Systems Engineer II

Sunnyvale, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a company operating a marketplace for consumers sellers and content creators. It offers merchandise and content purchased for resale from vendors and those offered by third party sellers.

Position: Systems Engineer II

Location: Sunnyvale CA 94089

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Job Description:

The successful engineer in this role will:

Understand how commodity servers operating systems and networks function perform and scale.
Possess superb troubleshooting project management and problem analysis skills.
Drive technical innovation and efficiency in infrastructure operations via automation.
Design server monitoring and management solutions using automation and self-repair.
Create processes that enhance operational workflow and provide positive customer impact.
Dive deep to resolve problems at their root looking for failure patterns amenable to long-term solutions via simplification and automation.
Avoid re-inventing the wheel and prefer appropriately simple repeatable solutions over more complex and failure prone ones.
Recognize and adopt best practices in documentation testing security operational support at scale and efficient use of resources.
Develop appropriate metrics to demonstrate performance at improving operational efficiency.

Typical Task Breakdown:

Understand how commodity servers operating systems and networks function perform and scale.
Possess superb troubleshooting project management and problem analysis skills.
Drive technical innovation and efficiency in infrastructure operations via automation.
Design server monitoring and management solutions using automation and self-repair.
Create processes that enhance operational workflow and provide positive customer impact.
Dive deep to resolve problems at their root looking for failure patterns amenable to long-term solutions via simplification and automation.
Avoid re-inventing the wheel and prefer appropriately simple repeatable solutions over more complex and failure prone ones.
Recognize and adopt best practices in documentation testing security operational support at scale and efficient use of resources.
Develop appropriate metrics to demonstrate performance at improving operational efficiency.

Candidate Requirements:

Degrees / Certs and/or Experience Required:

In depth knowledge of & experience deploying and operating Linux or other UNIX variants in a datacenter environment.
Relentless passion for frugality and out-of-the-box engineering.
Strong system troubleshooting skills.
Proficiency and experience in automation via Perl/Python programming and shell scripting.
Good understanding of standard internet protocols (Ethernet ARP IP ICMP UDP TCP SSL DNS HTTP etc.)
Demonstrable grasp of security best practices in server configuration tool development and access controls.
Experience in building SQL queries.

Highly Desirable Attributes:

Knowledge of C C or Java.
Knowledge of VCS (git mercurial svn).
Understanding of AWS technologies .
Experience deploying or managing servers in large-scale geographically diverse environments.
Understanding & experience of managing and monitoring large scale disk sub-systems.
Operational knowledge of common enterprise switching and routing platforms

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

Overview TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a company operating a marketplace for consumers sellers and content creators. It offers merchandise and content purcha...