What are the responsibilities and job description for the Systems Engineer position at Koch Business Solutions, LP?
Koch Ag & Energy Solutions LLC (KAES) is seeking a Systems Engineer to join the Koch Energy Services (KES) Natural Gas Trading team in Wichita, Kansas. In this role, you will support IT and business operations by ensuring reliable, accurate, and optimized system performance. You will collaborate with business users, analysts, and software engineers to deliver effective system solutions and promote best practices for managing KES' data assets. Your contributions will directly enhance the efficiency of key business functions.
This position works cross-functionally with teams in Trading, Logistics, Risk Management, KAES Data Analytics, and other IT groups across KAES to meet critical data needs that support diverse business opportunities. The ideal candidate has experience implementing modern cloud-based data architectures, an entrepreneurial mindset, strong communication abilities, and excellent critical thinking skills.
Our Team
KES ranks among the top 10 gas marketers in North America, managing the procurement, distribution, and oversight of over 5 billion cubic feet of natural gas daily. This scale offers IT professionals abundant opportunities to develop their skills and pursue diverse career paths.
Join our IT team to work on cutting-edge initiatives such as the Eleox consortium, AI integrations, and innovative energy solutions. We are committed to continuous learning and provide strong support for professional growth. As a KAES Systems Engineer, you will focus on aligning technology with business priorities, lead projects that enhance capabilities, minimizing inefficiencies, and unlock revenue opportunities, all while driving strategic change for our customers.
A Day in the Life Typically Includes:
* Manage relationships with Developer Leads, Technical Leads, Application Support, and DBAs while independently collaborating across technical teams and driving system discussions with vendors and consultants.
* Strategize new initiatives to optimize ETRM performance and address technical debt. Facilitate communication between the ION team and users regarding issues and updates.
* Evaluate hardware capacity and provide upgrade suggestions based on thorough utilization assessments. Expertise in system maintenance and configuration is required to develop detailed documentation of past issues and solutions, supporting future team collaboration.
* Modernize Platform Maintenance involves continuous performance management, data purging, system monitoring, and tuning. It also includes hardware load balancing and an increased hardware footprint to accommodate growth, along with the maintenance of grid engines, licenses, and servers.
What You Will Need
Basic Qualifications:
* Experience in system analysis, or process analysis experience, or development experience
* Experience leveraging cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Microsoft Azure
* Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and DevOps best practices, including CI/CD, using tools such as SVN, GitHub, or Azure DevOps.
* Proficiency in anticipating and evaluating technical changes to maintain and enhance system performance.
* Expertise in anticipating and assessing technical change impacts to system health to maintain and improve system performance and develop technical solutions as required
* Experience in internal development standards, perform code and architectural reviews. Monitoring responding and automating system issues
What Will Put You Ahead
Preferred Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Math, Physics, Economics, Computer Science, Statistics, or Business Analytics
* Experience with AWS big data services (e.g., Kinesis, Glue, EMR) and ETL/analytics tools (Matillion, Talend, AtScale)
* Familiarity with data virtualization (Denodo) and visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau)
* Knowledge in data storage technologies (Redshift, S3, Hadoop, Snowflake)
* Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks (Java, Python, Apache Spark, PL/SQL, T-SQL)
* Experience working with ETRM systems.
* Experience in energy trading with a solid understanding of the end-to-end commodity industry, preferably North American natural gas, including trading, risk management, and data analysis.
This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
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Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch company, Koch Ag & Energy Solutions (KAES) is a global provider of value-added solutions for the agriculture, turf and ornamental, energy and chemical markets. From agriculture to energy, KAES makes things grow better with plant nutrient and biological technologies. Our team of innovators unleash their potential while developing the technologies that feed and power the world.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).
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