Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer

Are you a talented Senior Systems Engineer who wants to have an impact in one of the largest media organisations in the world?

The Senior Systems Engineer will be brought in to provide support and configuration assistance to application teams deploying at public Cloud providers (AWS, Azure, & GCP). You will be workin closely with vendors and global/regional IT groups to resolve problems in a timely manner as well as serve as the primary escalation point for the application communities and Sourcing Provider(s) for operational issues, ensuring timely resolution & communication.

Skills required:

• Experience split between traditional server management and enterprise Cloud systems (AWS, Azure, Google or equivalent)
• Knowledge of Chef and Terraform or equivalent
• Strong knowledge of virtualization technology (VMware, Hyper-V or equivalent)
• Must possess strong people skills and the ability to be both diplomatic and firm
• Experience in highly available 24x7 production environment
• Fluency in operating system administration and tools including Microsoft, Mac OS X, Linux, Python, PowerShell or equivalent
• Real world experience with Scripting (*nix Shell, PowerShell, Python, PHP or equivalent) to develop automation and reporting
• Practical (hands-on) grasp of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and Microsoft (Windows Server, IIS, MS SQL or equivalent) technologies
• Full understanding of hypervisors and virtual machines (VMware, Hyper-V, others or equivalent)
• Proven experience with Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure or equivalent (Google Compute a plus) in an enterprise setting
• Solid understanding of key cloud design concepts such as High Availability (HA), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), especially in relation to modern disaster recovery (DR) methodologies and cloud-based solution design
• Experience managing large cloud server infrastructure on AWS and/or Azure
  • Clear understanding of AWS-specific services and terms (EC2, S3, RDS, AZ, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudTrail or equivalent)
  • Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS
  • Migrating an existing on-premises application to AWS
  • Implementing and controlling the flow of data to and from AWS
  • Selecting the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements
  • Identifying appropriate use of AWS operational best practices
  • Estimating AWS usage costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms
• Communicate clearly in both the written and verbal mode to technical and non-technical audiences
• Manage time well in a high-interrupt operational environment. Handle the details of several technical tasks simultaneously.
• Customer and service delivery oriented
• Ability to mentor technical operations staff in appropriate technologies, as needed
• Be an excellent and creative problem solver

Senior Systems Engineer

Due to the volume of applications received for positions, it will not be possible to respond to all applications and only applicants who are considered suitable for interview will be contacted.

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