Systems Engineer (Emerging Career)- Remote

Systems Engineer (Emerging Career)- Remote or Hybrid

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About the job
The Technology, Infrastructure, and Architecture team is looking for a Sr. Associate Systems Engineer responsible for managing, maintaining, prioritizing, and supporting the compute and technology used by R&D. You'll have an opportunity to continue to grow your skills as we are always adapting to the needs of our organization as technology changes. Our team is responsible for providing SAS R&D with the needed resources to produce the best software for customers!

As a Systems Engineer (Emerging Career)- you will:

• Support various aspects of R&D infrastructure operations, including standardizing technology approaches, implementing patch management solutions, normalizing logging and authentication, and implementing operating system upgrades and version management methodologies
• Drive down technical debt by migrating applications to new systems
• Enforce technical standards to ensure technical solutions are executed according to a prescribed design and architecture.
• Work on a team of high-performing experts to provide the R&D population with needed resources to provide our SAS customer base with the best software in the industry!
• Plan for and remediate any security findings related to R&D networks and computing resources following industry best practices.
• Actively collaborate with other technical R&D and CIS teams to ensure that all production-level R&D solutions remain highly performant and redundant to meet availability requirements for end users and service consumers.
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization's secure software development goals.

Role Competencies:

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to use technical and other resources to meet goals and objectives of the organization.
• Ability to work effectively across multiple teams and disciplines.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Applies knowledge of technology to improve work processes and results.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related quantitative field.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with Linux systems administration
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
• Understanding of infrastructure and cloud concepts
• Willingness to learn new technologies
• Experience with scripting languages (Bash, Python, Ansible, etc)
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues and determine root cause
• You're curious, passionate, authentic and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Preferred qualifications

• Familiarity with IAC, CI/CD concepts
• Experience automating tasks
• Experience using source control solutions like GitHub or GitLab.
• Ability to triage requests with multiple admin resource groups

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• Explore hundreds of resources in our Career Development Resource Library, organized by topic.

Additional Information:

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