Senior Systems Engineer (Mid-range)

Opis stanowiska pracy

We are an international staffing solutions provider, established in 1946, operating in 36 countries globally. For one of our clients from financial sector we are currently looking for:

Senior Systems Engineer (Mid-range)

Ref. no.: WfTsMsEP
Location: Poznan


Job description:

This Sr. Systems Engineer will be reporting to the IT Manager within Platform Engineering. This senior member of the Platform Engineering team will be required to directly influence the future direction of the client’s global server technology.
A core requirement of this candidate will be to have a passion to innovate and drive for enterprise level technology solutions, while displaying personal accountability for results and an uncompromising dedication to quality.
This candidate will need the ability to gain buy-in from management on courses of action that reflect an understanding of business objectives and the cost implications.
This Sr. Systems Engineer while respecting diverse contributions from other systems engineers will be expected to provide this cross functional team guidance on a course action that might not be readily understood by the more junior members of the team.
Our client’s plans for 2010 involve the consolidation and virtualization of the server infrastructure and introduce new tools and technology to create greater agility, efficiencies and effectiveness in OS deployments, OS patching, Server and Storage monitoring and configuration management. This candidate will need to fully assimilate with these 2010 plans and provide immediate implementation recommendations for the new server infrastructure making sure these recommendations also interface with the ongoing storage strategy.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Lead efforts to plan, establish and continuously improve the server refresh process while taking advantage of new OS and server hardware technology to allow for datacenter consolidation, power management and load balance applications between data centers.
• Drive innovations in server technology by staying current with new vendor offerings.
• Understand the client’s Technology Adoption Process and use it to lead POC’s efforts for the assessment of new server technologies.
• Factor in the disaster recovery requirements into server refresh recommendation to insure all SLA’s are honored.
• As part of the refresh process, interface with various lines of business and IT departments (application, systems management, engineering, architecture, technical staff, etc.) in support of business requirements and service-level objectives.
• Create infrastructure solutions for server refresh efforts and for other business requests outside of the server refresh program.
• Ensure close alignment with all the client’s IT vendor partners
• Meet as required with application development teams to understand their application functions and lead the effort to provide a solution and execution plan for the Application Development and Global Operations teams to understand and take ownership for eventual execution.
• Creates documentation for solutions and develops runbooks for operational support staff as necessary