Lead System Engineer Job in San Francisco, California US

Lead System Engineer

Term : contract / contract to hire Location : downtown San Francisco, CA (close to BART, MUNI and Ferry System) Target Start Date : 3/26/2012 Industry : Retail/Ecommerce Notes : Candidates will be required to interview here in San Francisco. Candidates should be prepared to submit to background check prior to hire. Employee benefits are available to contracted candidates Lead Systems Engineer/Architect Are you a Linux guru looking for a position that is 90% project based? Are you looking for a role that will allow you to design and implement solutions that will be integral in driving business growth? If so please apply to this position. General Summary: This position is for a lead technical role in the deploying business applications by designing, automating and deploying applications from bare metal to running application container on deployed infrastructure. Systems engineers should have a strong background in configuration management enabling standard configurations for systems, network, and storage components. This is a hands-on role working collaboratively with development and operations to enable quick builds in parallel project driven Agile development environment. Deep focus and breathe of open source knowledge is required. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Participates in a team responsible for the design, implementation, and automate deployments of systems, network, and storage hardware and software. Expected to deliver innovation through automation to enable standard deployable units of infrastructure through multiple environments into production Point of contact for projects responsible to identify, design and deliver project infrastructure needs Partners with Project Managers, Technical Architects, Technical Managers, DBAs, Developers, QA, Operations to ensure infrastructure deliverables has been deployed, validated and operational guidelines and documentation has been handed over. Willing to assume any role within infrastructure or in the assigned project to drive delivery of the project within the standards set in infrastructure Influence others through presentations to the architecture group to drive initiatives and technical project designs Maintains a high degree of professionalism and mentorship as cross-training, knowledge sharing, and presentations are required Can organize, assemble and lead teams from multiple IT groups, and in some instances, may supervise daily work activities of assigned team(s) Focus on security best practices to ensure currency of our systems providing solutions and assistance in security and compliance activities. Required Qualifications: "Stack ranked in order of importance" 5-7+ years of Unix/Linux experience Experience in managing system configurations with tools like Puppet, Chef or Cfengine Strong knowledge of Cisco IOS, Firewalls, load balancers Strong knowledge Java / Tomcat and Apache Solid experience In-depth Ruby, Ant expertise Solid experience with storage networks and NAS/SAN hardware Experience with VMware, KVM, XEN Experience with AIX VIO LPAR a plus Experience with open source monitoring tool chains such as Nagios, Cacti, MRTG, SNMP, collected, Familiarity with some or all of the following: Apache, tomcat, mysql, memcached, Oracle and database clustering, etc. Excellent team player, including the ability to work cross functionally in a fast paced environment Demonstrated initiative, flexibility and ability to concurrently manage multiple deadline-driven tasks and projects; self-starter Experience working in an agile development environment If you may be interested in this position or have any questions, please email or call me directly. We can offer full benefits to include health care, PTO and training. We have many other open positions as well so please submit a resume if you have interest in working with us. Thanks, Michael Foote 415.343.6037 mfoote(at)teksystems.com