Computer Systems Engineer Job Description
Computer systems engineer
provides direction and guidance to lesser-experienced systems administration staff to assist them in their role and understanding of complex server operating systems administration to include UNIX, LINUX, and Windows.
Computer Systems Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Work collaboratively and proactively with the clinical team to understand the program and business processes
Elicit business requirements and translate to functional and technical requirements
Perform a variety of research, analysis tasks, and documentation as identified
Lead quality improvement initiatives as deemed necessary by the data presented
May be called upon to assist in technical or business presentations
Prepare charts, graphs, or flow charts to go along with documentation as needed
Work with R&A-EE software development teams, stakeholders in other Product Development In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) software development organizations, to identify weaknesses or gaps in the current processes or tool offerings
Manage the R&A-EE relationship with the IT Innovation Lab
Maintain a thorough understanding of the basics behind the Internet and its workings (Domain Name System [DNS], Security, Internet Protocol [IP] Routing, Hypertext Transfer Protocol [HTTP], Virtual Private Network [VPN], Vulnerability Monitoring
Configure and set up firewalls, VPN concentrators, and security appliances for access to vital business applications
Computer Systems Engineer Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Computer Systems Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CISCO, MCSA, IAT, LPIC, MCTS, CISSP, III, NAA, EASA, FAA
Education for Computer Systems Engineer
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Employers hiring for the computer systems engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and University Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Education, Computer Engineering, Science, Technical, Electrical Engineering, Computer, Software Engineering, Information Technology
Skills for Computer Systems Engineer
Desired skills for computer systems engineer include:
Systems administration
Systems programming skills
Windows Server
Desktop OS internals
Unix
Websphere
Mainframe domains
C4ISR systems and networks
DoD information assurance
Encryption equipment
Desired experience for computer systems engineer includes:
Specialize in IP video systems and transport and storage solutions
Design, sets up, and configure complex switching environments
Add programs, software, and configure hardware devices
Design, sets up, and configure complex wireless networking that support open or secured access and support voice and video applications
Maintain a thorough understanding of Local Area Networking (LAN)
Assist in the design of multi-server environments including IP address schemes, DNS, Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS), Ether-Channel (Bonding)
Computer Systems Engineer Examples
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Computer Systems Engineer Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a computer systems engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for computer systems engineer
- Install and maintain data retrieval systems as emergency backup
- Respond to inquiries from staff, administrators, service providers, and site personnel to provide technical assistance and support
- Train field representatives on new hardware and software
- Troubleshoot malfunctions of network hardware and software applications, telephones, and security systems to resolve operational issues and restore services
- Lead computer system validation for local and global sites including automated lab equipment software, data tracking and trending software, quality systems software and associated business system interfaces
- Determine computer system validation strategy for system qualification in alignment with company systems and collaborate/lead in decision-making and make recommendations regarding best options
- Communicate proactively with stakeholders and management regarding progress, issues and plans for resolution and to ensure the project team and/or network is fully informed of updates and improvements
- Develop computer system validation related content
- Monitor/support on-going computer compliance and perform periodic system reviews ensuring that the systems maintain their validated status
- Be a key member of a workforce that will assist with solution development and perform the implementation
Qualifications for computer systems engineer
- Certifications in Cisco and Microsoft applications a plus
- Position of Public Trust is also required
- Excellent written and verbal communications, including technical writing
- Minimum 4 or more years of experience with CA Single Sign-On (SSO), user directories, and web access management technologies
- At least 3 years of experience with CA Directory as a policy store, session store, and key store
- CA Single Sign-On R12.52 experience is a plus
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of computer systems engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for computer systems engineer
- Contribute to the growth of your organization
- Collaborate with business stakeholders and suppliers to develop and maintain validated computer systems for regulatory compliance (GxP and SOX)
- Proactively identify future needs related to GxP systems and work with system owners in groups such as Regulatory, Drug Safety, Clinical Operations, QA, and Biostatistics to develop the project scope and timelines
- Partner closely with Quality to develop and implement an assessment tool for evaluating 21 CFR Part 11 applicability and compliance for new and existing computerized systems
- Establish and maintain a Validation Master Plan for computerized systems
- Establish and maintain compliance policies and procedures for ensuring that computerized systems comply with all regulatory requirements throughout each system’s life cycle
- Establish a testing strategy, develop test specifications validation protocols, and scripts and manage test execution, review and documentation for applicable systems
- Establish necessary training, including compliance training, for all users of computerized systems and ensure appropriate training records are maintained
- Establish and implement a periodic review process for computerized systems to verify ongoing compliance with regulatory requirements
- Collaborate with IT and Finance business units to maintain SOX compliance for in-scope financial systems
Qualifications for computer systems engineer
- Extensive experience working with cloud environment, such as AWS cloud, and be able to hands on to configure networks, VMs, security settings
- Ability to work with a wide variety of computer hardware, software, operating systems, peripherals
- Large scale distributed control systems and their application to complex facilities
- Bachelor's degree and minimum of 10 years' experience network management and/or video evidence management
- Will troubleshoot issues with computational equipment configuration and interfaces
- Will configure and troubleshoot networks of deliverable equipment
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Our company is looking to fill the role of computer systems engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for computer systems engineer
- Bachelor’s degree and six years of related experience
- Maintain Spack and NERSC-supplied software on systems after Spack deployment, , upgrade software to new versions, troubleshoot issues
- Collaborate with NERSC consulting staff with development of Spack formulas to be deployed on NERSC systems
- Collaborate with NERSC consulting staff on the deployment of Spack on NERSC systems
- Participate in the maintenance of windows
- Coordinate with vendors to resolve hardware, system software and application license issues
- Coordinate cluster outages and improvements with SC Operations staff, IT and customers
- Help maintaining and enhancing network and cluster performance and health metric collection, monitoring, and analysis to proactively avoid future problems, fix current issues
- Make sure that appropriate security measures are built into the network, they meet the performance needs and that they are maintained in future modifications to the network
- Support user backups/restores for all managed systems
Qualifications for computer systems engineer
- Master's Degree or equivalent experience in an engineering discipline
- 5 plus years supporting DIS networking
- ClearCase, ClearQuest experience a plus
- HLA experience a plus
- Bachelor’s degree and four years of related experience
- Experience in scientific computing, with demonstrated ability to design and implement analysis software, preferably shared and distributed memory parallel software, in of the following programming languages and parallel libraries/languages/environments
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Computer Systems Engineer Job Description
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of computer systems engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for computer systems engineer
- Help developing and implementing technical network and security requirements
- Help planning the direction of the SC network to meet application requirements and to help budgeting, testing, and planning equipment upgrades
- Identify and diagnose network congestion, data loss/corruption, and cluster malfunctions
- Assist in capacity and capability planning activities
- Document system administration procedures for routing and complex tasks
- Write and maintain relevant support documentation
- Prepare and deliver relevant user training
- Consult and collaborate with ESnet users, ESnet site coordinators, and peer Research and Education (R&E), and Regional Optical Networks (RON) architecture, engineering and operations teams
- Configure, troubleshoot and provide analysis of network protocols (including IPv4 and v6, BGP, OSPF, ISIS) and advanced IP network services (including MPLS, RSVP, VRF,) are required for this position
- Architects network infrastructure and peering solutions
Qualifications for computer systems engineer
- Experience in benchmarking, code instrumentation, and performance analysis or parallel applications with emphasis on emerging architectures
- Innovative Thinking – Ability to seek, develop and deliver new ideas
- Embraces Change – Comfortable with change, both technological and process
- Understanding and familiarity with FDA & European regulatory requirements, guidelines, and recommendations for validation expectations
- Thorough knowledge of all aspects of computer system hardware and software design and development, laboratory and test procedures and modern system design methodologies
- Must possess at least 10 years of experience in simulation or related industry
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Computer Systems Engineer Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of computer systems engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for computer systems engineer
- Solve problems relating to mission critical services and create automation to prevent problem recurrence with the goal of automating response to all routine service conditions
- Influence and create new standards and methods for managing large-scale distributed systems
- Engage in capability planning and demand forecasting of services and service levels
- Conduct periodic on call duties as necessary to support a 24x7 workflow
- Work closely with various group to manage scheduled maintenances to perform tasks like upgrades, shutting down batch queues, managing diagnostic and notification software or generally managing a center wide outage
- Explore and evaluate new technologies and solutions to push our capabilities forward, getting ahead of our users’ needs, convincing staff incentivized to transform, innovate and continually improve
- This position supports a 24x7 operation
- Develop, modify, and implement new or existing software programs
- Analyze systems requirements, develop specifications and requirements, and validate data for accuracy
- Work with users to test and debug applications and assure software quality and functionality
Qualifications for computer systems engineer
- Proficient in C, C++, and C#
- Knowledge of 1553 and ARINC protocols preferred
- Experience in GxP regulations and Good Automated Manufacturing Practices (GAMP) principles with an emphasis in 21 CFR Part 11, 210, 211, 58 and 820 compliance
- Experience in generating, reviewing, and executing validation and change control documents, authoring SOPs, Protocols (IQ, OQ, PQ) of QC lab systems, IT systems, and Process Control Systems
- Able to work in a fast paced and dynamic organization, have the ability to prioritize and manage multiple priorities
- BS engineering or computer sciences and 3-5 years related experience