Senior System Engineer

Role Summary

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.

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.