Position Title: Systems Engineer

Department: Information Technology

Reports To: Chief Technology Officer

FLSA Classification: Exempt

Application Deadline: Open Until Filled

Position Summary:

The Systems Engineer (Official Title: Network and Systems Engineer) serves as the primary support person for infrastructure needs and reports directly to the CTO. Provides technical support to the Seminary’s two campuses by focusing on design, implementation and maintenance of solutions to the Seminary’s servers, infrastructure, network (LAN, WAN, MPLS, Internet) and application service needs.  Candidate does not need to know network engineering upon hire, but will be expected to learn this area.

Essential Functions:

• Provide primary line of support for all business critical Seminary servers and systems
• Research, design and implement solutions that optimize server provisioning, configuration management, performance
• Build, optimize and maintain Linux and Windows servers both physical and virtual (VMWare)
• Install, configure and optimize performance of all server based software
• Install, configure and optimize performance of database servers (Postgres, MySQL, Informix)
• Perform and verify centralized backups of Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows servers
• Maintain security of internal & external networks
• Implement and maintain information security standards as set forth by Seminary
• Perform regular periodic security and performance testing on Seminary systems
• Make recommendations to enhance maintainability, security and recoverability of Seminary systems
• Design and implement disaster recovery/business continuity solutions
• System documentation to include system reviews and recommendations
• Communication with customers as required: keeping them informed of incident progress, notifying them of impending changes or agreed outages
• Design, develop and implement systems monitoring and alerting solution
• Assist in establishing and implementing configuration management program and policies

Other Responsibilities:

- Improve customer service, perception, and satisfaction

- Document internal processes and procedures related to duties and responsibilities

- Author internal documentation, such as environment diagrams, installation/configuration documents and release notes

- Review IT publications and online materials to remain up-to-date with current and future technologies emerging in the industry

- Troubleshoot and debug environment and infrastructure problems found in the production and non-production environments

- Provide Local and Wide Area Network support

- Monitor software used to send alerts when network problems occur

- Review server logs for anomalies or errors

- Analyze server resource usage to measure efficiency and determine upgrade needs

- Maintain internal and external DNS and DHCP services (Windows DNS and Bind)

-  On call for all Seminary issues related to Information Technology

Financial Responsibility/Authority:

- Contribute to “New Equipment Budget” planning consisting of approximately $250,000.

Education/Certification/Training/Experience Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

- 3-5 years experience in similar field or Computer Science or similar technical degree

- Ability to identify, analyze and troubleshoot problems required.

- Knowledge of VMWare for server virtualization required.

- Knowledge of iSCSI storage area networks required (Dell EqualLogic).

- Knowledge of Ubuntu GNU/Linux Server and Windows Server operating systems required.

- Comfortable with open source software and communities required.
- Knowledge of git, SVN, and Chef a plus.

- Ability to use programming languages such as perl, php and python desired.

- Be able to maintain confidentiality, due to access to highly sensitive data.

- Strong desire to learn and keep up with changes in technology

- Strong back for heavy lifting up to 50 pounds.

- May require occasional travel to our Orlando campus (Once or twice per year)

- Knowledge of Cisco IOS and TCP/IP network layer a plus.