Senior Systems Engineer

at  City Of Hope

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we’re changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS SHOULD INCLUDE:

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent experience defined as an amount equal to Minimum Experience in addition to the Minimum Experience.
• 5-8 years
• A minimum of one Certification must be obtained within 18 months:
• Required Certification
• MCSA ; MCSM ; MCM ; RHCSA ; RHCE ; IBM CSA ; Solaris 11 ; CCA ; CCAA ; MCSE ; MCSM ; NCDA

• Implement, design and maintain information systems infrastructure and related enterprise technologies
• Oversee and troubleshoot operating systems and applications using OS-based, resource kit, and third-party tools
• Support a multi-server web farm running web based applications
• Utilize enterprise tools to manage, monitor and secure large enterprise data center environments
• Analyze failures to minimize outages and interruptions
• Monitor database and network performance; conduct testing to ensure optimal performing
• Experience working with Enterprise Virtualization Technologies, including the design, implementation, and overall architecture of VMware
• Maintain, improve, research, recommend and implement policies and procedures relating to network operations and infrastructure
• Oversee planning, coordination and support of complex and critical business processes and systems
• Oversee server and network infrastructure maintenance provisioning as needed
• Draft policies, prepare training manuals and conduct training sessions related to network and database operations
• Coordinate with network operations personnel and other business units on large-scale project management initiatives
• Proven experience performing server systems design, implementation and administration
• Must be able to analyze system kernel and able to provide root cause analysis for complex problems
• Defines, designs and architects systems communications and solutions
• Must have wide-ranging experience, uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Responsible for handling the most complex systems and resolving the most complex problems
• Architects and Implements HA and DR strategy for virtual and physical systems
• May act as technical project leader or provide work leadership to lower level employees
• Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations.
• Progression to this level is typically restricted on the bases of business requirement
• Proven experience with server class hardware from major OEM Vendors (Dell, IBM, HP, Oracle etc.)
• Proven experience working with 32/64-bit based hardware
• Monitors data traffic and controls system resources and performance to ensure high quality of application service
• Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends solutions/best practices
• Actively participates or may lead in analyzing data and developing recommendations and action plans
• Leads and provides technical leadership to projects
• Solves complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify solutions
• Ability to implement solutions utilizing Enterprise technologies
• Ability to effectively multi-task and successfully manage multiple projects.
• Demonstrate strong organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills in order to evaluate situations make recommendations and take prompt, effective corrective action.
• Participate in on-call rotation support for customer impacting issues that occur on evenings and weekends.
• Must have excellent written and communication skills
• Other duties as assigned and as technology needs evolv