack)

Systems Security (e.g. password domains, patch, monitoring)

Scripting, including PHP, Perl , Python and Ruby (optional)

Automation technologies in Systems

Desired practical experience:

Operating system installation and management

Strong project management and resource planning experience

IP networking including performance based troubleshooting

Installation of large server systems

Routed network installation and management

Qualifications/Education:

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

6+ years in engineering or computer systems

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