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Senior Systems Engineer
Description
The Role:
The Senior Systems Engineer reports to the Worldwide Manager of Platform Services and is responsible for the design, implementation and optimization of Logitech’s internal and external datacenter infrastructure and services hosting in public clouds. This team member will apply expert knowledge and skills to deliver a stable, scalable, flexible, and secure infrastructure for Logitech’s internal and external user community. You will be part of the Platform Services team, which is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing IT infrastructure across the company and facilitates collaboration and process improvements through the development of internal and externally facing services.
Your Contribution:
Be Yourself. Be Open. Stay Hungry and Humble. Collaborate. Challenge. Decide and just Do. These are the behaviors you’ll need for success at Logitech. In this role you will:
Design, maintain, and optimize existing and new systems across Logitech’s global on-premise/datacenter and cloud networks.
Manage security updates, upgrades and version releases to ensure service stability and security. This includes working with vendors such as Oracle and Microsoft.
Maintain, deploy and migrate services onto public clouds such as AWS, GCP and Azure.
Identify, recommend and implement hardware upgrades and coordinate installation activities.
Manage and configure the monitoring of systems and applications.
Analyze performance bottlenecks on systems and applications and provide solutions to team, management, and internal customers. Develop and effectively communicate plans for remediation and improvement
Implement and maintain security, backup and disaster recovery strategies for OS and databases
Key Qualifications:
For consideration, you must bring the following minimum skills and behaviors to our team:
Demonstrated expertise managing Linux- and Windows-based systems and services at scale, including experience hardening high-value systems.
Comfortable with several flavors of Linux, including RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, Oracle Linux.
Experience coordinating multi-system and computing environments in remote computing facilities.
Experience managing systems via an automated configuration management system such as Chef, Puppet or AWS SSM.
Expert level SAN and multipath software and OS configuration experience.
Demonstrated expertise working effectively in a shared software development environment, including version control, bug tracking, release management, and code review (Git/Github/Gitlab).
Experience (5+ years) with automating processes and deployments using scripting (bash, python, perl, PowerShell, etc.)
Experience in setting up Amazon environments, including Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling.
Multi-regional VMWare experience, ESX re/deployments, upgrades.
Extensive experience in using AWS tools and technologies such as such as Amazon CloudWatch, tagging, and Trusted Advisor; monitor the health of EC2 environment, AWS services and customized applications.
Experience in design and implementation for AWS/GCP infrastructure with abstraction frameworks such as ElasticBeanstalk, AppEngine, CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.
Experience (5+ years) Microsoft Enterprise administration, including Active Directory administration, management and upgrades, license audits, access control for Microsoft resources
Experience with enterprise system applications such as Commvault and Infoblox
Proven ability to lead as well as work independently on large/complex system deployment projects in a team environment.
Proven ability to develop appropriate plans to meet computing needs.
Advanced knowledge of security trends and best practices.
Self-motivated and able to work effectively in a team environment. Ability to set and accomplish goals, meet deadlines, and deliver high quality infrastructure with limited management oversight.
In addition, preferable skills and behaviors include:
Cybersecurity expertise, including creating and adhering to IT Security Plans, web hosting issues, incident response, and RCA.
Oracle RAC experience
Comfortable deploying complex systems with IaC (Terraform, AWS CDK, etc.). Able to import legacy systems and configurations to IaC.
Experience managing multiple petabytes of data.
Database Administration, installation, upgrade and maintenance (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL, Hadoop, etc.).
Experience with monitoring tools such as Nagios/Icinga and DataDog .
Scripting experience such as shell and php.
Experience creating and managing native OS packages.
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills; the demonstrated ability to approach complex problems logically and systematically. Makes use of independent research and self-directed learning to solve operational issues and implementation obstacles.
Strong written and verbal skills.
Education:
B.S./B.A. with at least 8 years experience that demonstrate technical, communication and development skills or additional experience in lieu of degree.
Logitech is the sweet spot for people who are passionate about products, making a mark, and having fun doing it. As a company, we’re small and flexible enough for every person to take initiative and make things happen. But we’re big enough in our portfolio, and reach, for those actions to have a global impact. That’s a pretty sweet spot to be in and we’re always striving to keep it that way.
“All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.”
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