Systems Engineer, Senior Job Description
Systems engineer, senior
provides systems engineering support through specific IT project management and system development life cycle (SDLC) processes.
Systems Engineer, Senior Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Documents systems related standards and procedures
Participate in establishing and gaining approval of the definition of a system or component under development (requirements, designs, interfaces, test procedures, ) that provides a common reference point for hardware and software developers
Applies systems engineering and systems integration practices to develop nominal and anomaly operational concepts
Participate in a 24/7 on-call support in a rotation
Represent the company at relevant external events
Configure, maintain, and administer servers, storage systems, and applications
Monitor systems health and performance and GPO design and administration
Improve the health of system assets
Evaluate production issues to determine corrective action(s) required
Proactively identify enhancements to improve performance, reliability, and resource consumption
Systems Engineer, Senior Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Systems Engineer, Senior
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: AWS, VCP, ITIL, MSCE, VCDX, VCAP, MCSE, SSL, II, IAT
Education for Systems Engineer, Senior
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the systems engineer, senior job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technical, Education, Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, Mathematics
Skills for Systems Engineer, Senior
Desired skills for systems engineer, senior include:
Maintenance
Systems engineering principles and processes
Operation
Integration
Processes
Sustainment
Risk management
Procedures
Systems development life cycle
DoD
Desired experience for systems engineer, senior includes:
MCITP preferred, CCNA desirable
Familiar Virtualization technologies, such as VMWare 5.X
Familiar with Microsoft SCCM Suite of products
Windows Server administration, managing a mixed Windows 200+ node network
6-8 years proven ability to administer and maintain a Windows 2008 and higher environment
5+ years managing and supporting network services for technology oriented companies
Systems Engineer, Senior Examples
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Systems Engineer, Senior Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a systems engineer, senior. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for systems engineer, senior
- Ensure standard work is being followed in the operation and maintenance of all systems under the role’s span of control
- Lead customer efforts to define mission protection CONOPS and procedures
- Assist the IT Systems Manager in developing standard work for all Service Desk procedures related to systems operations
- Highly specialized in phases of software systems development, systems integration, virtualization/consolidation, data engineering, network/system security, and/or network engineering
- Responsible for the overall installation, configuration, testing, and maintenance of all operating systems, application software and system management tools
- Technical lead for web-based 24/7 SaaS operation
- Provide technical oversight of contractor development activities
- Assist in program and acquisition planning encompassing evolving R&D activities, Campaigns, Roadmaps, and external elements
- Conduct outreach to multiple mission partners to coordinate protection approaches, participate in exercises, and brief program plans
- Shall investigate and resolve obsolescence issues
Qualifications for systems engineer, senior
- Understanding on server builds that consists both of physical and virtual servers
- Expertise in Active Directory, Clustering, DNS, and DHCP
- Knowledge of Linux environments – a MUST
- Scripting knowledge (Bash/Python)
- In-depth experience in trouble-shooting IT systems
- Windows 7 and higher, Office 2010 and higher, Office 365, Apple OSX 10.8 and higher, Active Directory Administration, GPO Administration
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Systems Engineer, Senior Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of systems engineer, senior. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for systems engineer, senior
- Assist in architecting solutions, documenting complex procedures and planning maintenance activities
- Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance duties for supported environments
- Work closely with the Infrastructure Operations team as part of 24x7 support team to establish on-call schedules and collaboratively plan and execute off-hour provisioning, maintenance and operations activities for the HI infrastructure
- Hand-over to delivery of global systems to external providers by creating repeatable processes and toolkits using custom scripts
- Technical design, implementation, and operations of infrastructure solutions across the Americas infrastructure footprint
- Provide Level 2 and 3 support for infrastructure operations and act as a mentor for junior staff
- Take part in Disaster Recovery design, implementation, and execution
- Implement systems improvements by assessing current situation
- Problem Analysis (identifying abnormalities, ) and resolution, monitoring and documenting
- Analysis of data to discover root cause of errors and escalate to Sensus R&D teams (only) where necessary
Qualifications for systems engineer, senior
- Ability to administer modern enterprise server and virtualization technologies, including Linux (primarily RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu), Windows Server 2008R2 and 2012, VMware ESX
- 2+ years responding to IT security matters in the Microsoft world
- Experience with other areas of general IT infrastructure (storage, networking, ) highly desirable
- Ability to function in a team environment work independently
- Knowledge of Storage Technologies to include SAN, NAS, iSCSI, Raid Levels, LUN
- 5+ years of experience in technical aspects of systems architecture or systems engineering, including security infrastructure, networks, and systems design
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Systems Engineer, Senior Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a systems engineer, senior. 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 systems engineer, senior
- Ensure the stable operation of our Windows server infrastructure including file and print services, GPOs, Terminal Services, Certificate Authorities, and licensing
- Assist in unifying global monitoring system
- Propose and create system design models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to systems engineers and development teams.Design and deploy new applications and enhancements to existing applications, software, and operating systems
- Design, document, and implement Operating Systems patches, code and firmware updates to systems infrastructure
- Proficiency in Operating System installation procedure
- Thorough understanding of server hardware and operating systems including high availability (HA) components
- Troubleshoot and resolve server related issues including hardware, software, and network
- Full knowledge to install and configure high availability/cluster servers supporting business critical functions
- Understanding of installing and configuring backup solutions
- Understanding of multiple scripting languages to develop solutions for automation and reporting
Qualifications for systems engineer, senior
- BA or BS degree in EE, CS, or Information Systems or 8+ years of experience with providing system engineering expertise can be substituted for a Bachelor’s degree
- Experience with PEOs and PMs, including interfacing with weapon systems, C4ISR systems, aviation systems, radios and radio communications, satellites and tactical messaging, and symbology
- Fluent in Microsoft Office Products to include MS Word
- Able to perform extensive troubleshooting, performance tuning, capacity planning, and trending analysis
- Knowledge and experience with SAR technologies
- Outstanding communications skills - listening, verbal/non-verbal and written communications
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Systems Engineer, Senior Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of systems engineer, senior. 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 systems engineer, senior
- Create and maintain standard operating procedures related to job duties and system configuration
- Keep documentation on all maintained equipment and processes up to date
- Deploy, configure, maintain and update infrastructure systems and hardware
- Document issues, research, troubleshooting and corrections in ticketing system
- Foster growth of junior team members by reviewing work and providing feedback
- Generate and monitor key performance indicator reports
- Participate in an on call rotation with team members to respond to critical network events
- Recommend upgrades and configuration changes to infrastructure
- Research and develop infrastructure solutions based on requirements for business projects
- Troubleshoot and resolve computer systems issues in a networked environment
Qualifications for systems engineer, senior
- Experience or related training in Project management
- Recognized as a domain expert in Ground Architecture
- Current domain and program experience in O&M
- Ordnance system development including expertise in power sources, firing circuits, control circuit monitoring, circuit initiating devices, and receptor ordnance subsystems
- Experience working on a launch range
- Flight termination system ordnance
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Systems Engineer, Senior Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a systems engineer, senior. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for systems engineer, senior
- Develop and support internal applications, tools and processes to maintain or enhance infrastructure performance
- Direct and coordinate installation and integration of new DES deliverables, working direct with the customer at customer site
- Author new validation processes for SW verification testing
- Develops and documents infrastructure standards and architecture
- Designs and implements architecture to support scalable and highly available systems
- Identifies and find ways to eliminate recurring work and shorten wait time through automation
- Works in an agile development environment, collaborating with application development and architecture teams
- Leading cross-functional teams that assess technical risk of programs and/or provide technical expertise to programs
- Assisting programs in planning and conducting systems engineering/technical activities, including guiding programs in technical/systems engineering planning, requirements definition and analyses, cost/performance trade analysis, feasibility analysis, regulatory compliance analysis support, technology conceptual designs, and other special studies and analyses
- Assisting programs in developing systems engineering/technical artifacts such as, systems engineering plans, requirements documents, test and evaluation plans
Qualifications for systems engineer, senior
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or other related discipline and 12-15 years’ experience or Master's and 10 years
- 20+ years of related experience in systems engineering support to national security program acquisitions or operations
- Experience with electrical / RF engineering, optical science, or orbital analysis
- Experience in SEP development
- Familiar with OSD-approved outline for SEP
- Must be able to work with no or minimal supervision