Senior Systems Engineer

The Basics:

The Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for provisioning, configuration, operation, and maintenance of on-premises and cloud-based systems and related infrastructure. You will participate in technical research and development to drive innovation within the infrastructure and surrounding processes. Additionally, this role is responsible for ensuring technology and related processes adhere to ISO27001 and other relevant industry frameworks. 
 
What you’ll do:

• Embrace Tanium’s mission and core values. 
• Act as member of IT systems engineering team with a focus on systems management and project delivery 
• Perform infrastructure deployment, management, planning, scaling, scheduling, etc. 
• Drive and enhance automation wherever possible in the name of efficiency, scalability, and consistency 
• Work with a variety of key business groups to architect and implement technology and solutions 
• Embrace Jira and sprints as a guiding principle for organizing, prioritizing, and executing work 
• Be accountable for ensuring all technology is documented, deployed and configured securely and in alignment with best practices  

We’re looking for someone with:

• Education
  • BS in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience 

• Experience 
  • 4+ years as a Systems Administrator, Operations Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Engineer or similar required 
  • 5+ years relevant experience preferred 
  • Strong background with Windows, Linux, and VMware systems deployment and administration. 
  • Experience with Cloud Computing & Networking Environments.  Azure (preferred), AWS and GCP. 
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code toolsets – e.g. Terraform, Vault. 
  • Experience with Configuration Management toolsets - Ansible (Preferred). 
  • Experience with Bash, Python and PowerShell scripting. 
  • Experience with TCP/IP networking and troubleshooting. 
  • Experience with SAN storage arrays and troubleshooting.  
  • Familiarity with monitoring and management of enterprise systems running on physical and cloud infrastructure required 
  • Experience with backups, high availability and overall infrastructure resiliency for cloud and on-premise technology required 
  • Ability to estimate and manage cloud usage costs and identify and operationalize cost control mechanisms preferred 
  • Demonstrated ability to work with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, GRC, Product Engineering and other teams to drive architectural decisions for cloud and on-premises technologies 
  • Familiarity with CI tools such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions (preferred) 
  • Familiarity with Docker and other container technologies (Kubernetes, ECS) 

• Other 
  • Person of high ethics and integrity 
  • Demonstrates strong initiative and motivation 
  • Ability to partner with virtual team members. 
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills 
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment 
  • Azure Certifications a plus, but not required 
  • AWS Certifications a plus, but not required 

About Tanium 

Tanium, the industry’s only provider of converged endpoint management (XEM), leads the paradigm shift in legacy approaches to managing complex security and technology environments. Only Tanium protects every team, endpoint, and workflow from cyber threats by integrating IT, Operations, Security, and Risk into a single platform that delivers comprehensive visibility across devices, a unified set of controls, and a common taxonomy for a single shared purpose: to protect critical information and infrastructure at scale. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for six consecutive years and ranks on Fortune’s list of the Best Large Workplaces in Technology. In fact, more than half of the Fortune 100 and the U.S. armed forces trust Tanium to protect people; defend data; secure systems; and see and control every endpoint, team, and workflow everywhere. That’s the power of certainty. Visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

On a mission. Together. 

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.   

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