Senior System Engineer - People Tech Group : Job Details

Request Name: Systems Engineer - Systems Engineer V

Request Type: Competitive Sourced

Work Location: SEA54-Apollo (Seattle, WA, US)

City & State: Seattle, Washington

Job Description:

The successful engineer in this role will:

• Understand how commodity servers, operating systems, and networks function, perform, and scale.
• Possess superb troubleshooting, project management, and problem analysis skills.
• Drive technical innovation and efficiency in infrastructure operations via automation.
• Design server monitoring and management solutions using automation and self-repair.
• Create processes that enhance operational workflow and provide positive customer impact.
• Dive deep to resolve problems at their root, identifying failure patterns and implementing long-term solutions through simplification and automation.
• Avoid reinventing the wheel and prefer simple, repeatable solutions over complex, failure-prone ones.
• Recognize and adopt best practices in documentation, testing, security, operational support at scale, and efficient use of resources.
• Develop appropriate metrics to demonstrate performance improvements in operational efficiency.

Core Requirements:

• In-depth knowledge of and experience with Oracle PeopleSoft infrastructure.
• Relentless passion for frugality and creative problem-solving.
• Strong system troubleshooting skills.
• Proficiency and experience in automation using Perl, Python, and shell scripting.
• Good understanding of standard internet protocols: Ethernet, ARP, IP, ICMP, UDP, TCP, SSL, DNS, HTTP, etc.
• Demonstrable grasp of security best practices in server configuration, tool development, and access controls.
• Experience in building SQL queries.

Highly Desirable Attributes:

• Knowledge of C, C++, or Java.
• Familiarity with version control systems such as Git, Mercurial, or SVN.
• Understanding of cloud technologies and infrastructure.
• Experience deploying or managing servers in large-scale, geographically distributed environments.
• Understanding and experience in managing and monitoring large-scale disk subsystems.
• Operational knowledge of common enterprise switching and routing platforms.