Infrastructure Engineer / System Administrator

Siemens • Fremont, CA

448d • $101,200 - $182,200 • Remote

About The Position

The Infrastructure Engineer/System Administrator role at Siemens Industry Software Inc. focuses on providing essential system support to enhance the productivity of developers working on advanced engineering software. This position involves the administration of systems within the Siemens PLM Software, ensuring a productive development environment for the R&D team. The role requires expertise in managing Linux, Windows, and VMWare systems, and emphasizes the importance of quality system support to meet project objectives.

Requirements

• BS degree in a computer-related field or equivalent experience in a computer environment.
• 5+ years experience with the ability to perform system administration for Linux, Windows, and VMWare environments.
• Familiarity with Dell, HP server Hardware and Client Hardware, support and update with FW/BIOS, working with vendor to fix server/client issues.
• Good communication skills and ability to work with multiple teams.
• Excellent customer service attitude.
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team.
• Experience working in a multiple vendor platform environment.
• Effective written and oral communication skills.
• Knowledge of computer hardware and software components and their interaction with operating system software, and excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships at all levels.
• Can conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Working knowledge of shell scripting, batch programming, and PowerShell, web programming.
• Working knowledge of the following operating systems: CentOS, Red Hat, SUSE, Windows client OS, Windows server OS, and VMWare Technologies.
• Experience directly supporting system needs of development team, including Git based source code management, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, and other tools used in modern development pipelines.
• Familiar with security administration, anti-virus software, and VPN's.
• Experience leveraging system configuration tools such as Chef and Puppet.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity working with Microsoft Active Directory.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure support for various events like training, user conferences, and product testing.
• Working knowledge of supporting high performance cluster environments based on Windows or Linux.
• Working knowledge of central file storage systems such as Network Appliance, Nimble, and other high availability file storage.
• Must be able to manage multiple projects with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• System administration, monitoring, upgrading, maintenance, installation, setup, configuration, testing and deployment of systems within Linux and Windows environments.
• Working with other groups to develop and ensure consistency of internal policies and procedures while maintaining security procedures at the site.
• Communicating clearly, both verbally and in writing, regarding issues and/or requirements, and evaluating new technologies and methods.
• Ensure security hardening of systems and critical patches are being applied as necessary.
• Work with other IT personnel to ensure networking, office automation, and other enterprise services are working properly at your site.
• Provide required updates and maintenance to the local high performance virtualization cluster.
• Provide backup support for virtualization environments at other sites such as VMWare cluster environments.
• Participate in cross-site activities including process improvements, standards development, and other global projects.
• Provide consultation to development groups on server and other hardware purchases.

Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements (hybrid work model).
• Health and wellness benefits including paid sick leave, paid parental leave, and PTO or non-accrued flexible vacation.
• Performance-based compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Machinery Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 10,001+ employees