Senior Systems Engineer - Cloud, Automation & Resiliency

Redolent Infotech Pvt. Ltd.; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Redolent Infotech Pvt. Ltd. in Reston, VA seeks a Sr. System Engineer for a 6+ month contract to drive design and deployment of applications across clouds and analytics tools. You will wear multiple hats including SysEng, NetEng, DBA and Dev, ensuring reliability and performance.

The ideal candidate will have strong Linux/Unix administration, experience with automation (Puppet, Chef, Ansible), CI/CD (Git, Jenkins, Maven), monitoring tools and hands-on scripting (PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field with 5+ years of IT experience.
• Leads and participates in medium- to small-scale, complex cross-functional projects.
• Work with development teams to ensure UX, scale/performance and operability.
• Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration.
• Automation/configuration management using Puppet, Chef or equivalents.
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services.
• Strong experience with SQL, MySQL, Cassandra.
• Familiar with PHP, Python, Perl and/or Ruby.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Git, Maven, Ant, Jenkins) in multiple environments.
• Experience with monitoring tools (Nagios, GrayLog, Logstash, Monit, PagerDuty).
• Understand metric requirements of system health.
• Experience writing and maintaining automation scripts (Unix Shell, Ansible).
• Solid knowledge of Unix systems and multi-tier architectures.
• Knowledge of HAProxy, Tomcat, Node.js.

Responsibilities

• Assist in designing, transitioning and deploying of applications to various clouds
• Develop tools and framework to improve operational efficiency and anomaly detection
• Design and operate the environment to test application resiliency to infrastructure instabilities
• Responsible for application configurations in different cloud environments
• Proactively monitor, identify, and elevate issues or root causes of systemic issues
• Participate in the weekly rotating shift for level 1 support
• Enable data scientists, business and product partners to fully leverage our predictive analytics platform
• Be the team and technical lead with a demonstrable ability to learn quickly. Amazing ability to get stuff done.
• Follows the industry trends in the online world

Skills

Linux/Unix Administration

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud deployments

SQL & Cassandra

Scripting languages

PHP

Python

Perl

Ruby

CI/CD tools

Git

Maven

Ant

Jenkins

Nagios

Node.js

Tomcat

HAProxy

Web/App servers

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Technology/Engineering or related field

Tools

Puppet

Chef

Ansible

Job description

Redolent Infotech Pvt. Ltd. in Reston, VA seeks a Sr. System Engineer for a 6+ month contract to drive design and deployment of applications across clouds and analytics tools. You will wear multiple hats including SysEng, NetEng, DBA and Dev, ensuring reliability and performance.

The ideal candidate will have strong Linux/Unix administration, experience with automation (Puppet, Chef, Ansible), CI/CD (Git, Jenkins, Maven), monitoring tools and hands-on scripting (PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby).