Systems Engineer at Flare Emergency Response

Responsibilities

• Review software and hardware systems, data management, and operational processes to evaluate and design systems for accuracy, usability and efficiency in critical operations
• Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software, hardware, and system management tools
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
• Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with ops team and developers to implement needed softwares, software fixes, or processes
• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks
• Integrate software and hardware systems where needed to reduce human data entry or opportunities for human error
• Participate in the design of information and operational support systems
• Document system protocols and train team members on systems and processes
• Work with external or internal resources to deploy new software/hardware solutions like CRM integrations, data dashboards, or secure data management systems; liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
• Manage and monitor all installed software/hardware systems

Requirements

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Product design or leadership, or a related subject
• Proven experience and thorough understanding of all stages of system lifecycle: design, support, implementation
• Proven working experience working with growing companies to design/implement bespoke solutions to improve efficiency, security, or usability in operations
• Solid scripting skills (e.g., shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python)
• Solid networking knowledge (OSI network layers, TCP/IP)
• Proven working experience with systems/workflow analysis and systems design
• Proven working experience with automations, system integrations and implementation
• Experience with monitoring systems
• Must enjoy working with a variety people and projects
• Must enjoy researching the scope and details of a given problem, and taking on responsibilities within the wide range of challenges and initiatives involved in effective system design and deployment, uptake/user buy-in, maintenance and continuous improvement

Preferred experiences to make you stand out

• Proven working experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting UNIX/Linux based environments
• Solid experience in the administration and performance tuning of application stacks (e.g.,Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, Ruby, NGINX)
• Solid Cloud experience, preferably in AWS
• Experience with virtualization and containerization (e.g., VMware, Virtual Box)
• Experience with automation software (e.g., Puppet, cfengine, Chef)