Senior IT Systems Engineer

Intelsat, posted 15 days ago in Information Technology.

Description

Position Summary

The Senior IT Systems Engineer  primarily will be responsible for the data center Infrastructure end to end and also  will be responsible to perform technical evaluations, integrate COTS & custom applications, define solutions, develop processes, perform system engineering functions (trending, metrics, documentation, computing infrastructure), to support Intelsat Business-Facing Operations and all Enterprise Services for Intelsat Operations. Implement upon high availability and disaster recovery framework, architecture, and concepts. Provide Windows, Linux and HPUX systems administration support. Provide 24x7 on-call support on a rotating basis.

Critical Responsibilities

• Play a key role in supporting the data center infrastructure end to end for all applications. This involves playing a key role in the day to day data center operations, ensuring deploys to the production environment are handled promptly as per established guidelines, data backups and restores are adhered to, 24x7 operational systems are optimally performing and disaster recovery norms are fully established.
• Provide Windows, Linux and HPUX systems administration support.
• Provide 24x7 on-call support on a rotating basis.
• Design and perform trending analysis, and metrics definitions for improved operations.
• Evaluate highly complex systems, performance, and issues in order to provide recommendations for improvements. Produce appropriate specifications and support documentation.
• Define, implement, and audit IT infrastructure standards and guidelines for Intelsat computing environments.

Important Responsibilities

• Play a support role in the infrastructure design of in-house and 3rd party development of Intelsat operational systems.
• Specify and/or select appropriate hardware, COTS products and toolsets, in conjunction with system architects and departmental system engineers.
• Monitor technical contracts with vendors and software providers, to ensure contractual requirements are met.
• Interface with operational staffs, support staffs, integration & test staffs, development staffs, project staffs, other operational area system engineers, and system architects

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• Indepth system administration skills in Windows and in either Linux or HPUX is a must.
• Exposure and proven storage administration skills in either EMC or NetApp is desired.
• Exposure and proven administration skills in NetBackup is
• sired.Familiarity with Data Center Operations (administration,
• ckups and restores, deploys) is desired.
• Ability to go on call and handle 24x7 IT Operations is desired.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to communicate clearly.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in Windows
• 3 years Linux and/or HPUX operating environments.
• Windows and Unix experience should include high availability and load
• lancing solution (MC/ServiceGuard, Veritas Clustering, Microsoft Load
• lancing)
• 4 years of experience in system engineering disciplines.
• 4 years of experience in Promotion Model (CM, Imaging, Packaging, Distribution schemes).
• 4 years of experience in Directory Services and access methodologies ( ADS, LDAP).
• 3 years of experience in network technology, security, and protocols.
• 3 years of experience in various COTS (NetBackup, Argent, Nagios, exposure to SQL, Oracle etc.)
• 3 years of experience in various technologies (EMC/NetApp Storage, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, etc)

About Intelsat

Intelsat is the largest provider of fixed satellite services (FSS) worldwide and is the leading provider of these services to each of the media, network services and telecom and government customer sectors, enabling people and businesses everywhere constant access to information and entertainment. Intelsat offers customers a greater business potential by providing them access to unrivaled resources with ease of business and peace of mind. Our services are utilized by an extensive customer base, including some of the world’s leading media and communications companies, multinational corporations, Internet service providers and government/military organizations. Real-time, constant communication with people anywhere in the world is closer, by far.

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