Staff IT Systems Engineer

About the Role

The Staff Systems Engineer will work with our team to support a wide range of IT systems and services, including the manufacturing virtualization environment. As the Staff Systems Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing server applications. As a Staff Systems Engineer, you will work in a fast-paced environment and apply your technical knowledge to solve issues that will span multiple IT environments.

What You will Do

• Participate in projects and engineer new systems.

• Maintain and develop all Linux infrastructure for a 24/7 uptime service.

• Monitor performance of critical servers and applications and perform corrections as needed.

• Manage best practices on Linux systems and services across the manufacturing floor.

• Upgrade and maintenance of hardware/software in the IT infrastructure

• Engage and manage 3rd-party vendors to achieve expedient resolution

• Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, hotfixes on Linux infrastructure.

• Create and maintain system documentation for specifications, designs, procedures, and logs.

• Document all processes, system changes/fixes, and issues.

• Collaborate with other teams to develop automation strategies and deployment processes

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.

• Minimum 5+ years of working experience as a Linux Administrator.

• Experience with designing and managing high-availability services

• Experience with system engineering on an enterprise-level, highly integrated, complex IT environment.

• Experience with Linux encryption, Samba, Bash (shell scripts), Perl, Python scripting, Linux patching + dependency resolution and performance improvements.

• Ability to evaluate security requirements and perform system hardening

• Enhance processes and procedures to perform automated daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs, such as backups.

• Experience with Linux services, including but not limited to DHCP, TFTP, DNS, SSH

• Experience with CentOS, Ubuntu, RedHat Linux.

• Linux certification a plus (RHCE, RHCT, LPIC, Linux+)

• Experience with creating Ansible Playbooks and/or running and troubleshooting Playbooks

• Experience managing, installing, and configuring complex virtual environments with High Availability in VMWare ESXi

• Experience supporting enterprise storage solutions including but not limited to, vSANs, LUNs, NetApp, QNAP, NAS, Pure Storage, EMC.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making capabilities

• Support daily backup and recovery operations

About ZT Systems

At ZT Systems, you'll get to do work you are proud of alongside smart, passionate people. Every day, there are opportunities to collaborate with the best in the industry to design, build, and deliver impactful solutions to world-class customers. Along the way, you will gain hands-on experience in a face-paced environment that's challenging, rewarding, and career-defining.

A culture built around our values we work hard and think fast. We view challenges as opportunities-to do better, push harder, and be faster than we were the day before. When we fail, we learn from it and move on together. And when we succeed, we use the momentum to go even further. We create value with everything we do, building the foundation of today-and transforming the future of tomorrow.

Join ZT Systems and help us build technology infrastructure that connects the world.

What We Offer

When you join ZT, you'll enjoy a range of world-class, inclusive employee benefits designed to grow with you and our company. From competitive compensation to 401K matching to comprehensive health & wellness programs and tuition reimbursement, ZT Systems offers industry leading benefits packages for eligible employees designed to help you get the most out of life.

ZT Group Int'l. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. ZT Systems provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.