Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer including Vets and Disabled
Your role in helping us shape the future:
Architect, design, engineer, implement and support services and solutions provided by the IT Engineering group (including Virtualization, Datacenter, Servers, Enterprise Storage, Windows & Linux operating systems, User devices, backup, monitoring, core services). Support requirement analysis efforts, guide overall architecture, perform technical evaluations, integrate COTS (Commercial off the shelf) and custom applications, define solutions, develop processes, perform system engineering functions, and provide technical leadership to the IT Engineering team.
Are you up to the challenge?

• Define, implement, and audit computing infrastructure standards and guidelines for company data centers
• Develop and document system architecture and computing infrastructure for company data centers
• Provide production engineering views, strategies, and concepts during application development and on project teams
• Serve as project engineer, systems engineer and/or systems administrator as necessary to support initiatives within the IT Engineering function
• Establish, administer, improve, and standardize system-level architectural design and IT practices for the entire system release cycle in all production areas
• Support strategies, environments, schedules, upgrades, tools, documentation and plans for software and hardware systems that are submitted for production environments
• Assist with the design of in-house and 3rd party solutions development, highly available architecture, and disaster recovery strategies for company operational systems
• Provide engineered technical solutions to complex business and enterprise integration problems
• Perform trending analysis and metrics definition in support of improving operations
• Evaluate systems, performance, and issues to provide recommendations for improvements
• Provide 24x7 On-Call Support to company datacenters on a rotational basis

You should definitely have:

• A bachelor's degree with at least three years of systems engineering experience and in-depth knowledge of systems engineering and system administration best practices
• Previous experience setting up and working with Red Hat or other Linux server OS.
• Prior involvement with software package and deploy methodologies for Linux / Unix environments.
• Familiarity with other Unix OS like Solaris, HP-UX
• Expertise in scripting (Perl, Python, Shell)
• Conversant in highly availability technologies like clustering (Veritas VCS), Load balancing (Citrix NetScaler) and Proxying

It would be nice if you had:

• Experience with container technologies (Docker, Rancher)
• Knowledge of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines

• Familiarity with data centers, their design, and operations

What it's like to work with us:
Intelsat is connecting the world and transforming the satellite and inflight connectivity landscape by reaching beyond the traditional satellite industry. We are defining new products that will open new, profitable markets. We connect the aviation industry and air travelers with innovative technology and applications, and we do it all in a high-energy environment that welcomes the next challenge. To help us reach this goal, you should be a bold thinker who will perform a key role in shaping Intelsat innovation for years to come.

• We emphasize personal and professional growth
• Awesome benefits including PTO, medical, tuition reimbursement, and training
• Flexible work arrangements
• Fun, diverse, and inclusive culture

Other Job Info:

• These statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this job.
• This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of employees assigned to this job.

• This role is subject to ITAR; candidates must be a US Person (this includes US Citizen, Permanent Resident or Protected Individual such as an asylee or refugee).
• These statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this job. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of employees assigned to this job.
• Company description: Intelsat is the largest provider of fixed satellite services worldwide. We enable providers of media, telecom and government services to deliver information and entertainment to people at home, in the office or on the move. On a day-to-day basis, Intelsat supplies video, data and voice connectivity in approximately 200 countries and territories for approximately 1,800 customers, many of which Intelsat has had relationships with for over 30 years. Some of the world's leading media and communications companies, multinational corporations, Internet service providers and government/military organizations hallmark Intelsat's customer base. Customers access capacity through extensive service offerings, which include transponder services, hybrid managed services combining satellite capacity and terrestrial facilities, and channel services.