System Engineer (Cloud Operations Support) - remote

Remote, USA

Contract to hire

Posted 10/22/2024

Job Description

A remote contract-to-hire opportunity is available for a Systems Engineer with 5 or more years' experience providing application support in a Linux based cloud environment. The SE will install, and support customer applications based on WebSphere and OpenShift in accordance with NIST and ISO security frameworks.

• Prospective candidates must have excellent technical skills utilizing tools and utilities to install, troubleshoot, and resolve issues.
• Excellent communication skills, teamwork, and deep technical understanding of IT system in a Linux environment are required.
• All work is remote, and candidate must be physically based in the USA.
• The work is fast paced presents a tremendous opportunity to work and collaborate with highly talented people.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provision and support high-availability and complex IBM Applications.
  • Specifically, Maximo and TRIRIGA on WebSphere, and Maximo Application Suite (MAS) on OpenShift
• Make recommendation for memory, CPU, and JVM clusters to support anticipated customer user and operational requirements.
• Assist with testing, troubleshooting and problem remediation of system related issues.
• Work within a tightly controlled change management environment
• Perform routine Application administration tasks (Install, upgrade, patch, monitor).
• Work effectively with internal security engineering team providing guidance, interpretation, and remediation of scanning results.
• Ability to develop and interpret system architectures and data flow diagrams.
• Effectively communicate complex technical information in both verbal and written format to non-technical project stakeholders.
• Create technical documentation for application system architecture and system specification.
• Collaboration with Cloud and Security engineering, Linux administrators, Cloud Architect.
• Support Disaster Recovery and Incident Response testing/validation exercises.
• Support 3PAO activities for Annual Assessments, Significant Change Events.

Skills and Experience Must Have:

• 5+ yrs experience performing application support functions as described above
• Demonstrated experience with server operating systems (Linux and Windows), but strong Redhat Linux experience.
• Technical and analytical writing skills required.
• Strong communication and organizational skills required.
• Must be able to multi-task, work independently, but at the same time contribute and work effectively towards team objectives.

Skills and Experience (Should have some of the following):

• Supporting Maximo, TRIRIGA, or MAS
• Supporting RDBMS (DB2/Oracle)
• Implementing SAML
• Working in AWS or Azure
• Supporting and participating in annual and significant change assessments with 3PAO.
• Knowledge of basic network topology (ipv4, subnets, gateways, routing tables)
• Knowledge of security related activities involving system/network hardening, PENTEST, IDS, VPN, Load Balancers, Virtualization (hypervisors, virtual machines, provisioning), Enterprise Backup/Recovery, DR/COOP, High Availability, DNS, LDAP, SSO, SSL, FTP, Web Services
• Ansible, Rundeck, Bash

Education and Credentials:

• B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or equivalent
  • Education can be substituted by sufficient experience.
• Experience as an SE with 5+ years of experience in Cloud Operations and Administration
• Must be able to pass security background check.
• IBM Maximo/TRIRIGA/MAS certifications (extra credit)
• AWS/Azure certifications (extra credit)

Job ID:

1008022

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