Senior System Engineer

Job Description:

Reporting to the Network Operations Manager you will serve as a technical expert in the area of system administration for complex operating systems.

We will need you to:

Recommend the re-design and configuration of operating systems and system applications.

Investigate and analyze the feasibility of system requirements. Develop system specifications.

What we need:

We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer that, ideally, has 5 years of experience deploying, configuring, monitoring, and supporting distributed infrastructure systems, and has an understanding of security, reliability, scalability, and platform management in a real-time (always on) customer production deployment.

Skills required:

• 5 years of experience:

• Expert knowledge of Linux, Windows, and VMware infrastructure.

• DNS - how email propagates to the internet, SSL

• They provide internet to the clients

• Client Servicing - providing technical support to the clients

• Handle technical escalations from within the Systems Practice. - L3 - Architecture, handled l1

• Provide technical assistance and guidance through to resolution.

• Networking, IP, subnets, and firewalls (IPv4 and v6).

• Hosting platforms.

• Mail environments (cPanel).

• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to persevere and look for alternative solutions to problems.

• Ability to understand complex technical environments, comprising multiple servers and dependencies spread across a nationwide network.
• Excellent documentation writing skills, with the ability to clearly and simply articulate complex ideas and solutions.

• Understand technologies including hosting and email.

• Able to document and communicate processes from both a technical and non-technical perspective.

• Administer our Co-Location facility in Upper Hutt DC including UPS system.

• Monitoring/reporting systems including, but not limited to, Nagios and Cacti.

• DNS management including hosting and delegation.

• VM backup software.