Systems Engineer V

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a global technology leader that is transforming the way people shop, consume content, and interact with digital services. With a strong presence across e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence, the company is known for its customer-centric approach, innovation-driven culture, and large-scale global impact. It continues to invest in building products and services that improve everyday life while supporting businesses, communities, and economies worldwide.

Position:

Systems Engineer V

Location: Austin, TX

Duration: 6 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

The successful engineer in this role will:

• Understand how commodity servers, operating systems and networks function, perform and scale.
• Possess superb troubleshooting, project management and problem analysis skills.
• Drive technical innovation and efficiency in infrastructure operations via automation.
• Design server monitoring and management solutions using automation and self-repair.
• Create processes that enhance operational workflow and provide positive customer impact.
• Dive deep to resolve problems at their root, looking for failure patterns amenable to long-term solutions via simplification and automation.
• Avoid re-inventing the wheel and prefer appropriately simple, repeatable solutions over more complex and failure prone ones.
• Recognize and adopt best practices in documentation, testing, security, operational support at scale, and efficient use of resources.
• Develop appropriate metrics to demonstrate performance at improving operational efficiency.

Core Requirements:

• In depth knowledge of & experience deploying and operating Linux or other UNIX variants in a datacenter environment.
• Relentless passion for frugality and out-of-the-box engineering.
• Strong system troubleshooting skills.
• Proficiency and experience in automation via Perl/Python programming and shell scripting.
• Good understanding of standard internet protocols (Ethernet, ARP, IP, ICMP, UDP, TCP, SSL, DNS, HTTP, etc.)
• Demonstrable grasp of security best practices in server configuration, tool development, and access controls.
• Experience in building SQL queries.

Highly Desirable Attributes:

• Knowledge of C, C++ or Java.
• Knowledge of VCS (git, mercurial, svn).
• Understanding of AWS technologies.
• Experience deploying or managing servers in large-scale, geographically diverse environments.
• Understanding & experience of managing and monitoring large scale disk sub-systems.
• Operational knowledge of common enterprise switching and routing platforms.

Top 3 Must Have Hard Skills:

• Partner management experience.
• Data Analysis experience.
• Implementation of tasks and validation experience from a QA perspective.

Nice to haves:

• Overlapping experience for Go lives from previous companies; ex. Home Depot, Starbucks.
• Preferred certifications include UKG Pro configuration certification and vendor-specific credentials for integration tools like Boomi.

Leadership Principles:

• Ownership.
• Dive deep.
• Deliver results.

Years of Experience:

The ideal candidate needs 7+ years experience with workforce management systems, particularly UKG Pro configuration and implementation experience.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

Skills:

ARP (Address Resolution Protocol), Access Control, Alliance/Partner Management, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analysis Skills, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, Best Practices, Business Support, C Programming Language, C++ Programming Language, Cloud Computing, Community Support, DNS (Domain Name System), Data Analysis, Diversity, Documentation, Ethernet, Git, HTTP (HyperText Transport Protocol), ICMP, IP (Internet Protocol), Identify Issues, Internet Protocols, Java, Leadership, Linux Operating System, Mercurial, Network Operations Center, Network Routing, Network Switching, Operating Systems, Operational Improvement, Operational Strategy, Operational Support, Operations Processes, Performance Management, Performance Metrics, Perl Programming Language, Problem Solving Skills, Process Development, Product Development, Project/Program Management, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Quality Assurance, Quality Assurance Methodology, SQL (Structured Query Language), SSL-TLS (Secure Socket Layer - Transport Layer Security), Streaming Technology, Subversion, Systems Administration/Management, Systems Engineering, TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), Technical Leadership, UDP (User Datagram Protocol), Unix Operating Systems, Unix Shell Programming, Workforce Management, eCommerce.

About the Company:

TekWissen LLC

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.

Company Size:

Company Size: 100 to 499 employees

Industry:

Industry: Computer/IT Services

Founded:

Founded: 2009

Website:

Website: http://www.tekwissen.com/