Senior Systems Engineer

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, 401k, flexible spending account, paid sick leave and paid time off, parental leave, quarterly performance bonus, training, career growth, and education reimbursement programs.

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Ziply Fiber is a local internet service provider dedicated to elevating the connected lives of the communities we serve. We offer the fastest home internet in the nation, are refreshing great customer experience, and affordable plans that put customers in charge.

As our state‑of‑the‑art fiber network expands, so does our need for team members who can help us grow and realize our goals.

The Senior Systems Engineer will have large company engineering and application experience who is adept at working with development and system administration teams to implement, maintain and troubleshoot Ziply Fiber’s expanding systems infrastructure with a focus on automation and efficiency.

You will design and maintain Hypervisor Clusters, Kubernetes Clusters, Linux and Windows virtual machines, storage area networks, and infrastructure automation.

This role provides technical leadership, mentors other engineers, and leads cross‑functional initiatives to improve platform reliability, security, and efficiency.

The Essential Duties and Responsibilities listed below are a range of duties performed by the employee and not intended to reflect all duties performed.

• Lead the design and implementation of complex automation and infrastructure solutions.
• Serve as a technical subject matter expert and provide technical guidance across teams.
• Mentor and support the development of other engineers through coaching, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Conduct technical research and maintain viable knowledge of technology trends, new software, and best practices.
• Provide training to other network domain teams for the adoption of automation capabilities.

• Contributes to the development of custom code to integrate platform components, fill tooling gaps and solve potentially unique situations.
• Perform development, testing, implementation, and review of complex automation solutions related to provisioning, monitoring, and configuring a network and infrastructure environment.

• Automating operational reports e.g., SLA reporting, utilization statistics, and network forecasting.
• Establishing system/data integrations to enhance existing or establish new processes.

• Drive standards, best practices, and architectural decisions for systems infrastructure and automation.
• Provide peer review and guidance on code and perform quality assurance tasks.
• Responsible for creation of and contribution to processes, standards, technical documentation, and design diagrams.
• Write and maintain technical standards and documentation.

• Able to work closely with Info Sec team to address security and vulnerability related issues.

• Must be available to work regular business hours Pacific Standard Time.
• Must also be available to work on‑call, evenings and weekends as needed.

• Performs other duties as required to support the business and evolving organization.

• High school diploma or GED.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar field, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of five (5) years of engineering experience working with Linux/Unix systems with a heavy emphasis on Red Hat and Ubuntu operating systems in a large VM environment.
• Minimum of seven (7) years working in a large, geographically distributed server architecture.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of experience working for…