Senior Systems Engineer

The Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for effective design, implementation, operation, and maintenance and troubleshooting of the IT infrastructure. This includes server administration, virtualization, performance tuning, backup and restore. This individual participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure. This individual ensures that system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational values.
Location: Rehovot, Israel
 
Infrastructure Security
• Proactively evaluate security notifications issued by HW/SW vendors, configured security systems and CISA notifications and coordinate the appropriate mitigation tasks.
• Collaborate with the Enterprise Security team to mitigate vulnerabilities identified via scanning platforms searching for known vulnerabilities not secured via patches or updates.
• Troubleshoot and resolve missing patches and updates not applied by automated patching systems.
• Participate in security incidents requiring immediate action to prevent loss, destruction or theft of confidential and intellectual property assets
 
Administration
• Manage global virtual server infrastructure residing on hyper-converged Nutanix platforms running VMWare & AHV.
• Administer Office365 email & collaboration platform including but not limited to Azure AD, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams & cloud storage.
• Management of global backup infrastructure ensuring reliable, accountable and secure backups.
• Maintain & optimize disaster recovery implementations including validating protected systems, validating documentation and periodic testing (live & simulated) in collaboration with business stakeholders
 
Support
• Analyze, diagnose and determine root cause of issues, test, communicate, and either resolve or escalate for resolution appropriately
• Ensure timely notification of maintenance activities and impacts on system availability.
• Establish and perform maintenance programs following company and vendor standards.
• Leverage SolarWinds monitoring platform to monitoring and mitigate alerts identified to ensure the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems, and key processes, reviewing system and application logs when necessary to identify root causes.
• Anticipate computing hardware, communication, and networking problems and implement preventive measures.
• Install, configure, and maintain servers and other business systems.
• Upgrade and configure system software that supports IT infrastructure applications or Asset Management applications per project or operational needs.
 
 
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor’s Degree, technical certifications and/or related experience.
• Minimum 5-7 years in an engineering & operations environment managing large infrastructure implementations including: Microsoft Active Directory, Office365 Email & Collaboration Suite, Virtualized Infrastructure (on-prem & cloud), Backup technologies, Microsoft Certificate Services
• Knowledge & experience in CICD methodologies
• Advancing knowledge of virtualization technologies (VMWare preferred, AHV desirable)
• Advanced technological skills, analytical skills, and trouble-shooting abilities.
• Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical personnel.
• Ability to install, configure, and maintain physical & virtual servers, networks, and related hardware and software.
• Advanced understanding of interoperability of computer and/or network security systems and applications.
• Fluent in English (high-level communication abilities required)
 
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
• Advancing knowledge of backup methodologies and management.  (Veeam preferred)
• Experience with hyper-converged technologies & concepts (Nutanix preferred)
• Experience with Public Cloud administration and support (MS Azure and AWS preferred)
• Working knowledge of Linux administration and support (RedHat & CentOS preferred)
• Working knowledge of CICD methodologies and tools (Octopus / Team City preferred)