Senior Systems Engineer

• Maintain the uptime, performance, and capacity of production servers and services through ticket and alert triage, monitoring and alerting, system maintenance, troubleshooting, and performance analysis.
• Manage system configuration and infrastructure, including Linux administration, configuration management, server hardware selection, virtualization platforms, storage architectures, DNS, LDAP, and Kerberos, centralized logging, and containerized systems.
• Perform patching, migrations, upgrades, and change management activities while supporting version control and infrastructure tools, including Git, BitBucket, Ansible, Elasticsearch/ELK, and the HashiCorp suite.
• Develop and maintain system automation, scripting, and CI/CD build pipelines using Python or BASH and participate in infrastructure monitoring, metrics gathering, and capacity planning activities across production environments.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation while independently and collaboratively managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment, providing internal client and customer service, documenting technical information, communicating with staff at all levels, and following through on projects.

• 5+ years of experience with UNIX/Linux administration.
• BA/BS or higher degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.
• Expertise in Linux system administration, including Debian and Red Hat, with experience troubleshooting Linux subsystems and internals.
• Ability to create scripts using Python or BASH.
• Significant experience with Ansible-based configuration management.
• Experience specifying and selecting server hardware platforms based on application requirements.
• Familiarity with virtualization hypervisors, including OpenShift KubeVirt, KVM, Nutanix, and VMware.
• Experience with monitoring and metrics gathering tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and SysStat.
• Ability to triage tickets and issues when only partial information is available, including obtaining additional information from requestors.
• Experience with change management and version control, including Git and BitBucket.
• Experience with CI/CD build pipeline development.
• Experience with LDAP and Kerberos administration.
• Familiarity with centralized logging through Elasticsearch/ELK.
• Experience with DNS zone files and DNS administration.
• Experience with SAN, NAS, Ceph, and ZFS storage architectures.
• Experience managing containerized systems, including Docker, Nomad, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
• Experience with HashiCorp products, including Consul, Nomad, and Vault.
• Familiarity with AWS and GCP cloud environments.

• Hourly pay: $80-$85/hr
• Worksite: Leading music streaming company (Remote, open to candidates in the United States)
• W2 Employment, Group Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement Savings Program, PSL
• 40 hours/week, 6 Month Assignment

A leading music streaming company seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to maintain the uptime, performance, and capacity of production servers and services, with responsibilities spanning system administration, monitoring, automation, troubleshooting, infrastructure maintenance, and architectural support.