System Engineer

Title Job Description 813333 System Engineer

System Engineer - Herndon, VA (Onsite)

Yakshna Solutions, Inc, (YSI) is a CMMI Level 3 assessed, ISO 9001, 20000:1, 27001 certified, woman-owned small business enterprises, headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, USA. YSI provides professional IT solutions and services to business corporations and government organizations. YSI is committed to serve its business communities as a leading IT vendor providing innovative, quality, and cost-effective IT business solutions and services.

We offer a competitive benefits package that includes the following: 401(k), health, dental, and vision insurance, Life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, paid time off, training, and professional development assistance.

YSI is seeking a System Engineer with hands-on experience supporting Windows and Linux environments, cloud infrastructure, application hosting, Dev Ops deployments, virtualization, and IT security systems. The candidate will work with our software development and IT teams to maintain development, test, production, and corporate infrastructure.

• Administer and maintain Windows Server and Linux-based systems.
• Monitor servers, applications, services, storage, CPU, memory, and system performance and troubleshoot infrastructure-related issues.
• Install, configure, patch, upgrade, and maintain Windows and Linux operating systems.
• Support website and web application hosting environments, including IIS, Apache, and Nginx.
• Configure and maintain SSL/TLS certificates, DNS records, application bindings, and web server configurations.
• Support deployment and maintenance of web applications across development, test, UAT, and production environments.
• Work with Azure Dev Ops repositories, pipelines, build/release processes, and deployment workflows.
• Support CI/CD deployments and troubleshoot build and deployment failures.
• Build, deploy, and maintain containerized applications using Docker and Docker Compose.
• Administer and support AWS cloud environments, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Cloud Watch, Route 53, load balancers, security groups, and related services.
• Provision, configure, monitor, resize, patch, back up, and maintain AWS virtual machines and supporting infrastructure.
• Administer virtualized environments using technologies such as VMware and Proxmox.
• Create, configure, clone, snapshot, back up, restore, and monitor virtual machines.
• Support and maintain corporate and server security solutions, including firewalls, endpoint protection, antivirus/anti-malware, web filtering, and related security tools.
• Monitor security alerts and coordinate investigation and remediation of endpoint, server, and network security issues.
• Assist with vulnerability remediation, operating system hardening, patch management, and security configuration.
• Manage user and system access, permissions, service accounts, and administrative privileges based on organizational security requirements.
• Support backup, recovery, system availability, and disaster recovery activities.
• Maintain infrastructure and system documentation, including configurations, deployment procedures, troubleshooting guides, and inventory.
• Work closely with software developers to troubleshoot application, server, network, database connectivity, and deployment-related issues.
• Perform routine system health checks and proactively identify infrastructure and security issues.
• Provide technical support and participate in troubleshooting and incident resolution as needed

• 1-5 years of hands-on experience in system administration, cloud infrastructure, Dev Ops, or a related technical role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology,…