Senior IT Systems Engineer
| Company | General Matter |
|---|---|
| Location | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering discipline with 3+ years of systems administration experience; OR 5+ years of professional systems administration experience in lieu of a degree.
- Experience with servers in physical and virtualized environments.
- 1+ years of experience with Active Directory, Kerberos, Entra ID, and multi-platform authentication/identification environments
- 1+ years of experience (including the ability to setup, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot) with Windows-based systems and services in both physical and virtual environments.
- 1+ years of experience in monitoring mission-critical enterprise environments
- Familiarity with Google Workspace products.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with General Matter engineers to gather requirements, research, evaluate, design, plan, deploy, and support Microsoft enterprise software platforms and related technologies in a world-class environment that meets the needs of the demanding General Matter engineering teams.
- Manage and maintain highly resilient, high-performance, scalable, and flexible systems.
- Make recommendations, justify, and implement improvements using an accepted change control methodology.
- Work within diverse groups to design and deliver creative solutions and resolve problems in a timely and proactive manner by interacting with internal business units.
- Define, document and follow standards and best practices for systems design, testing, and implementation.
- Responsible for the health of the IT core infrastructure: Ensure uptime of critical systems to the business, Drive improvements to optimize security and performance of the infrastructure, Build automation at scale to improve overall efficiency.
Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in creating repeatable, reliable, scalable systems architectures, with high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and statistics/metrics collection.
- Understanding of developing web, python, Powershell, and bash scripting applications and build processes.
- Experience with linux administration.
- Experience with automation platforms (Ansible, Salt, Chef).
- Networking experience in IPv4, IPSEC VPN, SSL-VPN, SD-WAN, switching, routing, firewalls and HA architecture.
- Comfortable working with mission critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities.
- Excellent communications skills with the ability to communicate with internal/external customers, vendors, management etc. in both formal and informal situations.