Sr Systems Engineer

Overview

Requisition : 35094

At Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies, our 8,000+ global associates are committed to impacting the lives of patients around the world. We make medical devices and related products used to collect, separate, manufacture and process various components of blood and cells. We touch a patient’s life every second of every day and are committed to advancing healthcare with heart. Join us to shape the future and create yours alongside Terumo.

Senior Systems Engineer

Position provides technical leadership and expertise in the design, engineering, automation and lifecycle management of hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure platforms. Leads the development of scalable, secure, and highly available systems using infrastructure-as-code where applicable, automation frameworks, and modern observability practices. Collaborates cross-functionally to deliver resilient, cost-effective platform solutions aligned with business goals and cybersecurity objectives. Provides mentoring and training to team members and internal customers.

• Operates by promoting information technology through activities such as analyzing business/technical needs; designing, building, testing, implementing, maintaining, and documenting solutions that ensure high uptime
• Proactively analyzes technology stack for end-of-life, deprecated and non-supported solutions and implements appropriate solutions to ensure reliability and stability
• Provides subject matter expertise and escalated operational support for resolving incidents involving cloud applications, hybrid storage solutions, enterprise grade hardware, operating systems and on premises applications
• Administer and support varied technologies that include Microsoft, Nutanix, VMware, Everpure, Cohesity, Net App Cisco, and Dell
• Develops and implement technology risk assessments, business continuity and disaster recovery plans
• Creates and maintains procedures and documentation for backup and restoration of host operating systems and virtual machines
• Design and implement processes for monitoring all datacenter end points, to include improvements on mean time to recover (MTTR) and adhering to specific SLA response time
• Define, document and implement patch/upgrade procedures which include testing and production promotion process
• Reduce manual operations through scripting and orchestration
• Optimize cloud resource consumption and cost efficiency

• Ensure all datacenter and cloud systems comply with Terumo corporate Cybersecurity requirements
• Provides technical leadership during incidents (outages), and regular maintenance activities
• Provide after-hours support for cloud and Infrastructure related emergencies, including occasional weekend maintenance
• Shares on-call rotation responsibility with team members for 24-hour problem resolution
• Ability to work within a team and provide leadership in the design, deployment, and support of infrastructure systems
• Performs majority of duties following the agile project methodology

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent education and experience sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job.

Minimum 5 years’ experience working in System Administration/Engineering, preferably in a hybrid cloud environment.

• Expertise in designing, deploying and maintaining enterprise server virtualization (Nutanix or VMware) in a multiple node/host configuration
• Strong knowledge of network architectures, topology, TCP/IP protocols and configuration
• Proficient in LAN routing and switching design configuration and troubleshooting (VLANs, IP Subnetting, 802.1Q trunks, Azure VNETs)
• Implementation and management of external SAN and/or NAS storage arrays
• Ability to design, implement and manage DNS configuration on both Windows and Linux operating systems for complex resolution requirements
• Solid experience in designing and implementing appropriate enterprise level redundancy along with formalized backup and recovery solutions
• Proficiency in analyzing and optimizing modern datacenter infrastructure to align with technology best…