What does a system engineer do?

Systems engineers play an integral role in the success of businesses in many industries.

They lay the foundation or blueprint for systems to begin conception, production, and realization of valuable operations. The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) dates the origin of systems engineering back to World War II (1940s) at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Today, systems engineering is a process that includes identifying a problem based on consumer needs and developing a solution that is constantly re-evaluated throughout its execution. In short, systems engineers monitor the performance of systems and continually assess all stages of operations to ensure that a problem is solved.

The American Society of system engineer reported that systems engineers’ possess an in-demand ability to apply an interdisciplinary approach to ensure technical needs are translated into step-by-step processes—in effect, producing efficient and effective results. A systems engineer will often collaborate with a project manager and the engineering team, and take the lead to translate between the two to facilitate the achievement of a successful system. The systems engineer will also work throughout each stage of the given system or process, from design and development to validation and operation, onto quantitative risk assessment, often focusing on performance, testing, scheduling, and costs. Due to the broad nature of the work, a systems engineer may work in virtually any industry, from software development and robotics, to nanotechnology or civil engineering.

Because of the type of work involved, not surprisingly, those who hope to pursue a career as a systems engineer should be highly proficient in math and science-related topics. Additionally, many systems engineers will be in near constant communication with engineering teams, project managers, and other stakeholders in the project. Ultimately, aspiring systems engineers should have highly developed interpersonal skills.

Systems engineering can be a truly rewarding field. Read on to discover what it means to be in systems engineering, including the common everyday tasks, typical employers, specializations, and the work environment.

Engineer Responsibilities include:

·         Managing and monitoring all installed systems and infrastructure

·         Installing, configuring, testing and maintaining operating systems, application software and system management tools

·         Ensuring the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability

Job brief

We are looking for a Systems Engineer to help build out, maintain, and troubleshoot our rapidly expanding infrastructure.

What does a systems engineer do?

You will be part of a talented team of engineers that demonstrate superb technical competency, delivering mission critical infrastructure and ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance and security. Qualified systems engineers will have a background in IT, computer systems engineering, or systems engineering and analysis.

Responsibilities

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      Manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure

·         Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools

·         Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability

·         Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes

·         Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies

·         Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks

·         Participate in the design of information and operational support systems

·         Provide 2nd and 3rd level support

·         Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution

Requirements

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      BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

·         Proven working experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting UNIX /Linux based environments.

·         Solid experience in the administration and performance tuning of application stacks (e.g.,Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, Ruby, NGINX)

·         Solid Cloud experience, preferably in AWS

·         Experience with virtualization and containerization (e.g., VMware, Virtual Box)

·         Experience with monitoring systems

·         Experience with automation software (e.g., Puppet, cfengine, Chef)

·         Solid scripting skills (e.g., shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python)

·         Solid networking knowledge (OSI network layers, TCP/IP)