Senior Systems Engineer Job Description
Senior systems engineer
provides competitive knowledge and solutions to effectively address and dispel objections for UDS product and solution.
Senior Systems Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Administer and support engineering level technologies such as VMware/ESX farms, HP Left hand Storage, Windows Server, Active Directory Services, DNS, Exchange, Websense, SharePoint, File and Print Services, MobileIron and FTP
Active Directory management and maintenance in a large enterprise environment
Understanding of network hardware and software expertise (Cisco preferred, Enterasys experience a plus)
Manages and maintains Servers, Network Infrastructure (incl
Develop production systems
Support of integration of LMW IT Peripheral equipment (instruments/scanners ) and assisting in incident and problems investigations ensuring quick resolution of issues
Communicating with site users on IT advisories as required
Lead process improvement efforts by providing constructive feedback, suggesting alternatives, and driving continuous process improvement
Collaborate with the development team on how to best utilize new technology
Create tools to increase productivity (monitoring, automation, alert generation)
Senior Systems Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Systems Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: AWS, VCP, ITIL, MSCE, VCDX, VCAP, MCSE, SSL, II, IAT
Education for Senior Systems Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior systems engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technical, Education, Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, Mathematics
Skills for Senior Systems Engineer
Desired skills for senior systems engineer include:
DNS
Active Directory
Trends
Train the account team
Industry directions
Storage Analysis and Monitoring Tools
DHCP
Competitive solutions to effectively address & dispel customer objections to DELL solutions
Job associated software and applications
Desired experience for senior systems engineer includes:
Ability to participate in on-call
Strong team mentality with a proven record of leveraging peers and other resources as needed to address small and large impacting issues as well pro-active coordination these events
6+ years of experience administering and maintaining a Windows 2008 and higher environment
Bachelor’s degree in IT related field or equivalent experience or equivalent experience
Excellent knowledge of networking including routing, firewall rules, CDNs
The candidate should possess minimum 5 years’ experience in a role providing analytical, diagnostic and problem-solving skills in a technology-driven environment
Senior Systems Engineer Examples
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Senior Systems Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a senior systems engineer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior systems engineer
- Become the team’s expert on Avamar backup and de-duplication software McAfee ePO, WSUS, Web Proxy Administration and Threat Management Gateway (TMG)
- Act as senior resource for junior level staff providing mentoring and advanced troubleshooting to ensure projects are completed on time
- Act as technical project manager for major initiatives, tasks, changes and product deployments
- Ensure compatibility and interoperability of in-house computer systems
- Ensure all incidents are closed with technical documentation
- Review and update ALL Systems process documentation, diagrams
- Create and maintain a server technical roadmap and version control documentation
- Increase application / server availability
- Work closely with the PMO on projects requiring Server resource support
- Suggest areas for improvement / cost savings
Qualifications for senior systems engineer
- Understand, articulate and position both internally and externally end-to-end horizontal architectures and Services
- Extensive experience in a mixture of networking, network applications and unified communications
- Network knowledge – IP and associated protocols, network topologies, MPLS, VPN, QoS design and best practices for real-time applications, VoIP knowledge, IP H323/SIP, gatekeepers, firewall traversal
- Solid experience in real-time communications over IP
- Solid experience in sales support role
- High quality of technical document writing (RFP, solution descriptions )
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a senior systems engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior systems engineer
- Plan and assist in the implementation of new systems and the decommissioning of end of life systems
- Assess the current environment and suggest/engineer improvement paths where needed
- Conducts project planning, cost analysis and vendor comparisons, creating a department blueprint for technology needs
- Coach, train, and mentor less experienced Systems Engineers and Service Desk team members
- Work within small engineering teams to ensure service levels and objectives are met
- Provides oversight for the monitoring and management of all installed systems and infrastructure
- Proactively ensures high availability of systems and infrastructure
- Establish, maintain, and enforce strategies for monitoring, testing, and troubleshooting application performance, enterprise infrastructure, security, backup, COOP/DR, and high availability
- Coordinate, facilitate, and lead design events, operational improvement initiatives, and tier 3 support activities
- Liaison with vendors to facilitate resolution of complex hardware or software issues
Qualifications for senior systems engineer
- 4+ years as a technical solutions or enterprise architect in a consulting environment, with strong experience in developing Enterprise IT architectural solutions
- 4+ years as a technical solutions or enterprise architect in a presales consulting environment, with strong experience in developing Enterprise IT architectural solutions
- Business development experience in a presales consulting and/or professional services environment including time supporting sales and managing technical engagement
- Support Marketing Events (Speaker, Presenter)
- At least 8 years of progressive IT industry experience with recent experience administering a large windows server enterprise environment of at least 100 servers
- Ability to interact with internal and external customers vendors in a professional, helpful manner
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Our company is looking to fill the role of senior systems engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior systems engineer
- Handles special assignments and projects as necessary
- Understands the requirements of the assigned contract(s)
- Perform technical and cost analysis of proposals ranging in value from tens of thousands of dollars to hundreds of millions of dollars
- Design, implement, operate and troubleshoot the automation and monitoring of a service that spans multiple datacenters globally
- Focus on continuous improvement to eliminate duplicative effort, eliminating recurring issues, and create consistency in delivering our services
- Manage technical implementations as needed
- Install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, upgrade and monitor multi-platform environment (RedHat/CentOS, Solaris10/11, Windows 2008/2012)
- Provide performance/low latency tuning, capacity planning, automation and documentation for systems and applications
- Provide the strong virtualization skills such as VMware ESX, Solaris Zones/LDOMs, windows2012r2 Hyper-V
- Collaborate as a knowledge leader in the specification, design, and deployment of Unix, Citrix (Window based) infrastructure
Qualifications for senior systems engineer
- Ability to be professional and write for technical specifications and technical papers and reports
- 10+ years of experience with systems engineering, including in support of DoD acquisition programs
- Knowledge of submarine systems, maintenance and reliability concepts, and testing support for undersea communication systems and platforms
- Ability to perform analysis of technical alternatives for a project, make preliminary recommendations, and analyze and recommend alternatives for elements of project's technical design independently
- Experience with defining and modeling business or system processes and workflows and identifying mechanisms and approaches for process improvement or automation
- Requires three to five years systems administration/engineering
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior systems engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior systems engineer
- Maintain our Windows Server environment, which includes dealing with Active Directory setup and issues
- Experience configuring and administrating SAN and Direct Attached Storage
- Knowledge of Software Defined Storage
- Experience configuring and maintaining Cisco and HP blade environments
- Experience supporting cloud environments including technologies such as VSphere, KVM/RHEV, CloudForms, and OpenStack
- Experience with multiple scripting languages including PERL, JAVA and .NET
- Experience with JBOSS and Hadoop
- Maintains current status/activity status of all potential engagements
- Obtains customer commitment to fully participate in all aspects of the Platinum customer program
- Enables business and sales discussions that result in closing the deal prior to Platinum program kickoff with customer
Qualifications for senior systems engineer
- Able to provide installation, maintenance, and tuning of hardware and software systems
- Current domain and program experience in operations, maintenance or acquisition
- Demonstrated ability to translate ideas into results
- Recognized as a domain expert in Flight Operations
- In-depth technical and broad based domain specific program experience
- Demonstrated ability to establish, maintain, and build new relationships
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Our company is looking for a senior systems engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior systems engineer
- Define and rehearse disaster recovery for all systems
- Work to drive down cost for infrastructure while meeting Service Level Agreements (SLA)
- Design and audit a highly secure infrastructure for a business-critical application
- Support continuing development activities by doing design reviews
- Instrument monitoring in all systems for proactive reporting of production issues
- Ensures the use of performance data and historical metrics to effectively plan for growth, upgrades, migrations and optimization
- Coordinates with various teams to provision and facilitate delivery of systems and applications
- Resolve Support Tickets
- Ensure Root Cause Analysis for any critical service issues is completed as appropriate
- Works with internal customers, teammates and 3rd party Providers to ensure operationa delivery of the cloud and server infrastructure
Qualifications for senior systems engineer
- Significant experience in performing risk analysis and mitigation on Space Vehicles or Launch Vehicle solid and liquid propulsion systems and its subsystem components using DoD approved risk analysis process
- Ordnance health and safety requirements
- Master's degree with 20 yrs USAF experience including 15 yrs in space systems acquisitions
- Systems Engineering and Architecture expertise
- Understanding of USAF development planning process
- Knowledge of the SMC enterprise