Role

We seek a highly motivated Senior System Engineer to contribute to IT infrastructure operations. This role will be the main technical lead for the company's server operations, providing optimal service, monitoring, and administration in collaboration with management. In detail, the role will require architecture/deployment/maintenance of the systems and being part of the IT team contributing to the decisions and directions. As the company grows, we are adopting new innovative technology and scaling the maturity of service, thus requiring extensive experience and knowledge to support our users and infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Efficient and in-depth knowledge of Linux & Windows
• Upkeep local and cloud systems with analysis and monitoring
• Understanding of application, network, and system integrations

Responsibilities

• Provide Tier I-III hands-on support for the broad server administration including servers on-prem and cloud, physical and virtual on global operations
• Contribute to the implementation of high-availability infrastructure to provide continuous service
• Design and participate in the development of strategies for the future direction of the company’s information management technology infrastructure
• Define and document architectural standards, patterns, and best practices for cloud and on-premises infrastructure solutions
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions that leverage security and operational excellence
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including network, security, and operations, to ensure seamless integration of solutions into the overall IT ecosystem
• Conduct technical evaluations and proofs-of-concept to evaluate software and hardware products from external vendors
• Work closely with security coordinators and advisers to remediate security risks through technical and procedural endeavors
• Initiate and implement architecture and design changes while ensuring that existing infrastructure services are not negatively impacted
• Analyzing IT resource utilization and establishing optimization plans
• Manage and monitor data replication/protection and disaster recovery strategies to ensure the recoverability of data and systems promptly and for appropriately defined periods of retention
• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in cloud computing and infrastructure architecture
• Contribute to budget forecasting and capacity planning
• Ability to create a roadmap for each year and set an expectation of KPI
• Participate in the on-call rotation schedule
• Collaboration with security alignment of the policy, patch management, baseline, and architecting

Experience

• Bachler’s degree in the field of IT or a related field
• 5+ years of relevant industry experience related to systems operations/architecture, Linux, and project management
• 3+ Cloud Platform operations including deployment, monitoring, and cost-efficiency analysis

Required Skills

• A broad and in-depth knowledge base of operating systems related to system and engineering processes including:
  • RPM and Debian Linux
  • Microsoft
  • VMware
• Strong background of understanding and experience in administration in:
  • Storage such as SAN, NAS, SMB, NFS
  • Puppet or PXE of server imaging
  • Database, web applications, automation, and scripting
  • Identity management such as active directory, IPA, and IAM
  • Job automation tool scheduling such as LSF or similar
  • Monitoring system for the various historical data collection and alerting
• Strong knowledge of cloud-based operation abilities to execute architecture, deployment, automation, monitoring, and cost analysis
• Understanding of EDA workload and engineering operations
• The ability to identify complex problems, review information to develop and evaluate options, and then propose solutions is imperative
• Demonstrate ability to work in a team environment with a positive demeanor, generating innovative solutions to complex challenges
• Troubleshooting and organizational skills with a can-do attitude and the ability to adjust to changing requirements are essential
• Security work or collaboration with security policy and compliance teams
• Up-to-date asset tracking systems & application
• Understanding of Network protocols and operations such as IP subnetting, VLANs, DNS, and DHCP

Preferred Skills

• GCP / AWS / Azure Related matured level operation certificate
• ITIL Certificate or In-depth knowledge of project planning, including a record of completing a large company-wide project as a PM
• Chinese Bilingual
• Security Orientated
• Familiar with engineering processes and collaboration in experience

Pay Range: $130,000 - $140,000