Linux Systems Engineer

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Position Details

Systems Engineer Summary: Reporting to the IS Manager of Systems Support, this position is responsible for executing technical direction provided by the Caché Principal Engineer for the systems and applications in support of highly available computer environments running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system.

Job Description

Systems Management: Act as secondary support for RHEL principal engineers. Assist with the planning and implementation of server hardware and operating systems for physical and virtual hosts.

Performance Monitoring: Develop and maintain performance measurement utilities, which support analysis of real time workload, response time, and availability, as well as historic data for trend analysis and capacity management.

Capacity Planning: Monitor server resources to enable need projections and acquisition planning.

Caché Systems Support: work with IS Clinical Development (CCC), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), and any planned future Caché-based teams for systems support and integration with their application requirements, such as fail-over, secure access, file transfers between disparate systems, web services, and scripting; keep their development and test environments current with latest relevant patches for bug and security issues; be able to effectively execute recovery procedures within the scope of its troubleshooting team during a systems crisis.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

This position requires technical knowledge and skills related to: Linux operating systems, system utilities, capacity management, and enabling technologies that promote high availability such as clustering, mirroring, network load-balancing, and virtualization; development, support, monitoring and performance management; and can work effectively within the scope defined by a project team.

Frequent interaction and collaboration is required among its principals and personnel from the systems support and application development teams.