Systems Engineer (Skan AI)

Role: Systems Engineer (Skan AI)

Location: Concord CA

Duration: Long-Term Contract

Responsibilities:

• Deployment Planning & Coordination: Lead end-to-end customer Gateway deployments - from strategic planning and infrastructure readiness validation to installation and activation.
• Infrastructure Validation: Confirm customer environments meet requirements for networking (TCP/IP firewall DNS) storage and computing before deployment.
• Connectivity Testing & Assurance: Conduct thorough end-to-end connectivity testing across Skan stack components (VA Portal Gateway).
• Technical Transition Management: Facilitate smooth transitions from development to Production liaising with stakeholders to set and meet enterprise technical standards.
• Documentation & Standards: Produce and maintain comprehensive documentation - architecture diagrams network configurations troubleshooting guides and deployment workflows.
• System Monitoring & Health Maintenance: Set up and utilize monitoring and logging tools to proactively identify and resolve performance or stability issues.

Qualifications:

• 5 7 years in Systems or Infrastructure Engineering with a strong track record in large scale deployment projects.
• 3 years of hands-on experience with OpenShift/Kubernetes preferably in on-prem environments. Experience with containerization (Docker Kubernetes).
• Demonstrated understanding of OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) architecture in large Enterprise Environment.
• Knowledgeable with various assets in OCP environment such as
  • Pods Deployments StatefulSets Services Routes Namespaces / Projects
  • ConfigMaps Secrets
  • Persistent Volumes / Persistent Volume Claims
  • Resource requests/limits
  • Node cluster and container troubleshooting
• Strong experience in doing RCA for
  • Pod crashes
  • Restart loops
  • Containerized Databases instances such as Postgres Star Rocks
• Networking & Security: Solid knowledge of networking (TCP/IP DNS DHCP) firewall configurations and security best practices.
• Monitoring Tools: Familiarity with system monitoring logging and incident remediation frameworks.
• Core Competencies: Strong project coordination proactive problem-solving and cross-functional communication skills are essential.
• 3 years of experience working with PostgreSQL
• Strong scripting/automation abilities in Python or similar.