Position: AWS Senior System Engineer
Company: PsyQuation
Experience required: 3y
Category: DevOps
English level: upper
Published: 2021-08-01T00:00:00+03:00

The Senior Systems Engineer will work as part of a globally dispersed small team, providing second & third level support for the Axi Infrastructure team, working alongside other System Engineers to support and improve the systems that deliver the AXI services through AWS and Azure services.

The Senior Systems Engineer will help ensure the Axi systems are highly available, scalable, resilient, secure and appropriately monitored.

When designing solutions, the Senior Systems Engineer will ensure that systems are designed and optimized for high availability and disaster recovery.

The Senior System Engineer is expected to have good all-round IT knowledge, and will provide third level support for the service desk team for AWS, Azure, LINUX, Windows OS, Networking, and general IT issues, while also actively working on tickets and mentoring junior members. You will be expected to carry out (and improve) day-to-day maintenance tasks, day to day documentation, provide on call services and any reporting duties.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPEREINCE:	
•	2+ years strong experience of administration skills with AWS in EC2, VPC, LBs, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Route 53, ECS.
•	3+ years strong experience managing and maintaining current versions of windows desktops and windows 2016 servers onwards.
•	Experience with Azure administration is a bonus.
•	Basic Scripting skills in Python, BASH or PowerShell would be an advantageous.
•	Fully versed with Office 365 administration
•	Experience with Networking and configuring network products will be highly regarded, Juniper or FortiGate preferred. 

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES: 
	•	Experience in a similar position in an enterprise-class environment
•	Installation, configuration, and maintenance of difference environments.
•	Technical investigation analysis and diagnosis of incidents.
•	Incident investigation, root cause analysis, error diagnosis.
•	Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
•	Proven analytical and creative problem-solving abilities. 
•	Systems Design and Architecture experience
•	Providing technical guidance and mentoring to junior members of the team
•	The ability to write professional technical documentation
•	Ability to conduct research into systems issues and products as required. 
•	Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language. 

DESIRED SKILLLS AND EXPEREIENCE:	
•	ITIL and other technical Certifications will be highly regarded
•	Experience with Linux desirable
•	Exposure to CI/CD highly regarded
•	Exposure to IaC CloudFormation, Terraform
•	Exposure to Jenkins
•	Experience with Docker and containerisation highly regarded

SOFT SKILLS:	
•	Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.
•	Highly self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail. 
•	Good information security awareness.
•	Able to prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment. 
•	Willing to complete out of hours work on occasions.