Systems Engineer

Bidtellect is a fast growing Native Demand Side Advertising Platform with an international Infrastructure presence. We’re looking for a talented Systems Engineer to join our highly experienced Infrastructure Team. Qualified candidates will have a background in IT, Data Center Systems Engineering, and/or Systems Engineering and Analysis. This position requires strategic thinking to meet the dynamic business requirements in an expanding and evolving ecosystem. We’re looking for someone who works well in a team environment and appreciates a great work life balance.

Requirements

• Strong background in installing, configuring and troubleshooting Windows & Linux based environments
• Strong background in Linux Enterprise and Windows Server administration
• Strong background in VMware or Virtualization Administration
• Strong background in Windows Services such as Active Directory, DNS, Radius, LDAP, NCP, etc
• Solid understanding of the OSI Network Layers(TCP/IP Stack)
• Working understanding of Networking, including VLANs, Switching, Routing and Subnetting
• Comprehensive understanding of Cloud Platforms, including SAN Environments
• Experience with Windows Services & Clustering, MSSQL, Radius, LDAP, etc
• Experience with Code and Scripting (.NET, Python, Bash, Powershell)
• Experience with AWS Services and management
• Experience managing User Workstations and User Accounts in a distributed environment
• Experience with Data Lake environments such as Cloudera, Hadoop or MapR
• Experience with Data Streaming environments such as Kafka, Streams or Aerospike
• Experience with noSQL Database Platforms such as Couchbase or Vertica
• Knowledge of Best Practices of IT operations in an always available service
• Understanding of Security Best Practices in a multi user environment
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail
• Hunger to learn new technologies and adapt to an evolving environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Systems Administration or a Minimum of 5+ years of experience in an Enterprise Environment

Nice to haves

• Experience with Ansible, Puppet, Chef or other automation tools
• Experience with Dell and Cisco UCS Server Platform
• Experience with Application Load Balancers
• Experience working in a Datacenter Environment
• Experience working with Virtual and Hardware Firewalls
• Experience with monitoring systems such as Datadog and Solarwinds
• Experience building Technical Visio Diagrams
• Experience with IIS configuration, Octopus, JumpCloud, Visual Cron, ManageEngine or other automated patching platforms
• Experience with PEN Testing
• Certifications or Specialized Training in regards to Computer Systems Engineering and Administration

What you’ll be doing

• Managing and monitoring all installed systems and infrastructure to identify and resolve potential issues
• Deploy and maintain Security and Management Software to end users
• Install, configure and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools for virtual and physical server platforms
• Troubleshooting and identify system issues and work with developers and/or end users to resolution
• Write, maintain and adjust custom scripts to increase efficiency of system administration
• Maintain patch management of all systems
• Analyze and deploy systems requests from Development Teams
• Participates in capacity and scalability planning
• Research, develop, and implement new technologies and practices
• Leverage or build appropriate technical tools to perform administration tasks, root-cause analysis and service restoration such as , failover, log interpretation, and performance monitoring
• On-Call rotation
• Limited internal help desk support