Senior System Engineer

Harvey Nash; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 76,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) retirement plan with 25% match

Benefits package available

Job summary

Harvey Nash is seeking a Systems Engineer to join the Cloud Operations team. You will administer and operate the global cloud infrastructure for a SaaS platform, ensuring high availability and scalable performance.

You will work closely with engineers across the company to deploy, monitor, and optimize critical systems. The role requires strong Linux, SRE/DevOps background, and experience with monitoring and configuration management tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field is expected.
• Strong Linux experience and production system administration.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure components (hardware, OS, apps, DBs, networks).
• Prior SRE/DevOps work in large-scale cloud or MSP environments is highly desirable.
• Experience with monitoring and config management tools (Nagios/Icinga, Ansible, Puppet, cfengine, chef, Splunk, Logstash).
• Familiarity with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MariaDB preferred.
• Excellent troubleshooting across web, app, DB and network layers.
• Knowledge of networking (routing, switching, load balancing) and familiarity with F5/NGINX would help.
• Understanding ITIL v3 for incidents, problems and changes.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Administer and operate global cloud infrastructure for a SaaS platform.
• Ensure availability and performance of servers and services at scale.
• Collaborate with engineers across teams to deploy and optimize systems.
• Troubleshoot production incidents and drive improvements in reliability.

Skills

Linux

SRE/DevOps

Cloud infra

Database tech

Networking

Troubleshooting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Nagios/Icinga

Ansible

Puppet

CFEngine

Chef

Splunk

Logstash

NGINX

Job description

As a key member of the Systems Administration team within Operations Engineering, you will be responsible for the administration and operations of the global cloud infrastructure that runs our SaaS product. This is an opportunity to be at the core of running a Cloud SaaS platform that scales to millions of users! The Cloud Operations team is responsible for ensuring the availability and efficiency of the server infrastructure that runs our SaaS platform while consuming and deploying products that have been newly developed by engineering teams. You will be working closely with engineers and developers across the company.

Here are some of the specific details:

Job Title: Systems Engineer

Job Duration: 12+ months

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Strong Linux expertise is a must.
• Expert-level skills and background in systems administration and engineering.
• Understanding of the components of a cloud infrastructure including hardware platforms, OS, applications, databases, networks, web and application servers.
• Prior experience in Site Reliability Engineering/DevOps and managing large-scale server infrastructure at a cloud computing or MSP setting is highly desirable.
• Experience with performance and availability monitoring, analysis, and configuration management platforms (e.g. Nagios/Icinga, Cacti, Ansible, Puppet, cfengine, chef, Splunk, Logstash).
• Familiarity with MySQL, Oracle, MariaDB, PostgreSQL or similar technologies; proficiency preferred.
• Expert-level skills and experience with service troubleshooting in a production environment covering web front-end, Systems, Databases and Networks.
• Familiarity with Networking Technologies such as routing, switching and load balancing. F5 and NGINX experience is ideal.
• Understanding of ITIL v3 framework and how it applies to incidents, problems and changes.
• Good communication skills and ability to work well in a collaborative team environment

A reasonable, good faith estimate of the minimum and maximum for this position is $55/hr to $65/hr on w2.

Benefits will also be available, and details are available at the following link:

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401(k) Retirement Plan:

Our employees work hard, which is why Harvey Nash is proud to contribute to their hard-earned savings with a 401(k) retirement plan that includes a 25% company match on all deferrals. We also offer a Roth 401(k) for even more flexibility.

About us:

Harvey Nash is a national, full-service talent management firm specializing in technology positions. Our company was founded with a mission to serve as the talent partner of choice for the information technology industry.

Our company vision has led us to incredible growth and success in a relatively short period of time and continues to guide us today. We are committed to operating with the highest possible standards of honesty, integrity, and a passionate commitment to our clients, consultants, and employees.

We are part of Nash Squared Group, a global professional services organization with over forty offices worldwide.

For more information, please visit us at https://www.harveynashusa.com/