Senior Systems Engineer - Services

Responsibilities

• Co-design, implement, and manage applications and services for hybrid virtualization and containerized platforms based on OpenStack, VMware VCF, and/or Red Hat OpenShift ensuring platform stability, performance, and compliance with industry standards and best practices.
• Collaborate with architecture and engineering teams on technology stack component evaluation and selection ensuring solutions are designed following best practices and optimized from both functional and non-functional perspectives.
• Develop and implement plans to enhance the reliability of the applications and services infrastructure, addressing potential points of failure and ensuring high availability of services.
• Collaborate with relevant teams to conduct regular performance assessments and implement improvements based on findings.
• Prepare and participate in complex changes to production environments supporting operational teams.
• Develop auto-test and automation solutions for cloud platform using tools like Jenkins and Selenium along with other configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and GitLab CI/CD.
• Provide L3 expert support including on-call shifts with focus on immediate incident management and resolutions, such as outages, breaches, and system failures.
• Write and maintain relevant documentation ensuring completeness and quality.
• Prepare and provide trainings for operational teams in the related technical domains.
• Collaborate with security management teams to ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats.
• Work closely with process management and operational teams and contribute to process development standardizing collaboration framework and improving collaboration efficiency.

Qualifications

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering, or other relevant technology field.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in Linux Environments and 5+ years of experience in a Senior Systems engineering role.
• Experience in designing, deploying, and managing Kubernetes and/or OpenShift clusters with a deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture and ecosystem.
• Experience in managing large-scale public or private cloud environments and/or work in a cloud service provider environment with exposure to high-load systems is highly desirable.
• Experience working with virtualization technologies like OpenStack and/or VMware, computing technologies such as x86 hardware, OS, KVM/ESXi, and orchestration services is highly desirable.
• In-depth knowledge of frontend, application, and middleware technologies such as Web (Apache, Nginx), Kafka, RabbitMQ. Experience with deploying and managing scalable solutions that support enterprise-level applications.
• Proficient in identity and access management (IAM) protocols such as SAML, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect, with experience integrating these protocols for secure single sign-on (SSO) implementations across a variety of platforms and services.