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# Senior System Engineer

- **Company:** Harvey Nash
- **Location:** Poway, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $114,400.0 - $135,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Server Applications, Systems Engineering, CFEngines, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Databases, Linux, DevOps, Perl (Programming Language), Icinga, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, Nagios, Routing, Nginx, Oracle (Applications), Reliability Engineering, Logstash, Ansible, Load Balancing, Computer Network Technologies, Software Troubleshooting, Cacti, Puppet, Splunk
- **Published:** October 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/75883091-senior-system-engineer

## About the Role

* Strong Linux expertise is a must.
 * Expert-level skills and background in systems administration and engineering.
 * Understanding of the components of a cloud infrastructure including hardware platforms, OS, applications, databases, networks, web and application servers.
 * Prior experience in Site Reliability Engineering/DevOps and managing large-scale server infrastructure at a cloud computing or MSP setting is highly desirable.
 * Experience with performance and availability monitoring, analysis, and configuration management platforms (e.g. Nagios/Icinga, Cacti, Ansible, Puppet, cfengine, chef, Splunk, Logstash).
 * Working level knowledge of one: Perl, Python, JavaScript.
 * Familiarity with MySQL, Oracle, MariaDB, PostgreSQL or similar technologies; proficiency preferred.
 * Expert-level skills and experience with service troubleshooting in a production environment covering web front-end, Systems, Databases and Networks.
 * Familiarity with Networking Technologies such as routing, switching and load balancing. F5 and NGINX experience is ideal.
 * Understanding of ITIL v3 framework and how it applies to incidents, problems and changes.
 * Good communication skills and ability to work well in a collaborative team environment

## Description

As a key member of the Systems Administration team within Operations Engineering, you will be responsible for the administration and operations of the global cloud infrastructure that runs our SaaS product. This is an opportunity to be at the core of running a Cloud SaaS platform that scales to millions of users! The Cloud Operations team is responsible for ensuring the availability and efficiency of the server infrastructure that runs our SaaS platform while consuming and deploying products that have been newly developed by engineering teams. You will be working closely with engineers and developers across the company.