Sr. System Engineer, Burlington, Massachusetts

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Sr. Systems Engineer – Nokia DX


Nokia is seeking a talented Sr. Systems Engineer to join our Nokia DX team in Burlington, MA. This role will be responsible for designing, deploying and supporting the end-to-end infrastructure architecture with a focus on high availability, capacity planning and fully resilient across multiple data centers.

The successful candidate must have a proven track record of deploying and supporting consumer internet infrastructure technologies of scale. A major part of this role will be working very closely with key stakeholders in ensuring the technologies adhere to 99.9% or higher uptime

Key Responsibilities

• Work as part of a service specific engineering team to design, deploy and support 24x7x365 operations

• Translating conceptual design to physical layout

• Meticulous attention to detail with an appreciation for the relationship between system reliability and company success

• Take new releases from inception to deployment, functioning as both a technical and project lead

• Work with R&D Team to build a set of Performance benchmarks, and test each new release of Data Core applications against these benchmarks.

• Utilize SDLC and application deployment best practices to design and implement a strategy for ensuring proactive application deployment

• Develop scripts/tools to ensure a streamlined/automated application deployment

• Develop and utilize performance and capacity management KPI's for proactive management of large distributed infrastructure environment.

• Use backup and recovery best practices to ensure critical systems are protected from data loss.

• Plan and implement structured validation and test processes to provide evidence that new or changed Services will support the requirements of customers.

• Provide assurance that Releases are 'fit for use' (meets required specifications) and 'fit for purpose' (delivers required performance)

• Translates the Service design (including functional & non-functional requirements) into testing requirements and takes responsibility for testing activities

• Presents or makes recommendations on technical issues

• Consolidates system data to formulate reports for business managers

• Provides training to user community on systems support

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a Systems Administrator or Senior Systems Engineer in a Red Hat Linux, CentOS environment running a LAMP stack

• Strong automation and scripting skills e.g. Perl & Python

• Monitoring Tools: Nagios, Graphite, Cacti

• Deployment Tools: Git, Puppet

• Working experience with a service operational background supporting high availability 24x7x365 environments preferably in internet or technology industry

• Understand server virtualization technology such as VMware and kvm

• Desirable, not must-have: Database Admin : Oracle, MySQL