IT Systems Engineer

About The Role

The Staff Systems Engineer will work with our team to support a wide range of IT systems and services, including the manufacturing virtualization environment. In this role you will design, implement, and manage server applications, work in a fast‑paced environment, and apply technical knowledge to solve issues across multiple IT environments.

• Participate in projects and engineer new systems.
• Maintain and develop all Linux infrastructure for a 24/7 uptime service.
• Monitor performance of critical servers and applications and perform corrections as needed.
• Manage best practices on Linux systems and services across the manufacturing floor.
• Upgrade and maintain hardware/software in the IT infrastructure.
• Engage and manage 3rd‑party vendors to achieve expedient resolution.
• Coordinate and implement software upgrades, patches, and hotfixes on Linux infrastructure.
• Create and maintain system documentation for specifications, designs, procedures, and logs.
• Document all processes, system changes, fixes, and issues.
• Collaborate with other teams to develop automation strategies and deployment processes.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 5+ years of working experience as a Linux Administrator.
• Experience with designing and managing high‑availability services.
• Experience with system engineering on an enterprise‑level, highly integrated, complex IT environment.
• Experience with Linux encryption, Samba, Bash (shell scripts), Perl, Python scripting, Linux patching, dependency resolution and performance improvements.
• Ability to evaluate security requirements and perform system hardening.
• Enhance processes and procedures to perform automated daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes.
• Experience with Linux services, including but not limited to DHCP, TFTP, DNS, SSH.
• Experience with CentOS, Ubuntu and Red Hat Linux.
• Linux certification a plus (RHCE, RHCT, LPIC, Linux+).
• Experience with creating Ansible Playbooks and/or running and troubleshooting Playbooks.
• Experience managing, installing, and configuring complex virtual environments with High Availability in VMWare ESXi.
• Experience supporting enterprise storage solutions including vSANs, LUNs, Net App, QNAP, NAS, Pure Storage, EMC.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving and decision‑making capabilities.
• Support daily backup and recovery operations.

• Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee as defined by U.S. law.
• Must be eligible to obtain an export control license or license exception from the Bureau of Industry and Commerce & U.S. Department of Commerce.

ZT Group Int’l. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. ZT Systems provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.