We are looking for Senior Systems Engineer

Job title: Senior System Engineer

Location: New Hampshire

Work Status: Full time

Summary:

The Senior Systems Engineer will serve as the lead technician for all systems related to our client's server, network, cloud and hosted infrastructure environments both physical and virtual. The engineer will work directly with the IT Manager and IT Operations team members to recommend and implement solutions that provide high availability, redundancy by following industry best practices as they relate to information security and availability. This is primarily a Windows Server environment with some Linux systems present.

The successful candidate will be able to look at simple and complex systems environments to troubleshoot any number of problems including, but not limited to, firewall issues, Windows Active Directory complexities, DNS, and SSL certificate administration. The candidate will need the skills and flexibility to work on a new cloud deployment one day and help to troubleshoot a networking or Active Directory issue the next. The AWS ecosystem is highly ingrained in our everyday work, from load balancers EC2 instances and S3 buckets to Redshift, AWS Connect etc. The ability to professionally present ideas and work side-by-side with leadership is essential. The ability to learn and show progressive career development and advancement is key for this role.

What you will do:

• Proactively manage and support a complex AWS environment
• Lead technology projects and drive continuous improvements
• Provide technical guidance for system administration activities and drive issues to resolution
• Monitor, troubleshoot and make improvements upon systems and infrastructure at all levels within a LAN/WAN/Cloud environment
• Serve as a technical resource to other members of the Operations team and beyond
• Maintain open communication across Operations, Development, QA, and other cross-functional teams
• Monitor and troubleshoot systems and infrastructure at all levels within a LAN/WAN/Cloud environment
• Implement, test, maintain and continuously improve upon corporate disaster recovery solutions
• Use industry standards for performance and load testing of all infrastructure components
• In-depth knowledge of all things Microsoft and AWS administration

Requirements:

• 5 years of systems engineering experience required
• SSL and DNS Certification
• level AWS engineer with certification accomplishments
• Microsoft Windows Server (2008, 2012, 2019)
• Expert level of Microsoft Active Directory services - Kerberos, LDAP concepts
• Virtualization (VMWare preferred)
• Knowledge of relational database technologies - MS SQL and PostgreSQL
• Linux system administration
• Server, network performance monitoring
• Scripting (PowerShell, batch, etc.)
• Working hands-on experience with DNS, TCP/IP networking, DHCP, SMTP
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong client/business focus and genuine desire to assist
• Ability to work both independently and within a collaborative team environment
• Must be available to work outside of normal business hours including nights/weekends/holidays