Senior Systems Engineer

2 weeks ago


Christchurch, New Zealand Datacom Full time

Our Purpose
Here at Datacom, we connect people and technology to solve challenges, create opportunities and discover new possibilities for the communities we live in whilst embodying a culture of trust and respect for employees and customers alike.

The Nuts and Bolts

Why You Want to Join Us - Our Team and Culture, Benefits, Career Growth, and Flexibility
We are local at heart, yet world-class in capability. We’ve managed to maintain our local family feel whilst expanding globally across Australia, ASIA, US and the UK. In the regions we continue to grow and actively support local workforces and their families, and we are focused on being a great place to work to facilitate an environment that encourages our employees to strive to imagine what’s possible, challenge the status quo and put forward fresh, diverse thinking. For our employees, this results in such fantastic perks as:

- a competitive salary package.
- impressive benefits such as discounted or even free healthcare and life insurance from leading providers and considerable discounts from local retailers.
- a supportive and flexible working environment.
- a strong focus and dedication for employee development, assisting from an both an advisory and financial perspective, helping people to attain the certifications needed for genuine career growth.
- Having a large scale, globally respected IT organisation on your resume, and great opportunities to progress within.

What you’ll do
As Senior Systems Engineer - Linux, you will be responsible for, but not limited to the following:

- Use Ansible to perform day to day activities
- Use & modify existing Ansible playbooks to perform Application rollouts in customer environments
- Meet client SLAs for system availability, uptime and reliability
- Proactively manage and monitor the system environment for continuing business support
- Perform role responsibilities and duties during business hours, with occasional after-hours and on-call as required
- Perform regular Project Services work and work at a Design/Architecture level.

What you’ll bring

You will bring at least two years’ experience in a complex, corporate, multi-server IT environment. You will have strong knowledge of RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 & 8 or similar flavour of Linux such as Ubuntu, Centos, etc. Along with extensive experience configuring and deploying servers, developing scripts to automate server builds and supporting systems infrastructure (systems, storage, networks, virtualisation platforms etc.). You will be comfortable using Ansible in day-to-day operations tasks. Plus, you will have experience with sever security initiatives and have supported Virtual Server Environments.
You will possess exceptional customer, problem-solving and technical documentation skills, and be a team-player. Other skills you possess or technologies that you will have worked with include:
**Configuration Management**:

- git, GitLab CI/CD
- gitlab runners

**Monitoring**:

- Check MK
- Prometheus
- Science Logic
- PRTG
- Grafana

**Automation / Scripting**:

- Ansible
- Python
- Bash
- PowerShell

**Software Packaging / Deployment**:

- Red Hat Satellite
- Docker / Buildah / Podman container development

**Requirements**:



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