Linux Systems Engineer Entry

Minimum Pay Rate: $78,686.40 

Maximum Pay Rate: $104,187.20 

Civil Service Status: Civil Service 

Apply by Date: 11/20/2024 

Posting Type: Open 

 

SMUD has been serving the Sacramento region for over 70 years and provides over 1.5 million customers with reliable electricity at affordable rates. SMUD's IT Infrastructure Platform Services department is hiring for a Linux Systems Engineer for its Compute Platform Engineering team. The team is responsible for architecting, deploying and managing compute services for enterprise applications.

 

As member of the Compute Platform Engineering team, the Linux Systems Engineer position plays a key role and will help deliver innovative compute solutions to our customers and business partners. This specialist will cover administrative duties such as architecting, provisioning, monitoring, upgrading, and capacity planning for the SMUD's enterprise Linux environment, server hardware, and server virtualization technology. The incumbent will also expend to cover additional cloud technologies such as public cloud administration and cloud native platform administration.

 

We are posting this opportunity for the Linux Systems Engineer Entry along with our Linux Systems Engineer Journey level position. The department will be filling one position at either of those levels. If you are interested in the Linux Systems Engineer Journey position you will need to apply to that position separately.

 

Official SMUD classification: Enterprise Technology Infrastructure Specialist Entry

Purpose

To assist with technical system support and maintenance for SMUD's corporate-level distributed computing infrastructure in the areas of system design, development, installation, operation, maintenance, and support to ensure SMUD’s use of technology supports its current and future business practices. 

Nature and Scope

There are five (5) levels in this job classification series that have similar job content but with progressively more challenging degrees and levels of skill, responsibility, knowledge, experience and qualification requirements:

 

Flex Classifications (that permit progression from lower-level classes to higher level classes without examination based upon assessment of an individual’s experience and performance) within the series: 

• Entry: Incumbent acquires knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the tasks associated within the series but are not yet demonstrating these at the Journey level.
• Intermediate: Incumbent continues to acquire the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the tasks associated within the series but are not yet demonstrating these at the Journey level.
• Journey: Incumbent is demonstrating the required skills and knowledge to independently perform the full scope of the job.

 

Non-Flex Classifications (that promote from lower-level classes to higher level classes and require an examination, such as an interview, based upon individual experience and performance) within the series: 

• Senior: Advanced journey level resource who is responsible for advanced assignments, as dictated by the work needing to be performed; may serve in a lead capacity.
• Principal: Subject matter expert/lead level and is responsible for leading the most advanced work, as dictated by the work needing to be performed.

 

Entry/Intermediate to Journey: Incumbents at the entry (or intermediate) level are required to successfully “progress” to the journey level within 60 months of appointment to remain within the job series.

 

Seniors and Principals must be hired through a promotional process and do not automatically progress from lower levels in the series.
 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Serves in a support role on multi-departmental networking computer projects with planning, designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining a network infrastructure including backup and recovery, physical and logical network design, network topology, network architecture, security architecture, and corporate server architecture; assisting in identifying and defining corporate level network computing projects; defining functional system requirements and specifications; developing technical standards and procedures; developing the system design; developing system and user acceptance tests; installing and integrating systems; performing post-implementation reviews; and providing technical consultation and solutions for technical issues.
• Supports assessing the need for new hardware and software systems, upgrades and modifications by evaluating the effectiveness of the current systems; evaluating networking operating system so