Senior Systems Engineer

شركة: City of Philadelphia
نوع الوظيفة: Full-time

Job Description
The PPD Platform Engineering team is responsible for the cross-platform technologies that provide technical delivery of applications and services used in day-to-day operations. The Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for areas of infrastructure, which includes data storage, business continuity management, Active Directory, server virtualization, disaster recovery strategy, and other related infrastructure needs. In addition, this role is expected to act as primary subject matter expert on specified IT platforms. This is a technical position which encompasses management of backup policy, Active Directory needs, storage architecture administration, server engineering, infrastructure planning, design, and implementation as well as network security. This role is critical within the Philadelphia Police Department's IT infrastructure, thus sound technical knowledge in these subject areas as well as consistent reliability is required. Professional skills along with the ability to work within a team are also necessary. The applicant will also be part of on-call rotation once the probation period as has been successfully completed.
Essential Functions
Providing primary engineering support and administration of storage and server infrastructures
Performing active security and vulnerability monitoring of systems on platforms such as Crowdstrike, ActiveEye, Rapid7, CyberSence, and MS-ISAC
Administrating enterprise storage (SAN and NAS), including performance tuning, activity monitoring, capacity planning, and firmware management
Acting lead on on-prem virtualization and cloud infrastructures
Acting lead on tier 3 systems incident assessment and problem management
Managing backup infrastructure including schedules, retentions, and quality assurance
Planning and implementing software and firmware upgrades
Being engaged in applications deployment projects and migration activities
Participating in server monitoring, including performance and security assessments
Active lead on Active Directory implementation, administration, and maintenance activities
Provide technical feedback as SME on infrastructure projects, efforts, and activities
Participate in peer mentoring exorcises for team development
Address infrastructure needs as circumstances arise
Competencies, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Strong background in VMWare technologies on administration and management including:
VMware vCenter and vSphere
Site Recovery Manager
ARIA Operations (Formerly vRealize Operations) 
Aria Operations for Networks (Formerly vRealize Network Insights)
NSX
Strong foundation with networking technologies including DNS, DHCP, SNMP, RADIUS, NTP, VLAN, routing/switching protocols, load balancing, and firewalls
Strong background in data protection operations including backup, recovery, data restoration, analysis, archiving, and policy scheduling
Managing and configuration of desktop and server systems including: 
Windows 10 and 11
Windows Server 2016 and above
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Windows Admin Center and InTune
Ansible
Identity and Authentication Management including:
Active Directory Domain Services
AzureAD (AKA Entra ID)
Group Policy
Forest-level Replication and Global Catalogue
Domain user, group, and permissions administration
Microsoft 365 integration and provisioning
Performing file management task including quotas, network shares, and data report monitoring
Testing systems for vulnerabilities in hardware and software
Knowledge of scripting technologies for automation
VB Script, Powershell, BASH, DOS, Python, or similar
Design, configuration, and implementation of hyperconverged infrastructures such as DellEMC VXrail 
Configuring and deploying SQL server environments including Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB
Strong knowledge with industry standard security protocols such as SSL, TLS, IPSec, HTTPS, PGP, Kerberos, DNSSEC, SSH, etc..

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