Job ID: SC15 Manager, Systems Engineers - (Santa Clara, CA)

Reward ~ USD 3500

A pre-IPO company seeks Manager, Systems Engineers:


JOB TITLE: Manager, Systems Engineers

DEPARTMENT: IT

REPORTS TO: Director of IT, Production Operations




POSITION SUMMARY (OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY):



He/She will manage a team responsible for the maintenance and growth of company’s systems infrastructure & services. This is a hands-on technical position that will be involved in the operational tasks and projects in addition to mentoring their direct reports.





ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Additional duties may be assigned. (KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY):



Oversee, monitor and support of the everyday operations of the production operations infrastructure.
Plan, test, and implement new systems and/or rebuild existing systems as required. Architect, engineer, and design new environments and service infrastructure.
Develop and maintain documents on architecture, configuration, policies, processes and procedures.
Maintain disaster recovery plan and all associated system backups and testing.
Design and support "0-Downtime" solutions, automating and improving on existing and new processes.
Project management or serve as technical member/lead on global infrastructure projects.
Develop and present architectures, business cases, designs, and projects.
Deliver quality solutions with minimal resources within aggressive timeframes. Consistently deliver tasks, ticket resolution and projects on time and on budget. Troubleshoot, recommend and implement enhancements to the infrastructure.
Ensure that security issues are addressed in a pro-active manner including issues such as hacking, viruses, email abuse, protection of sensitive data, etc.
Scheduling, performing and maintaining data storage, backups and recovery.
Share on call responsibilities for 24x7 operations of production sites and maintaining uptime metrics.
Perform regular releases to our staging and production environments adhering to strict change control procedures.
Identify and recommend future technologies.


QUALIFICATIONS:



Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent experience.
Minimum 7-10 years in System Administration/Engineering.
Managed team (3-7 people), acting as technical lead on projects
Managed large scale environments (200+ servers).
Highly organized and able to multi-task.
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written across all user levels.
Expert in Windows 2000/2003 operating systems
Expert in critical applications (IIS, AD).
Expert in Active Directory, DHCP, WINS, and DNS.
Expert in Server related technology (i.e., Clustering, RAID systems, backup, SCSI devices etc)
Expert in Server hardware (HP/Compaq, DELL, SAN)
Good knowledge and understanding of Systems Automation.
Good knowledge of Networking (TCP, UDP, LAN, WAN)
Good knowledge of Batch/VBScript/PERL scripting.
Good knowledge of Security (RSA, IPSEC, IP protocol, ACLs, IDS, IPS)
Knowledge of Unix Environments (Redhat, Suse) a plus
Strong technical/analytical skills.
Project Management skills including setting dates, tasks, milestones, budgeting, and scheduling resources.
Team player, self-starter, goal oriented, open minded, flexible and people oriented.

Job Type: Full time

Rate: DOE

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