Systems Engineer III

Rishabh RPO
San Diego, CA, United States
about 1 month ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary to permanent
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
1 year minimum
Compensation
$58,240.0 - $62,400.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Systems Engineering Microsoft Azure Bash Shell CentOS Cloud Computing Domain Name System (DNS) Python (Programming Language) Network Troubleshooting PostgreSQL Linux System Administration Nginx
+18 more
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Ansible Prometheus Service Pack Policy as Code Transport Layer Security Load Balancing System Availability Grafana Mttr Gitlab Kubernetes Information Technology Puppet Terraform Splunk Servicenow Artifactory

Job description

Senior Systems Engineer role operating ServiceNow’s critical developer platforms: enterprise GitLab (3,000+ users) and JFrog Artifactory across commercial and regulated market environments. Work independently on complex infrastructure challenges and drive operational excellence. What You Will Do:

  • Operate GitLab and Artifactory platforms with high availability across multiple datacenters
  • Execute upgrades, security patching, and infrastructure modernization with minimal downtime
  • Manage GitLab Geo replication, PostgreSQL HA clusters, and Artifactory Hub/Edge architectures
  • Build observability dashboards using Grafana, Prometheus, and Splunk, and establish SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs
  • Implement GitOps patterns and support Kubernetes migrations
  • Develop automation for self-healing and automated remediation
  • Collaborate cross-functionally on migrations and architecture decisions
  • Participate in an on-call rotation and drive MTTR reduction

Requirements

  • BS in computer science or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years operating enterprise-scale platforms
  • 3+ years of GitLab self-managed administration with Geo and HA
  • 3+ years of Artifactory administration with Hub/Edge architectures
  • 2+ years of operational Kubernetes experience with Helm or Helmfile
  • 5+ years of Linux administration experience with RHEL or CentOS
  • Relevant certifications - AWS/Azure/GCP associate or professional, CKA/CKAD
  • PostgreSQL HA cluster management experience; Patroni preferred
  • Experience with load balancers such as F5 or NGINX, DNS, TLS, and network troubleshooting
  • Monitoring experience with Grafana, Prometheus, and Splunk
  • Automation experience with Ansible, Puppet, Python, and Bash
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and artifact promotion
  • FedRAMP IL4 or IL5 experience preferred
  • Strong collaboration skills and a continuous learning mindset

Preferred

  • JFrog Xray and GitOps experience, including ArgoCD or Flux
  • Supply chain security experience, including SBOMs and image signing
  • Policy-as-code experience with OPA
  • Cloud platform experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP

Minimum bar

  • Do not forward a candidate who fails any of these:
  • 1 year hands-on public-cloud infrastructure experience (absolute floor for IC3).
  • Production experience, not just lab/dev/coursework - has built or operated infra that real workloads depend on.
  • Hands-on infrastructure-as-code exposure (Terraform or equivalent).
  • Multi-resource / multi-environment scale - has worked beyond a single VM or a single personal account.

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