Senior System Engineer

<h2>Overview:</h2> <p><strong>Job Title: </strong>Senior Systems Engineer</p> <p><strong>Job Location:</strong> Stuttgart, Germany</p> <h2>Job Responsibilities:</h2> <p><strong>Requisition Type: Pipeline</strong></p> <p> </p> <p>Trace Systems is seeking an innovative and highly driven Senior Systems Engineering to join our growing team in Stuttgart, Germany. This role will be a part of a dynamic, multi-disciplined team, creating systems infrastructure design and standardizing our services/applications for our Combatant Commands on their coalition networks. </p> <p> </p> <p>The Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for supporting planning, designing, and implementing communication services, systems, networks, &amp; applications while continuously improving server/application services for the customer. The Senior Systems Engineer supports multiple virtualization technologies in the enterprise and works in Networking, Storage, Configuration Management, Cloud Architecture, and the Project Management team. </p> <p> </p> <p>The Senior Systems Engineer is accountable for significantly contributing to overall technical architecture, design, stability, resiliency, and general health related to the data center infrastructure including virtualized server, application, and the virtualized desktop infrastructure systems and other C2 applications; is a top level technical contributor with advanced knowledge and experience in the area of server, application, and desktop virtualization, administration, and related hardware/software. </p> <p> </p> <p>The Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for solving problems of diverse scope where analysis of situations requires evaluation and judgment; is responsible for evaluating current systems; assisting in designing solutions for our government client, and at times, can provide informal supervision, leadership and training to less experienced technicians. The responsibilities of this position also include participation in the planning and management of technical implementations related to data center migrations.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Primary Job Responsibilities Include: </strong></p> <ul> <li>Perform site surveys, gather requirements, and develop designs</li> <li>Develop to be system architecture</li> <li>Document cutover plans to move services operating on one network with a topology to another network with a different topology</li> <li>Develop and document system software migration and configuration cutover plans</li> <li>Document and maintain Requirements Traceability Matrix &amp; System Requirements Matrix</li> <li>Responsible for administering Microsoft Windows servers operating in a virtual environment including packaging, deployment scripting and testing, shell scripting, and tier 3 technical issue resolution</li> <li>Document pre-install test check out plans</li> <li>Brief and communicate plans to team and customer</li> <li>Designing, recommending, and deploying emerging data center technologies</li> <li>Supports the deployment of virtual Microsoft Windows desktops through VMware Horizon technology</li> <li>Architecting system logs and analyzation through tools like Splunk and VMware vRealize Log Insight</li> <li>Performing routine audits of systems and software</li> <li>Work with Network Team to plan, install, configure and test new hardware and software for enterprise solutions</li> <li>Answering technical queries from other IT support teams (DBAs, Networking, Architecture)</li> <li>Responsibility for documenting the configuration of the current and future infrastructures</li> <li>Contributes to design of enterprise server systems including but not limited to technical architecture, stability, and platforms</li> <li>The assessment and optimization of data center systems, through systems monitoring, statistics, daily health checks. Responsible for reporting KPIs and trends all facets of the environment. Coordinates service calls and schedules appointments with software vendor and consultants to ensure satisfactory resolutions of problems and malfunctions.</li> <li>Maintains accurate and comprehensive documentation diagrams of the enterprise infrastructure and communications flow and routing to include PPS with origin and destination data flows for firewall configurations</li> <li>Research, evaluate, and recommend new tools and technologies to meet operational requirements</li> <li>Identify trends and abnormalities and proactively take steps to prevent performance impacts to  environment and business function</li> <li>Perform pro-active support functions and reporting to maintain the integrity of the enterprise environment and business function</li> <li>Support and contribute in developing and maintaining 3 year strategic plan, to mitigate risks, address organizational deficiencies, and facilitate new requirements, technologies and growth</li> <li>Analyze, determine, and document technical requirements</li> <li>Communicate accurate and useful status reports to managem