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Senior Systems Engineer
JPC Partners
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Senior
- 19 hours ago
- Linux
- Unix
- AWS
- Azure
- Disaster Recovery
- Change Management
- VMware
- EMC
- Tomcat
- Apache
- WebLogic
- Oracle
- Windows
- Python
- Perl
- DNS
- SFTP
- LDAP
- Active Directory
- Regulatory Compliance
19 hours ago
This Senior level position provides technical leadership for complex infrastructure initiatives while ensuring the reliability, security, performance, and recoverability of business-critical systems.
The Senior Systems Engineer partners with IT and business teams to align infrastructure capabilities with organizational priorities, regulatory requirements, and long-term technology strategy.
Essential Functions
Strategy & Planning
- Lead capacity planning, lifecycle management, and short- and long-term infrastructure planning for Linux, Unix, cloud, virtualization, storage, and related platforms.
- Design and recommend scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure solutions that support business applications, integrations, growth, and business continuity requirements.
- Evaluate hardware, software, cloud services, and emerging technologies, providing recommendations that balance business value, risk, cost, supportability, and operational impact.
- Identify infrastructure risks, technical debt, vulnerabilities, and single points of failure; develop and lead remediation plans.
- Clearly communicate infrastructure strategies, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to IT leadership and relevant stakeholders.
- Lead the installation, configuration, administration, monitoring, maintenance, and optimization of Linux and Unix servers, file systems, networks, clusters, load balancers, storage platforms, virtualization environments, and related applications.
- Administer and optimize Linux workloads and services within AWS and Microsoft Azure.
- Own the technical design, testing, and execution of system configurations, backups, restores, recovery procedures, and disaster recovery activities.
- Review, test, and deploy operating system releases, upgrades, patches, and configuration changes in accordance with established change-management practices.
- Monitor, analyze, and optimize system performance, capacity, availability, and reliability while maintaining required logs and operational records.
- Lead the administration and support of VMware vSphere, Dell EMC VxRail, hyperconverged infrastructure, enterprise storage, and related platforms.
- Develop automation using shell scripting and other tools to improve consistency, security, operational efficiency, and delivery speed.
- Secure, stabilize, and support legacy Linux, Unix, and application environments, including systems that cannot be immediately upgraded or retired due to business or technical dependencies.
- Assess legacy platform risks and implement appropriate compensating controls, monitoring, access restrictions, patching strategies, and remediation plans in collaboration with Infrastructure, Security, Application Development, and business owners.
- Administer, secure, monitor, and support Apache Tomcat environments, including version management, configuration hardening, patching, performance tuning, certificate management, logging, and incident resolution.
- Partner with application teams to identify Tomcat and other legacy application dependencies, reduce operational and security risks, and develop practical upgrade, migration, or retirement plans.
- Serve as a senior escalation point for complex hardware, operating system, network, storage, cloud, and application issues across Linux and Unix environments.
- Provide technical leadership for infrastructure projects, upgrades, migrations, recovery exercises, and operational improvements.
- Support application development teams and enterprise applications throughout the project and application lifecycle.
- Provide operational support for Apache, WebLogic, BI Publisher, and related enterprise applications, including collaboration on issues involving Oracle databases.
- Collaborate with IT Operations, Security, Networking, Cloud, Application Development, vendors, and business stakeholders to resolve issues and deliver technology initiatives.
- Mentor junior engineers and other IT staff through technical guidance, knowledge transfer, and day-to-day support.
- Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, technical standards, procedures, runbooks, configuration records, troubleshooting guides, and training materials.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and provide after-hours support during incidents, maintenance windows, and critical business needs.
- Senior-level Linux and Unix systems administration.
- Infrastructure architecture, lifecycle planning, and technical leadership.
- Cloud, virtualization, storage, networking, and enterprise infrastructure operations.
- Security administration, access controls, system hardening, vulnerability remediation, and compliance.
- Backup and recovery, disaster recovery, patching, monitoring, and performance tuning.
- Automation and scripting.
- Complex troubleshooting, analytical thinking, and sound technical judgment.
- Strong communication, collaboration, documentation, and customer service skills.
- Organization, prioritization, accountability, and attention to detail.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in Linux and Unix systems administration and infrastructure engineering.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex infrastructure initiatives, upgrades, migrations, troubleshooting efforts, or technical workstreams.
- Experience installing, configuring, administering, and maintaining Linux or Unix servers, networks, clusters, load balancers, virtualization environments, and enterprise applications.
- Experience with enterprise storage and hyperconverged infrastructure, including Dell EMC VxRail.
- Experience administering VMware vSphere or a comparable enterprise virtualization platform.
- Experience administering Linux systems or workloads in AWS and/or Microsoft Azure.
- Strong hands-on troubleshooting experience across hardware, operating systems, applications, networks, storage, and cloud environments.
- Strong scripting and automation experience using shell scripting and at least one additional language, such as Python, Perl, or C.
- Working knowledge of DNS, SFTP, LDAP, Active Directory, firewalls, endpoint protection, IDS/IPS, and Linux/Unix operating system hardening.
- Experience with backup and restore processes, disaster recovery, high availability, system monitoring, and performance tuning.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, customer service, and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively with distributed teams while managing multiple priorities in a high-pressure environment.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Relevant certifications in Linux, Unix, cloud technologies, VMware, Dell EMC, networking, storage, or security.
- Experience supporting Apache, WebLogic, and BI Publisher in an enterprise environment.
- Experience with Oracle databases and related application support.
- Experience supporting regulatory compliance, access reviews, vulnerability remediation, audit activities, and security assessments.
- Experience developing technical standards, architecture documentation, runbooks, and training materials.
- Experience mentoring junior engineers or leading technical project workstreams.
Senior Systems Engineer · JPC Partners