Senior Systems Engineer II

Description

The role covers designing, running and steadily improving cloud-based enterprise system environments.

You will help plan projects, keep systems reliable, secure and fast, and lead the fixing of complicated system problems on your own.

You will also support change management and push for automation and operational efficiency in a DevOps setting.

The company combines quality information, large data sets and analytics to support science, research, health education, interactive learning and clinical practice.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and fix complex system and performance problems in cloud environments
• Watch system health and act early on threats to stability, performance and security
• Design and put in place configuration changes, improvements and automation
• Run change management work, including assessing impact
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code and operational scripts
• Work with development, support teams and vendors to deliver dependable solutions
• Review the work of less experienced engineers and guide them
• Help improve system monitoring, alerting and reporting
• Keep systems ready for recovery and lead incident resolution
• Help with capacity planning and scaling infrastructure in AWS
• Apply security best practices and check compliance with internal standards
• Write and keep up clear documentation for systems, processes and procedures

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, networking, IAM and EKS
• Solid knowledge of Linux and UNIX systems
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Scripting and automation skills in tools such as Bash or Python
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Knowledge of monitoring and performance tuning tools such as CloudWatch or New Relic
• Experience with incident, problem and change management processes
• Understanding of security practices covering IAM, patching and vulnerability management
• Knowledge of system recovery and disaster recovery strategies

Conditions

Flexible working hours, so you can shift your working times across the day to suit your productivity

Equal opportunity hiring: the company is committed to a fair and accessible process, and accommodation requests can be raised through its applicant support form

Benefits

• Comprehensive pension plan
• Generous vacation allowance and the option of sabbatical leave
• Maternity, paternity, adoption and family care leave
• Wellbeing initiatives, study assistance and shared parental leave
• Internal communities and networks
• Various employee discounts
• Recruitment introduction reward
• Global employee assistance program
• Country-specific benefits available for your location