Sr. Systems Engineer

Overview

Support and enhance enterprise infrastructure underpinning global business operations. Maintain existing systems while modernizing and automating infrastructure to improve scalability and performance.

What you'll do

• Deploy and manage hardware, including gray market systems, in enterprise data centers with assistance from on-site personnel.
• Design, implement, and migrate to modern private cloud infrastructure.
• Establish and maintain configuration management using Foreman, Puppet Enterprise, and Ansible for Linux environments.
• Enhance automated build and deployment pipelines for physical and virtual machines.
• Create configuration roles and automation code using tools like Ansible and Puppet.
• Develop scripts to automate daily tasks for the Systems Engineering team.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting for hardware, Linux, and Windows systems in large-scale environments.
• Lead and plan infrastructure projects independently.
• Provide subject matter expertise in designated technical areas and contribute to technical discussions and architecture decisions.
• Advise on data center best practices, including power configuration, HVAC, and rack design.
• Collaborate across time zones.
• Participate in a 24x7 support rotation with occasional on-call responsibilities.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of Linux/Unix administration experience with Solaris, AIX, or other flavors.
• 3+ years of OpenStack engineering and administration experience.
• 5+ years of VMWare or equivalent engineering and administration experience.
• 5+ years of scripting experience with Bash, Perl, Ruby, Python, etc.
• 3–5 years of experience with system monitoring tools such as Check_MK, Nagios, and SolarWinds.
• 3–5 years of hands-on hardware management experience with Dell, SuperMicro, and HP.
• 2–3 years of experience with Puppet for configuration management.
• 5+ years of experience using Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Skill at mentoring and leading technical discussions, including whiteboarding sessions.
• Excellent documentation skills, particularly using wikis and diagramming tools like Visio or Lucidchart.
• Ability to take direction while also contributing ideas for environment improvements.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• 1–2 years of storage administration experience with EMC, NetApp, 3PAR, or Hitachi.
• 1–2 years of experience with F5 load balancers.
• 2–4 years of public or hybrid cloud experience with AWS, Azure, or Rackspace.
• 2–3 years of application development experience with Java, C++, C#/VB.NET, PHP, HTML, or JavaScript.
• 1–2 years of CI/CD experience with Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.
• 2+ years with Ansible AWX or Tower.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
• Global role with collaboration across time zones.
• Participation in a 24x7 support rotation with occasional on-call responsibilities.