Sr. Systems Engineer, Linux Sony Pictures
Culver City, CA, United States
The Senior Systems Engineer will be a high impact individual contributor under the Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) IT department. As a Senior Systems Engineer, you are a core member of a team accountable for the uptime and management of all global SPE Information Technology Infrastructure.
The Senior Systems Engineer will provide planning, recommendations and be responsible for maintenance of all hardware and software for SPE IT Infrastructure and successful execution of these strategies both internally and externally. In general, responsibilities will include any requirements regarding the infrastructure environment, from day-to-day systems administration to planning and management of the SPE Infrastructure.
Responsibilities
IT Operations Support
Day to day operations on life-cycle management of on-premises and cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and observability
Maintain / establish compliant infrastructure as code (IaC) automation best practices leveraging Terraform and Ansible continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline
Maintain core infrastructure platform availability and security
Be a key active participant in IT change advisory board to advise on production change impact, acceptance, and event management
Develop / maintain system and software configuration standards
Ensure and validate infrastructure backup and restoration
Identify, resolve, and escalate business issues as appropriate
Manage internal and external customer relationship
Manage after hours and on-call support
Systems Engineering Support
Life-cycle management of IT infrastructure in accordance with company governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) practices and processes
Maintain and manage infrastructure key performance indicators (KPIs) for IT business value metrics
Maintain and manage secure and compliant infrastructure in accordance with company policies
Maintain and manage SPE compute hardening on all support platforms
Manage outages, communications, identify root cause and resolve infrastructure within allowed service levels
Life-cycle management of documented operational procedures and policies
Collaborate with architecture team to refactor technology stack to increase productivity and efficiency
Develop and maintain project plans for small to mid-sized systems projects
Provide oral and written status reports to IT management and customers
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree preferred
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), VMWare Certified Profession (VCP), and AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional or DevOps Engineer) are a plus
7+ years of experience as Linux/Unix systems administrator
5+ years of experience with virtualization technology (VMWare)
5+ years of experience with programming (Python / shell)
3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (Ansible / Terraform)
2+ years of experience with hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
3+ years of experience with the Citrix Platform
3+ years of experience and knowledge with Networking, Storage Area Network (SAN), Microsoft Windows, Directory Services (Microsoft Active Directory/LDAP), Security and Identity (AAA), and Databases
High impact player.
Strong interpersonal skills are required. Ability to work effectively with team members, clients, and other areas of the IT environment.
Strong written and oral communications.
Excellent problem-solving abilities, strong decision-making skills and make sound judgment decisions.
Handle multiple tasks and be flexible in a fast-paced environment.
Deliver on time.
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