Linux Engineer / System Engineer

Prosum; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Prosum in Glendale, California is looking for a Systems Engineer to ensure the highest performance for systems and networks. The role involves designing and operating scalable systems while monitoring their reliability.

Candidates should possess a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering and have over 6 years of relevant experience. Key skills include strong knowledge of system hardware, operating systems, and networking. This is an 18 month contract position.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in engineering or computer systems.
• Strong project management and resource planning experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate scalable systems.
• Monitor and tune systems for optimal performance.
• Investigate and resolve hardware and software problems.

Skills

Systems hardware

Operating system administration

Data center architectures

File Transport Solutions

Scripting

Automation technologies

IP networking

Virtual Environment technologies

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Job description

Job Description

Systems Engineers working within the Media Systems and Network Engineering group provide the highest level of performance and availability for the systems, cloud, networks, storage and applications that they build and support. This level of excellence is necessary to ensure that the time and business-critical demands are supported with world-class technology and systems management.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate scalable systems
• Monitor, measure, and tune systems for optimal performance and 24/7 reliability
• Investigate, analyze, resolve and document hardware and software problems on a wide range of systems in several data centers
• Investigate, analyze, resolve and document software and configuration issues with a variety of public cloud hosted environments
• Create and maintain operational documentation pertaining to deployment, management and administrative duties
• Perform miscellaneous job‑related duties as assigned, including working off‑hours on occasion to maximize production uptime

Qualifications

Deep knowledge of:

• Systems hardware (e.g. blade servers, load balancers, SAN, NAS, and tape libraries)
• Operating system administration (e.g. Unix, Linux, OSX, and Windows)
• High performance data storage solutions whether SAN, NAS, or Clustered (e.g. Isilon)
• Large‑scale backup solutions and tape technologies (e.g. Quantum, NetBackup)
• Data center, network, and application architectures
• Local and Networked File Systems (e.g. NFS, CIFS, AFP, DFS, NTFS, Hadoop)
• File Transport Solutions (e.g. Signiant, Aspera, SFTP)
• Application and Web Services
• Systems Toolsets and protocols (e.g. SNMP, Nagios, tcpdump)
• Virtual Environment technologies (e.g. VMWare, OpenStack, CloudStack)
• Systems Security (e.g. password domains, patch, monitoring)
• Scripting, including PHP, Perl, Python and Ruby (optional)
• Automation technologies in Systems

Desired practical experience:

• Operating system installation and management
• Strong project management and resource planning experience
• IP networking including performance based troubleshooting
• Installation of large server systems
• Routed network installation and management

Personal Characteristics:

• A generalist who can perform many different tasks.
• Able to comfortably multitask (i.e., perform multiple architecting tasks concurrently).
• Able to make important decisions given incomplete and conflicting knowledge.
• Highly self‑directed, being able to both manage and (re)prioritize the multiple concurrent and competing challenges, issues, ambiguities, and contradictions that necessarily occur during the production of the database architecture and design.
• Strong analytical problem solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and thus able to explain and document the systems to their diverse audiences.
• A team‑building leader with good interpersonal and relationship building skills.

Qualifications/Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
• 6+ years in engineering or computer systems

Additional Information

18 months contract

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