Systems Engineer with Devops

Job Title: Systems Engineer with Devops
Position Type: Contract
Location: Boston MA (Remote)

Job Description
As a Technical Operations team member you will be part of a global team providing second and third level support for the GlobalLink applications. You will be involved in projects which will optimize the current services as well as work on building the next generation infrastructure to support new initiatives.
Successful candidates will have a broad knowledge across multiple areas of information technology with the ability to quickly diagnose and remediate service issues. We are looking for innovative and enthusiastic candidates who are selfmotivated and able to drive projects from beginning to end.

Responsibilities:
Provide second and third level support for the GlobalLink applications suite.
Quickly diagnose and resolve issues across multiple functional areas (server network storage etc).
Execute Change Management tasks in Production UAT and Development environments.
Contribute towards ongoing migration tasks in the areas of Maintainability Performance and High Availability.
Monitor system performance and make recommendations on how to improve performance.
Must work closely with Engineering and Development teams in order to deliver a highly available and resilient system.
Participate in oncall rotation and perform weekend maintenance tasks.

Experience/Skills Required: Total 15 years of IT experience:
10 years of experience in any scripting language (Perl Python BASH).
Strong familiarity with web servers and their inner workings (specifically Apache) and development of CGI scripts.
Experience supporting a production application.
Linux system administration knowledge (preferable Red Hat or CentOS).
Basic knowledge of networking and troubleshooting network components. (TCP UDP Load Balancing NAT FW etc.)
Strong troubleshooting skills (ability to detect isolate and resolve issues anywhere from the kernel up to the application and network layers)
Working knowledge of cloud is must with good experience with automation. AWS is preferred.

Additional Skills:
Knowledge of other Artifactory management tools like JFrog Nexus
Knowledge of any CI/CD tools.
Knowledge of DevOps tools like Jenkins Ansible Artifactory Docker and Kubernetes.
Infrastructure deployment via terraform.
Experience with running and troubleshooting Java applications.

What are the top 3 musthaves you will be looking for in the resumes/interviews for this role What type of software skills is an absolute must have

Application Support on Linux Operating System DEVOPS Expertise System Administration Skills

What are the top 3 nice to have that would separate a successful candidate from their competition

Automation Experience Networking Skills Monitoring Set up

What type of background would you like this person to have How many years of experience are required

15 years

What are the working hours time zone

Pacific Time Zone

What is the duration of this contract and is there a chance it will be extended

Initially 12months with a possible 6months extension if approved

What training will be provided for this contractor and what are first day expectations

Candidate will be trained on the application and system inventory domain knowledge during the first 2 to 3 weeks. First Day expectations is to read and go through the documentation provided by the team

What is the day to day of the person going to look like Please be specific.

Support daily operational tasks coming to the teams queue. Support cross functional teams with issue troubleshooting and project level tasks. Supporting new initiatives like onboarding applications to new platforms setting up monitoring designing system based on project needs