BGI has the following six month contact opportunity with our direct client.
ystems Engineer
Seeking a talented, energetic self-starter for a Systems Engineer position. Candidate must have a minimum of 5 years systems engineering experience supporting Windows server environments leveraging DevOps tools and concepts. Deep understanding of private and public cloud services on AWS with 2-3 years hands-on work experience in AWS required.
As a Systems Engineer, you will:
• Provide expert level support for highly virtualized Windows environment focused on scale, availability and security
• Assist in the administration of Active Directory, Exchange and connected infrastructures
• Ability to optimize where possible instead of strictly lift-shift only approach; utilize Ansible to automate application infrastructure leveraging Linux-focused automation frameworks built on Terraform
• Deploy automation technologies and processes to support on-premise and cloudbased infrastructures
• Ability to understand application(s) true capacity needs, apply security best practices, use appropriately sized instances; run tests to ensure application is performant and resilient while maintaining a cost effective, dynamic infrastructure.
• Experience with cloud services, such as AWS, potential problems, and how to setup and manage a service in the cloud; ability to leverage AWS managed database service (RDS)
• Experience in monitoring and setting up alerting for cloud components
• Maintain documentation and enforce secure, system policies
• Utilize AWS and Azure tools in a hybrid infrastructure Core Tech Stack
To be considered a good cultural fit, you must be:
• An ambitious self-starter
• Strong desire to solve with automation and self-service
• A very strong and efficient communicator and collaborator
• A problem solver; able to develop quick and sound solutions to complex problems
To be considered a good technical fit, you must have:
• BS Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field/technical experience
• Expert administration skills in MS Windows server platform technologies (AD/DNS/DHCP/GPO/DFS)
• Experience with AWS services including latest generation AWS instance types, EC2 Autoscaling, Elastic Load Balancers, and RDS to name a few.
• Advanced knowledge in automating Windows platforms leveraging Powershell, C#, or Python
• Strong knowledge of automation and configuration management systems (SCCM, Puppet, Docker, Terraform, Serverless)
• Experience in Cloudformation and codedeploy
• Strong knowledge of supporting MS Exchange infrastructure and associated archiving / security gateway products
• Strong knowledge of networking (TCP/IP), security and optimization