Job Title: Systems Engineer
Schedule: On-site 5 days a week, Monday-Friday in Irving, TX
Duration: Full-time Opportunity
Job Description:
The Intersect Group has partnered with a large enterprise company. They are looking for a qualified Systems Engineer to work out of Irving, TX. On-site 5 days/week is required for this role. They are looking for a minimum of 5 years experience working with virtualization and provisioning underlying storage.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each function at a high degree of proficient execution with little or no accommodation.
- The requirements listed below are representative, but not all inclusive, of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.
- Participate in architecture reviews with IT groups, ensure supportability requirements and standards are followed.
- Develop new standards to maintain or improve stability and scalability of the current systems environment with specific considerations to sustainability and future-proof design.
- Research and recommend innovative, and where possible, automated approaches for systems and system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage existing resources and provide economies of scale.
- Daily Storage (SAN/NAS) infrastructure support, engineering and administration in multi-vendor environment including HPE, Dell, and Qumulo.
- Daily Server infrastructure support, engineering and administration in multi-vendor environment including VMWare, Dell, and HPE platforms.
- Collaborate with members of the IT Infrastructure team and other internal teams to resolve issues related to storage and storage access as well as servers and server access.
- Author documents that improve governance and librarianship with system-related architectures.
- Skilled in determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Daily maintenance and administration of various systems and infrastructures in both production and development environments. Resolve or report critical issues to the Mgr, IT Enterprise Operations for resolution.
Requirements:
- Bachelor (4-year) degree with a technical major such as engineering or computer science (or equivalent education and applicable work experience). In lieu of degree, +2 years of professional experience is required.
- 5+ years of experience working with virtualization technology and provisioning/de-provisioning underlying storage.
- 5+ years of Windows system administration in a multi-site domain. Experience managing Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, and load-balanced configurations.
- Advanced experience with Storage systems
- Advanced experience with HPE Server Hardware
- Advanced experience with Hypervisors like VMWare, HyperV, Nutanix, or Scale
- Advanced experience with VMware vSphere and vCenter.
- Advanced experience with MS Windows 2019 and Windows 2022.
- Advanced knowledge of OSI Model, IP addressing, subnetting, VLAN, routing
- Advanced experience with network functions such as DHCP, DNS, AD, WINS and how to design and administer solutions as well as troubleshoot problems as they relate to the system operations.
- Advanced experience with monitoring systems and analysis of performance data and tuning based on this data.
- Advanced experience with Backup Technologies like Veeam.
Preferred:
- MCSE certification in MS Windows 2019 or Windows 2022 technologies
- Working knowledge of Linux commands, SSH, and SCP.
- Experience with SSL certs.
- Experience with HPE Alletra and Qumulo storage.
- Experience with HPE and Nutanix Server and Hyperconverged hardware.
- Knowledge of different RAID types and proper applications of each type.
- Advanced knowledge of disk size formatting, cluster sizing, and appropriate applications.
- Intermediate knowledge of VMFS, RDMS, and Quorum file systems.
- Advanced knowledge of SAN and NAS technologies (iSCSI, CIFS, NFS, etc.).
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES:
- Ability to multi-task effectively without compromising the quality of the work.
- Monitoring (ability to build and report metrics – (traps/SNMPv3 monitoring/trend analysis/performance of equipment)
- Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to draw conclusions and make independent decisions with limited information.
- Ability to respond to common inquiries from customers, staff, regulatory agencies, vendors, and other members of the business community.
- Self-motivated, reliable individual capable of working independently as well as part of a team.
- Possess the intellectual curiosity to work through ambiguity and have ability to work independently with minimal instruction.
- Ability to manage change and do extremely well in a fast-paced environment under time constraints.
- Ability to take initiative and work independently and work effectively with individuals belonging to all levels within the organization.
- Ability to effectively communicate with clarity and brevity.