Systems Engineer

Responsibilities/Job Duties: 

• Manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure for the organization 
• Install, configure, and test operating systems, application software, and system management tools 
• Mentor and train other engineers throughout the company and seek to continually improve processes companywide 
• Work closely with engineering professionals within the company to maintain hardware and software needed for projects to be completed efficiently 
• Provide clear goals for all areas of a project and develop steps to oversee their timely execution 
• Be proactive about challenges or constraints within a project and seek to manage them accordingly 
• Provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions including materials, manpower and time necessary 
• Assist other department engineers in creating practical demonstrations of proposed solutions and demonstrating them to other members of the team 
• Evaluate the existing systems and provide technical direction to IT support staff 
• Oversee the development of customized software and hardware requirement 
• Deal with work process, optimization methods, and risk management tools in the given projects to successfully meet the requirements of the stakeholders 
• Install and configure operating systems, software, and hardware components, and clearly document the design, maintenance, and support procedures for routine tasks to leverage IT support staff 
• Routinely test software for bugs, redundancies, and security issues 
• Conduct high-level root-cause analysis for service interruption and establish preventive measures 
• Create reports and documentation outlining findings and solutions; oversee the overall backup strategy and daily operations for secure backups and restore testing 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field 
• Experience with or knowledge of programming languages and operating systems; current equipment and technologies, enterprise backup and recovery procedures, system performance-monitoring tools, active directories, virtualization, HTTP traffic, content delivery, and caching 
• Experience in project management, application design and integration, and cloud computing  
• Expertise in creating, analyzing, and repairing large-scale distributed systems 
• Excellent communication skills 
• Attention to detail and great organizational skills