Senior System Engineer
RemoteUnited States or Philippines
Job Summary
Recommend operating system re-designs, analyze system requirements feasibility, and develop specifications. Investigate complex technical environments across a nationwide network, administering the Upper Hutt DC co-location facility including UPS systems. Manage DNS, SSL, email propagation, and cMail environments while handling L3 technical escalations and providing guidance to resolution. Monitor reporting systems using Nagios and Cacti, oversee VM backups, and document processes for both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Requires five years of experience deploying Linux, Windows, and VMware infrastructure with expertise in networking, firewalls, and hosting platforms.
Required Qualifications
- 5 years of experience deploying, configuring, monitoring, and supporting distributed infrastructure systems
- Expert knowledge of Linux, Windows, and VMware infrastructure
- DNS - how email propagates to the internet, SSL
- Networking, IP, subnets, and firewalls (IPv4 and v6)
- Hosting platforms
- Mail environments (cPanel)
- Understand technologies including hosting and email
- 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
- 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
Desired Qualifications
- 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
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