Systems Engineer I

San Diego, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 7 hours 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 I

Location: San Diego CA 92121

Duration: 5 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.
On-call support to monitor and troubleshoot ETL pipelines and Neo4J EC2 Instances
Identify and root cause failures troubleshoot failures and deploy fixes
Monitor performance benchmarks and tweak parameters as needed to optimize customer experience
Address on call tickets at various severity levels in resolving issues related to ETL failures and infrastructure related issues
Document incidents and resolutions
Dive deep to resolve problems at their root looking for failure patterns amenable to long-term solutions via simplification and automation.

Story Behind the Need Business Group & Key Projects

Core Platform team (a 7-member team) is responsible for managing and operating the graph database infrastructure that is at the heart of the Veritas platform this team is also responsible for the ETL process that takes data from the staging wow tables and ingests it into the graph database.
As customer usage scales and data volume increases operational overhead is rapidly outpacing current team capacity.
We urgently require DevOps support to maintain SLAs ensure environment stability and free engineers to focus on roadmap priorities.

Candidate Requirements:

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.

Preferred:

Ex-employee is a plus
Knowledge of AWS CDK DevOps Monitoring tools and scripting Python Scala and Java
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

Degree or Certification:

Bachelors Degree Required (Software Engineer Computer Science)

KPI:

Supporting cloud-infrastructure operation
Quality of Work

Leadership Principle:

Ownership
Earn Trust
Deliver Results

Top 3 must-have hard skills

Experience with AWS Services (Step Functions Lambda EC2 DesirableEMR) 2 -5 yrs
Experience with Deployment Pipelines - 2-5yrs
Troubleshooting and Debugging experience 2 -5yrs

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 purch...