Systems Engineer – Calabasas, CA Contract or Contract to Hire

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TITLE: Systems Engineer

LOCATION: Calabasas, CA (This position may start remotely (optional), and then transition into an office role (Calabasas), once we get called back after COVID.  Once back to the office, there will be an option to be remote 2 days/week)
SALARY: TBD

REPORTING TO: Sr Manager IT Services

SIZE OF TEAM: 7

STAFF TO OVERSEE: None

SIZE OF COMPANY: <50,000

NOT open to Corp to Corp

Those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply.

DKKD Staffing does not sponsor and cannot support H1, EAD, TN, etc. No outside agencies please.

Overview:

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Information Technology you will work with the team to support this enterprise company.  As the Systems Engineer, you will play an integral part in supporting the day to day operations and support servicing all aspects of the company’s Systems Infrastructure service availability.

• Planning, design, and implementation of enterprise class systems infrastructure services for mission critical applications in a complex global environment. Includes developing and implementing continuous improvement strategies to support stable and scalable infrastructure services for Corporate services.
• Troubleshooting – assist cross functional teams and internal customers to diagnose, solve and provide root cause analysis for all Systems Infrastructure services.
• Proactive monitoring and capacity planning of all server, cloud, storage and backup environments. Includes proactively evaluating and analyzing performance, issues and metrics in order to provide recommendations for service improvements across entire technology stack.
  Research new technologies and trends in virtualization, automation, storage, backup and data center area to identify methods to make continuous improvements.
• Develop technology road maps for both short and long term system engineering service lifecycles.
• Create operational and engineering documentation for current and future state of the SAN, storage and backup environment.
• Provide technical expertise and training to less experienced staff, acts as the level 3 support for all escalations
• Work with cross-functional project and engineering teams to design and deploy new systems
  Evaluate technologies, design solutions, and develop proposals to improve existing processes and infrastructure
• Be available, on-call and or on 24×7 rotations as required to rapidly troubleshoot any problems resulting in service delivery outages.  Includes responding to critical monitoring alarms and alerts during and outside normal business hours as required.
  Leverage automation techniques/technologies – Develop and maintain scripts and utilities using shell scripts, and Windows PowerShell.
• Ensure systems are compliant with company info security standards
• Develop and maintain systems documentation to include administration guides, network, configuration diagrams and asset management

REQUIREMENTS

• 5 to 7 years of Systems Administration Engineering experience supporting Windows Server 2008/2012/2016 in a VMWare environment and other core infrastructure technologies such as Active Directory, PKI, Okta, SAML, RDS & or Citrix.
• 3 to 5 years of experience developing, maintaining and reverse engineering scripts and utilities written in interpreted languages such as shell scripts, and Windows PowerShell
• Strong knowledge of systems automation technologies such as Windows Shell Scripting (Batch), VBScript, PowerShell
• Knowledge of basic networking technologies such as DHCP, DNS, VPNs, Firewalls, Routing, and Wireless networks
• Experience with a Globally distributed server and workstation environment
• Strong working knowledge of supporting Windows 7 and above, Microsoft Office 2013 and above, PC, Laptop and workstation class hardware and related peripherals
• Support of Datacenter Fiber channel SAN/iSCSI Infrastructure (NetApp, EMC)
• Support of Avamar/Data Domain or Similar Enterprise Backup & Recovery infrastructure
• Demonstrated experience with capacity planning, availability, and system management tools
• Well-organized, detail-oriented, and able to handle a fast-paced work environment Decision making skills
• Strong prioritization skills
• Excellent written communication and verbal communication skills
• Excellent customer service orientation
• Ability to work independently and prioritize duties with minimal supervision, in order to meet deadlines
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, and web-browsers

PREFERRED

• Experience supporting Multi-Cloud environment as well as Hyper Converged platforms strongly preferred
• Experience supporting systems management and deployment technologies such SCCM, Puppet, Chef, Solarwinds, and vCloud Automation strongly preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience

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• Willingness to work in a temp-to-hire opportunity:
• Experience supporting Multi-Cloud environment as well as Hyper Converged platforms:
• Experience supporting systems management and deployment technologies such SCCM, Puppet, Chef, Solarwinds, and vCloud Automation:
• 5 to 7 years of Systems Administration Engineering experience supporting Windows Server 2008/2012/2016 in a VMWare environment and other core infrastructure technologies such as Active Directory, PKI, Okta, SAML, RDS & or Citrix:
• 3 to 5 years of experience developing, maintaining and reverse engineering scripts and utilities written in interpreted languages such as shell scripts, and Windows PowerShell:
• Strong knowledge of systems automation technologies such as Windows Shell Scripting (Batch), VBScript, PowerShell:
• Knowledge of basic networking technologies such as DHCP, DNS, VPNs, Firewalls, Routing, and Wireless networks:
• Experience with a Globally distributed server and workstation environment:
• Strong working knowledge of supporting Windows 7 and above, Microsoft Office 2013 and above, PC, Laptop and workstation class hardware and related peripherals:
• Support of Datacenter Fiber channel SAN/iSCSI Infrastructure (NetApp, EMC):
• Support of Avamar/Data Domain or Similar Enterprise Backup & Recovery infrastructure:
• Demonstrated experience with capacity planning, availability, and system management tools:
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, and web-browsers

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