Senior Systems Engineer

SkyConsult is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer. The ideal candidate is a problem solver with proven work experience in RedHat infrastructure, well organized and team player. Our new colleague will have the opportunity to develop his/her consulting skills, business processes knowledge and technical expertise by being exposed to our client’s complex business environment (oil & gas).

Primary Responsibilities:

• Act as a point of expertise, advise others in the team on best practice and share knowledge
• Act as lead for complex problem diagnosis and resolution and perform root cause analysis for service interruption issues
• Good understanding of data privacy and security considerations
• Perform Capacity forecasting and planning
• Performance tuning and optimization and troubleshoot performance issues
• Design and implement backup and recovery strategy
• Ensure that system design complies with policies, standards, principles
• Deliver quality project deliverables in engineering, support and/or consultation to other teams
• Develop, display, and maintain metrics for performance or reporting purposes
• Handle incidents and perform root cause analysis for service interruption issues
• Work closely with other teams on troubleshooting issues as well as planning requirements for new service
• Automate administrative tasks using scripting languages
• Work with diverse technical and non-technical teams, including Development, QA, IT Operations, Customer Operations and Project Management teams
• Create and implement change requests as needed 
• Structure, draft and review technical documentation, document technical requirements and processes for technical and non-technical audiences

Skills & Experience:

• Experience with different distributions of Linux (Red Hat/Debian/CentOS) environments
• Experience in virtualization technologies (specifically VMware), IT Security Compliance, system management/monitoring tools (NAGIOS), backup technologies (EMC Networker) are a plus
• Experience in managing network services such as NTP, DNS, SMTP, NFS, HTTP/HTTPS, proxy servers
• Experience providing support in medium to large scale infrastructure environments; experience with automation tools is a plus
• Experience in using ticketing systems
• Familiarity with RAID disk technologies & SAN infrastructure
• Familiarity with network infrastructure
• IT Industry certifications are a plus (ITIL, RHCE, LPIC-2)
• Proficient in at least 1 programming/scripting language – bash, perl, python, ruby, etc.
• Excellent systems architect and design skills represent a plus
• Experience using virtualized environments public/private clouds (VMware, Windows Hyper-V, Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud)

• Troubleshooting skills
  • Understanding and employing general methods for troubleshooting
  • Diagnosing and troubleshooting system start up issues
  • Diagnosing and troubleshooting file system issues
  • Resolving package management issues
  • Troubleshooting and fixing network connectivity issues
  • Diagnosing application issues
  • Identifying and fixing authentication issues
  • Gathering information to aid third party investigation of issues
• High Availability and clustering
  • Configuring a high-availability cluster, using either physical or virtual systems
  • Managing logical volumes in a clustered environment.
  • Configuring a GFS file system to meet specified size, layout, and performance objectives
  • Configuring iSCSI initiators
  • Utilizing multipath devices
  • Configuring cluster logging
  • Configuring cluster monitoring
• Security
  • Configure intrusion detection
  • Configure encrypted storage
  • Restrict USB devices
  • Manage PAM authentication
  • Configure system auditing
  • Configure SELinux
  • Use OpenSCAP and other tools to audit security policy compliance.

• Fluent English & Romanian (spoken and written)
• Russian (spoken and written) is a plus

 Benefits:

• You will gain skills, knowledge and experience, together with highly marketable specialists
• Certification program (professional training & exams covered by the company) 
• Private Medical insurance package 
• Annual team building 
• Flexible work schedule
• Continuous growth in a positive and multicultural work environment