Sr Systems Engineer

Apex Fintech Solutions • Austin, TX

20h • $115,000 - $143,750 • Hybrid

About The Position

We have an exciting opening for a bright, talented and passionate Senior Systems Engineer to join our infrastructure team. In this role you will build, implement and maintain Linux based application systems in a developing DevOps culture. You will collaborate with other members of our team to ensure availability, performance, reliability, and security for our users and clients.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field (or equivalent work experience) required; advanced degree preferred
• 5+ years of experience in a similar role with experience in Cloud environments (i.e. cloud migration, cloud management, cloud architecture) and hand on Linux Engineering and Administration.
• Experience with infrastructure related software, including VMWare, noSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB), containerization (e.g. docker), orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes), SAN storage and backup
• Experience with code management tools such as Git.
• Experience with TCP/IP networking troubleshooting and tools
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible and SaltStack).
• Experience writing and maintaining python/powershell/shell scripts/other scripts that automate tech operations.
• Experience with Dell server hardware.
• Excellent organizational and follow-up skills with strong attention to detail.
• Ability learn new skills to keep up with cutting edge technologies and evolving skill sets.
• Ability to work in a team environment with much collaboration.
• Ability to operate with a sense of purpose and urgency.
• Be passionate about troubleshooting, debugging, and automation.
• Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Expected to respond to alerts and outages; participate in periodic 24x7 on-call schedule.
• Skill in providing top notch, responsive customer service to internal and external clients.

Responsibilities

• Operate and continuously improve Linux systems engineering and administration.
• Deployment and automation of applications via Salt & Ansible.
• Troubleshoot, diagnose and resolve server events and user incidents relating to Linux systems.
• Engage in detailed planning, change control and thorough testing to ensure performance, availability and stability.
• Security related activities, system hardening, patching, vulnerability threat management and mitigation.
• Manage and deploy system monitoring and management tools such as DataDog, LogicMonitor, Sentinel One, SNMP, etc.
• Design and create automation to execute tasks and/or processes using scripting languages (Shell Scripting, Powershell, PERL, Python).
• Create and maintain clear and accurate system documentation.
• Ensure high performance and reliability of production systems by performing system monitoring and analysis, performance tuning, and troubleshooting system hardware, software, and applications.
• Partner with Software Engineering teams to develop proactive maintenance plans, schedule maintenance windows, implement the changes, and follow-up.
• Maintain non-proprietary application stack (Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Zookeeper).
• Oversee infrastructure environment (VMWare, Storage, Backups, etc).

Benefits

• We offer a robust package of employee perks and benefits, including healthcare benefits (medical, dental and vision, EAP), competitive PTO, 401k match, parental leave, and HSA contribution match.
• We also provide our employees with a paid subscription to the Calm app and offer generous external learning and tuition reimbursement benefits.
• At AFS , we offer a hybrid work schedule for most roles that allows employees to have the flexibility of working from home and one of our primary offices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level