SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION SR SPECIALIST
West Corporation

Job Info

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For this opening we will consider candidates from the following locations: Boston,MA,US |

Job Description

Day to day responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborate with Dev, QA, and DevOps teams and complete work as assigned for the Company's products
• Using Terraform, work in our Cloud environments (services offered from AWS and GCP) and infrastructure services (EC2, serverless services, S3, etc services offered by AWS) to build and manage the Company infrastructure
• Very good at troubleshooting issues by reviewing information at hand, developing detailed implementation plans with automation and test details, and mentoring team members
• Pro-active communication of technical problems and needs
• Follow and improve our vulnerability and compliance process for Operating Systems and cloud environments
• Join team daily stand up meetings and collaborate with peers and teams within the organization
• Create and improve our Ansible playbooks
• Setup and provide support for logging and monitoring our infrastructure in the cloud
• Maintain, expand and improve existing Continuous Integration, testing and deployment of web applications and services.
• Ensuring the highest possible availability of live systems under your remit, including willingness to work out-of-hours in urgent circumstances
• Be on a rotational on-call schedule
• Adhering to company software standards and enforcing company security standards
• Perform other duties as assigned by a supervisor or team lead depending on severity and business needs

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or a related field required, however equivalent work experience in a similar position may be substituted for educational requirements
• Industry relevant certifications are highly desired, but not required

Experience

• 7+ years systems engineering/systems administration experience
• 3+ years working with cloud-based technologies
• Prior experience in an Agile (Scrum/Kanban) environment
• Prior experience with Version Control Systems (Git and GitHub Enterprise)

Technical Skills

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• AWS and GCP Cloud Infrastructure (EC2, VPC, Route53, ELB/ALB, Terraform, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB or similar tools)
• Operations (CloudWatch Logs, New Relic, Elasticsearch or ELK stack, Splunk Enterprise or similar tools)
• Continuous Integration and Deployment (Git, Jenkins, Docker or similar tools)

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