Senior System Engineer at Aurora

Job Description

Responsibilities: Our client is seeking a Senior System Engineer in Aurora, Colorado (CO).Job Description:Our client currently has an opening for a Senior System Engineer, responsible for managing the technical lifecycle of the infrastructure stack in strategic emerging technology projects such as the Enterprise Health Information Exchange (eHIE) across Delivery and Production Support phases.Responsibilities of the Senior System Engineer:

• Migrate environments cross data centers
• Consolidate servers with minimum impact to applications
• Conduct Disaster Recovery planning, testing and verification of backups and data replication
• Implement capacity planning for components across the infrastructure stack
• Assist in the development and management of operational dashboards
• Facilitate application deployment
• Document infrastructure design and components
• Prototype new solution components
• Interact with the users / Program Management office, when needed
• Provide on-call support for level II and III
• Take ownership of escalated issues and tracks them to closure
• Provide hands-on Technical consultation on a project/ release team; responsible for the technical success of the project
• Work closely with the solution architects to implement the design and ensure operational readiness
• Work with the Architecture and Strategy teams within to research new technology and development approaches and create best practices around them

Job Requirements

Qualifications:This position requires a results-oriented self-starter who can effectively thrive in a dynamic, fast-changing environment.The following basic qualifications and skills are required:

• Bachelors degree in engineering or related field along with 4 additional years of work experience
• 7 overall years experience developing and supporting large applications using various tools and technologies

Strong hands-on experience in:

• Middleware Technology Architecture, Design, Development and Best Practices
• Web Application Security and Single-Sign-On technologies, SSL/TLS, Certificates Management, and LDAP
• Server security, which covers access management, and file integrity
• Unix / Linux administration, including scripting
• Virtual infrastructure powered by VMWare
• Network components: Load Balancer, Global Traffic Manager, VPN, firewall
• Monitoring related technologies: SNMP, JAMPI, ICMP, HTTP health check
• Storage solutions: SAN, NFS, Tivoli Storage Manager
• Database: Oracle RAC, JDBC, and development tools
• Highly adaptive, quick learner, efficient in multitasking and goal oriented
• Ability to work effectively under aggressive deadlines and in challenging settings
• Excellent problem-solving, strategic and systems analysis and complex decision making skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to work in a team and contribute independently
• Hands-on experience with Open source development tools
• Working knowledge of HL7, and health information exchange standards
• IT/OO design/development/architecture with Java/J2EE, SOAP/Web Services/WS-I
• Community software skills: CentOS, Nagios, Glassfish
• Strong oral and written communication and documentation, collaboration and presentation skills

Country: USA, State: Colorado, City: Aurora, Company: Kforce Technology.