System Engineer Jobs

Epitec

Job Title: System Engineer

Job Type: W2 Contract, On-Site

Location: Joliet, IL or Owings Mills, MD

Job Summary:

• This individual will be working in Joliet, IL or Owings Mills, MD once a week AND as needed.
• Epitec is seeking an IT System Engineer to provide hands-on support for delivery and maintenance of IT solutions of Unix/Linux Hosting and Cloud Technical Operations.
• This Engineer will provide IT teams and business personnel with technology solutions by weighing advantages of technology standards, market availability of products, and risks and benefits of technology to meet business/IT needs.
• On-call support will include some weekends and evening shifts, and will follow a 6-week rotation.
• This Engineer will maintain significant customer engagement, work planning, project management services provided to IT customers.
• Pay Rate: $74-80/hourly

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage support of VMware vSphere hypervisor to allow hosting of servers in a virtualized highly available environment.
• Manage RedHat 6, 7, 8, 9 servers from both a hardware and operating system standpoint.
• Assists in coordinating and implementing planned infrastructure changes for business and/or IT clients.
• Maintain server inventory information to ensure accuracy of configuration management DB.
• Ensures proper implementation of technology both within the production and the development environments.
• Support the production release management system for documenting, planning, and implementing IT changes.
• Assist in racking and stacking of servers in Exelon’s datacenters.
• Configure and maintain server processes, configurations, and backups.
• Maintain and monitor Linux and VMware platform health and performance.
• Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes.
• Plan, coordinate, communicate and implement security patching activities for Linux server platforms.
• Maintain and enhance engagement with business and IT partners to sustain service levels; visible and accessible to clients providing guidance for how to successfully request new devices as needed.
• Looks for ways to automate processes to allow more efficient use of resources.
• Finds ways over, around and through barriers to success. Self-starter; a results-oriented doer.
• Provide technical expertise and/or solution delivery support for maintaining performance and reliability of server solutions.
• Provide 24x7 support and participate in on call rotation for critical production systems.
• Build and maintains knowledge of new technologies or technology opportunities for on-prem and Cloud based services.
• Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours.
• Promotes and encourages Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree (Computer Science or related field) and 9 years of relevant experience (IT infrastructure support, application support, cloud computing, disaster/recovery).
• 24/7 on-call rotational duties, as needed.
• Demonstrated proficiency in at least one operational domain such as storage, compute, database, collaboration, application support, [cloud hosting and related technologies].
• Ability to lift up to 25lbs to rack servers with assistance and use of server lifts as needed.
• Zerto experience.
• Experience with Oracle Enterprise Linux, Solaris, Exadata hardware helpful.
• Ability to travel domestically.
• Experience administrating servers on-prem (physical and virtual) and in Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Certifications such as Azure Administrator, Oracle Cloud Administrator, VMware, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server preferred.
• Experience with scripting language such as Python, Shell, etc.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Understanding of change management principles associated with sustaining high availability of systems and preventing change related incidents due to human performance factors.
• Takes good directions from Team Leads and Manager in performing required work.
• Makes well-thought-out decisions on complex or ambiguous issues.
• Excellent communications skills - Able to effectively communicate highly technical information in non-technical terminology (written and verbal).
• Independence level: works under supervision of Team Leads and/or Manager.
• Demonstrated ability with knowledge in current versions of VMware hypervisor technology.
• Working level knowledge: Backups, RAID, SAN, and NAS storage

Benefits:

• Established and highly regarded reputation with Green Card processing.
• Medical, Dental, PTO, Holiday tailored to meet your needs. 401K/Match, $15,000 Life Insurance, Award-Winning Employee Care Program.

Why should you choose Epitec?

We started Epitec with a single focus, “Placing People First.” Knowing every good endeavor begins with listening and understanding, we’ve set about challenging every part of the employment process. Bringing the proper connections together for the perfect fit.

How is Epitec different?

Epitec gets to know our prospective employees, using these insights to locate the perfect placement for you. We are there, every step of the way. Providing a best-in-class compensation package combined with the opportunity to grow financially and personally through your work.

What is the result?

Epitec represents the world’s top companies and works to fill their open jobs with the world’s best talent. That’s led to Epitec servicing an impressive list of Fortune 100 companies. We've also won many awards, including one of Crain’s Detroit Business “Cool Places to Work,” and 101 Best & Brightest – local, national and elite winner. And that’s just the beginning, as we work to innovate the way the world thinks about employment.