Systems Engineer

Title: Systems Engineer

Type: Contract- 6 months

Location: Atlanta, GA 30339

Looking for a systems engineer to join a fast paced dynamic environment to build the next generation weather data platform. The systems engineer will be responsible for designing and developing solutions for infrastructure setup, configuration, automation and caching, primarily on the cloud. This requires an excellent understanding of sound application/infrastructure design, networking, application deployment and management, server provisioning and maintenance, and platform automation.

The systems engineer will work closely with data systems engineers/architects, performance/platform engineers and application developers/architects. The systems engineer will be responsible for the full deployment, infrastructure automation, and designing and developing tools and applications for code building, deployment and release management.

CLIENT DETAILS:

Headquartered in Cobb County, GA since 1982, our client is the world's leading cross-platform media company and a pioneer in televised, radio, and Internet based media.  They have been named one of The Top 10 Places to Work in Cable by Cable World Magazine for two consecutive years. This company has consistently rated in the Top Five for News, Entertainment and Information. As part of one of the fastest growing cable networks today, this organization is sure to meet your desire for an exciting career.

REQUIREMENTS:

- Strong Linux experience (RedHat 6.x/CentOS 5.x & 6.x)
- Experience with configuration and management of CDN's (Akamai or level3)
- Solid understanding of Amazon web services (or other cloud providers) and prior experience in designing and building infrastructure components in Amazon (or other cloud providers)
- Good working knowledge with Scripting languages such as, Perl, Python or PHP
- Experience with API management gateways and portals. 
- Experience with Memcached or varnish or Squid.
- Experience with building and deploying applications and release management
- Apache and Tomcat experience
- Experience with Jenkins
- Experience with messaging technologies (RabbitMQ)
- Experience with NoSQL (Redis, Riak, MongoDB, Hadoop) would be a plus
- Knowledge of creating RPMs for open source

QUALIFICATIONS

KNOWLEDGE

- BS in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
- 5-10 years experience with infrastructure management, linux administration, and networking services
- 2+ years experience in working in AWS or in other cloud providers.
- Experience in managing applications running hot-hot across multiple locations
- Experience in using puppet/chef to automate instance creation and configuration
- Good understanding of non-relational data stores such as MongoDB, Riak, Redis and MemCached
- 2+ years experience in high volume public-facing web site/API management environments.
- Experience with Jenkins (and/or other similar tools).

SKILLS

- Excellent problem solving, with the ability to distill a problem down to one or two key hypotheses and quickly able to validate based on live and experimental data.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills with the ability to relate with sensitivity to the unique needs and problems of a 24-hour operation with critical deadlines.
- Ability to work closely with customers in defining content requirements.
- Must be able to manage several active projects simultaneously.
- Can work with minimal supervision.
- Goal oriented, customer focused, self-starter attitude, not risk adverse
- Exceptional interpersonal teamwork skills.
- Possess positive and professional communication skills with all levels of stakeholders and management
- Dependable, organized, and highly motivated with ability to multi-task

For immediate consideration, please contact Bill Hendricks:

Synergis is a woman-owned company that serves a myriad of clients across nearly all industries, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. The outcomes of these relationships are demonstrated in a growing list of more than 300 clients and industry recognitions by Inc. magazine and the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

From its foundation in 1997, Synergis has been successfully recruiting and placing IT professionals in all areas of information technology.