Lead Systems Engineer Hybrid

Position: Lead Systems Engineer - (Hybrid)
** Resp & Qualifications*
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* PURPOSE:

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* Defines, designs and develops system requirements.  Performs trade-off analysis of performance, life-cycle cost, risk, producibility, and other system or program requirements.  Assesses architecture and current hardware limitations, defines and designs system specifications, and evaluates input/output processes and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility.  Coordinates design of subsystems and integration of total system.  Defines system support requirements to include monitoring, capacity, staffing and patching/updating.  

Analyzes and resolves program support deficiencies.  Conducts independent technical investigations in systems design.

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* ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

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* + Installs, tunes, upgrades, troubleshoots, and maintains all computer systems relevant to the supported applications including all necessary tasks to perform operating system administration, user account management, disaster recovery strategy and networking configuration.

+ Develop and implement techniques to prevent system problems, troubleshoots incidents to recover services, and support the root cause analysis.

+ Evaluates new systems by performing in-depth tests, including end-user reviews. Researches software and related products to support recommendations and purchasing. Determines systems integration issues by evaluating components; developing and completing performance tests; analyzing test data; studying project requirements; analyzing user and potential user input; evaluating similar and related products and systems. Develop system automation and system integration of business processes.

+ Improves engineering job knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.

+ Acts as a mentor for junior and senior team members.

** SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY:*
* Leads a team utilizing a matrix management system.

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* QUALIFICATIONS:

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* ** Education Level:
** Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science OR in lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.

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* Licenses/Certifications:

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* + AWS certifications, minimum of One is required.

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* Experience:

** 8 years proven success overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software systems and applications.

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* Preferred Qualifications:

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* + Minimum of 10 years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in Automation and Administration.

+ Previous Linux System administration is required.

+ Must be well versed in writing Terraform plans, Ansible playbooks, and Python code.

+ Other experience with different automation tools and languages instead of Python to code infrastructure for automation is acceptable.

+ Must be well versed in writing Linux Bash scripts.

+ Must Have Hands on current Implementation and Production level experience AWS Cloud.

+ Hands on experience with Automation and Infrastructure Provisioning is a must  Our goal is to only provision infrastructure with code.

+ Current and actual Production level experience with Terraform and Ansible is Required.

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Experience with integrating other tools like Cyber Ark, Datadog, F5, Web Seal, Venafi is desired.

+ Must have hands on experience in writing Lambda functions preferably in Python (Boto3).

+ Must have strong hands-on knowledge of AWS platform and services but not limited to VPC, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambdas, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, EKS etc.

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Experience with AWS CLI is desired.

+ Minimum of One AWS certification is required.

+ Hands-on experience with Containers, Amazon EKS is a big plus.

+ A great understanding of various Dev Ops tool chains, including Git/repo, Crucible, Jenkins etc.

+ Solid understanding and experience with a CI/CD tool chain.

+ 10+ years of overall experience in IT including hands-on Development and Systems engineering background.

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Experience with Datacenter migration and Enterprise Cloud transformation efforts.

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Experience with SRE principles and transformation.

+ 3+ years of…