Senior Engineer, Systems Engineering

Job Purpose

The Senior Engineer, Systems Engineering is responsible for creating and maintaining availability and performance of legacy OpenVMS environments. Knowledge of maintaining Linux and Windows servers, in non-production, and production environments would be highly beneficial. This individual works as part of a results-oriented service delivery team and assists configuration analysts, release engineers, developers, and operations teams. Additionally, the Engineer performs root cause analysis of problems, selects, and implements automation tools, and actively participates in deeply technical discourse.

Responsibilities

• Respond to and assist in production operations in a 24/7 environment
• Provide technical analysis, resolve problems, and propose solutions
• Provide support to, and coordinate with, developers, operations staff, release engineers, and end-users
• Educate and mentor team members and operations staff
• Participate in a weekly on-call rotation for after-hours support

Knowledge and Experience

• 5+ years of experience with the OpenVMS Operating System
• Solid experience with HPE Itanium Blade servers
• Solid experience coding with DCL
• Strong understanding of VMS networking including TCP/IP, DECnet and logical link devices
• Strong understanding of VMS disk and filesystem management
• Familiarity with SAN attached storage and device management
• Familiarity with Active Directory and DNS, Bind, DHCP, Infoserver LDAP
• Demonstrable knowledge of multi-tiered, highly available, and resilient application design
• Knowledge of horizontal and vertical scaling for performance and high availability
• Understanding of virtualization and experience with VMWare
• Top-tier analytics and problem solving
• Ability to work in a service-oriented team environment
• Experience with project Management, organization, and time management
• Customer focused and dedicated to the best possible user experience
• Effective communicator with both technical and business resources

Preferred

• Degree in engineering discipline or equivalent experience in Systems Engineering
• Intermediate understanding of application and server virtualization
• Experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef, Ansible or an equivalent
• Ability to perform network analysis with tools, tcpdump, wireshark, tshark