Senior Systems Engineer - SENIO012488-3563

Circana - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Senior

Chicago, IL

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Systems Engineer at Circana is responsible for providing technical and thought leadership in the development of infrastructure solutions for various client and internal technology projects. This role involves designing, documenting, and developing integrated solutions across on-prem data centers and cloud environments, while also guiding other architects and improving operational efficiency through automation and scripting. The position requires a deep understanding of technology applications and the ability to communicate strategies effectively to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop complete infrastructure solutions for client and internal technology projects, including Compute, Storage, Networking, Security, Visualization, Middleware, Database, Modeling, and the entire Data stream.
• Ensure business and technical requirements are accurately understood and documented.
• Ensure designed solutions meet those requirements and are documented properly for flawless implementation, obtaining stakeholders' approval and concurrence on the objectives and impact of options chosen and trade-offs made.
• Engage with relevant teams to develop cost estimates for solutions and evaluate options.
• Guide other architects and technology ops teams' implementation in cloud and data center environments.
• Develop and guide other architects in developing scripts, tools and procedures for orchestration, automation and efficiency improvement.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of all relevant components of infrastructure, industry trends, vendor offerings and cost; and their potential application in company's products, services and solutions.
• Champion training and development of relevant skills and knowledge across technology, operations and business teams.
• Develop Architectural Standards and technology roadmap; keeping them current and compliant with the help of the Architecture Council.
• Actively engage team, other functional colleagues and business stakeholders to ensure timely and accurate delivery of projects, delegating and managing tasks as needed.

Requirements

• Expertise and experience designing, configuring, and deploying complex IT infrastructure.
• Experience developing infrastructure solutions for Big Data, database, Hadoop, web applications, data reference architecture in scalable web-based data analytic platforms.
• On-prem Data Center, public and private cloud implementation experience with highly available solutions across Windows/Linux servers, applications, and storage (NAS, SAN and HSM) including network and security requirements, encryption, and certificate authority services.
• Experience with new infrastructure design methods of application performance monitoring, debugging, and tuning.
• Expert level knowledge and experience in Linux Redhat/CentOS; clusters, Cloud platforms - Azure/AWS/GCP/Oracle, IBM Websphere App Servers/Mulesoft/Tomcat/JBoss, NAS and other storage, Scripting and automation tools and techniques.
• Strong working knowledge of SSL/VPN/Citrix/VDI, SSO, Networking, Palo Alto Firewall, F5 Load Balancer, Active Directory/LDAP, PostGreSQL, Monet databases, Hadoop.
• Strong leadership, collaboration, communication, and delegation skills.
• Ability to handle detail as well as envision big-picture ideas.
• Bachelor's degree required, advanced degree a plus.
• ITSM, ITIL, PM experience/knowledge a plus.