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 Job position:  SR Systems Engineer

Job Location :  Sterling, VA

Job Duration: 6+ Months

Experience: 9+

Visa Status: H1B/GC/Citizen

Skills Required: Chassis/Blade products (HP C7000, BL 460c... ) , virtualization technology, automated configuration management systems

Responsibilities/Key Tasks

• Understand how servers, operating systems, storage and networks function, perform and scale. 
• Possess great troubleshooting and problem analysis skills. 
• Drive technical innovation and efficiency in infrastructure operations via automation. 
• Design systems management solutions using automation and self-repair rather than relying on alarming and human intervention. 
• Create processes that enhance operational workflow and provide positive customer impact. 
• Dive deep to resolve problems at their root, looking for failure patterns amenable to long-term solutions via simplification and automation. 
• Avoid re-inventing the wheel and prefer appropriately simple, repeatable solutions over more complex and failure prone ones. 
• Act as a technical point of escalation & mentor for junior staff and other team. 
• Recognize and adopt best practices in documentation, testing, security, operational support at scale, and efficient use of resources. 
• Develop appropriate metrics to demonstrate performance at improving operational efficiency. 

Qualifications/Education Requirement

• B.S. Degree or equivalent industry experience.
• 5+ years of experience in Linux systems (Red hat, OEL, Centos…)
• Virtualization experience using virtualization technology
• Experience with SAN attached hosts
• Experience with Chassis/Blade products (HP C7000, BL 460c... ) 
• Must have demonstrated strong skills in supporting mission critical, 24x7 online transaction processing (OLTP) systems
• Experience with automated configuration management systems (e.g., Puppet, Chef )
• Knowledge of scripting for day to day Systems Administration tasks required (e.g., shell, Perl, Python, etc.)
• Experience with security best practices in server configuration, tool development, and access controls. 

Strong written and verbal communication & customer interaction skills are required

Thanks & Regards,

Frank

IsoftechInc.

Direct: 703-595-4864

Email: frank@isoftechus.com