Job Description
City: Culver City, CA
Onsite/ Hybrid/ Remote: Onsite, 4-5 days a week
Duration:3 months Temp to Hire
Rate Range: $72/hr on W2 depending on experience (no C2C or 1099 or sub-contract)
Work Authorization: GC, USC, All valid EADs except H1b
The Senior Systems Engineer will be a high impact individual contributor under the Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) IT department. As a Senior Systems Engineer, you are a core member of a team accountable for the uptime and management of all global SPE Information Technology Infrastructure.
The Senior Systems Engineer will provide planning, recommendations and be responsible for maintenance of all hardware and software for SPE IT Infrastructure and successful execution of these strategies both internally and externally. In general, responsibilities will include any requirements regarding the infrastructure environment, from day-to-day systems administration to planning and management of the SPE Infrastructure.
Senior level with proven knowledge of server management specific to Linux systems. Automation engineering that lends itself to system management is great. Be able to speak to this experience, great communication, works well with cross-functional teams, etc. Rebuild and re-think infrastructure and make it scalable, such as automate tasks that are manual in today's state.
Responsibilities
- IT Operations Support
- Day to day operations on life-cycle management of on-premises and cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and observability
- Maintain / establish compliant infrastructure as code (IaC) automation best practices leveraging Terraform and Ansible continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline
- Maintain core infrastructure platform availability and security
- Be a key active participant in IT change advisory board to advise on production change impact, acceptance, and event management
- Develop / maintain system and software configuration standards
- Ensure and validate infrastructure backup and restoration
- Identify, resolve, and escalate business issues as appropriate
- Manage internal and external customer relationship
- Manage after hours and on-call support
- Systems Engineering Support
- Life-cycle management of IT infrastructure in accordance with company governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) practices and processes
- Maintain and manage infrastructure key performance indicators (KPIs) for IT business value metrics
- Maintain and manage secure and compliant infrastructure in accordance with company policies
- Maintain and manage SPE compute hardening on all support platforms
- Manage outages, communications, identify root cause and resolve infrastructure within allowed service levels
- Life-cycle management of documented operational procedures and policies
- Collaborate with architecture team to refactor technology stack to increase productivity and efficiency
- Develop and maintain project plans for small to mid-sized systems projects
- Provide oral and written status reports to IT management and customers
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree preferred
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), VMWare Certified Profession (VCP), and AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional or DevOps Engineer) are a plus
- 7+ years of experience as Linux/Unix systems administrator
- 5+ years of experience with virtualization technology (VMWare)
- 5+ years of experience with programming (Python / shell)
- 3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (Ansible / Terraform)
- 2+ years of experience with hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- 3+ years of experience with the Citrix Platform
- 3+ years of experience and knowledge with Networking, Storage Area Network (SAN), Microsoft Windows, Directory Services (Microsoft Active Directory/LDAP), Security and Identity (AAA), and Databases
- High impact player.
- Strong interpersonal skills are required. Ability to work effectively with team members, clients, and other areas of the IT environment.
- Strong written and oral communications.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities, strong decision-making skills and make sound judgment decisions.
- Handle multiple tasks and be flexible in a fast-paced environment.
- Deliver on time.
What We Do
Often, the biggest barrier between setting business objectives and achieving them is talent. Finding technically qualified people when you need them is hard enough. Finding technically qualified people who are the best fit for your organization is tougher. You need a staffing partner with the right expertise who can find the right talent in the right time frame, because your project can’t wait. That’s where we come in.
aKube Inc is committed to leveraging its corporate values and operating model to achieve the highest level of performance and respect within the industry. We have developed a highly efficient delivery model for supporting a wide array of clients with expertise in supporting high-volume contingent worker programs.
