Position Summary

Our client has 12 openings for Systems Engineers in Applications Support. Positions range from Entry-Level to Very Senior.

Systems Engineer Position Summary:
• Act as technical expert in the Digital Operations team responsible for maintaining and supporting the digital safe environment including performing upgrades, configuring systems, monitoring, troubleshooting, and providing proactive solutions to problems.
• Must be able to work on a variety of systems covering a complex assortment of software and hardware configurations.
• Evaluate systems components, systems software, networking infrastructure and hardware peripherals for reliability, performance, scalability and security.
• Analyze and tune systems for performance, throughput, resource utilization, high availability, and scalability.
• May be involved with data restoration projects using enterprise level data protection products such as TSM, Netbackup, BackupExec, and Legato Networker.
• May be involved with database management and administration using PostgreSQLand/or MySQL.
• Document and publish installation, configuration, operational and troubleshooting procedures for use by support personnel.
• Assist in departmental planning by making specific recommendations for improvement in the areas of performance, resource utilization, high availability, scalability, systems management and operations.
• Work with other departments within the organization to meet company wide goals.

  Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• Must have at least 7 years systems administration experience managing Unix systems (Linux, Solaris, AIX, etc.), preferably Linux
• Experience with Xen and/or KVM virtualization technology. Hands on experience with networking technologies and protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, ipvadsm, iptables, haproxy, keepalivd
• Should have aexperience administering a relational database or hands on experience with SQL (DB2, MySql, PostgreSQL, Oracle).
• Experience with Perl, PHP, software development (Java,C,C++)and shell scripting
• Experience with email technologies (Exchange, Notes, sendmail, postfix, Apache James).
• Familiarity with messaging protocols and standards such as SMTP, RFC2821, RFC2822 is a plus.
• Experience related to disaster recovery, business continuity, backup systems, tape libraries, SAN, and NAS knowledge is a plus.