Senior Systems Engineer

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Teach For America
New York, NY, United States
Full-time

The Senior Systems Engineer (New York, NY) will be the technical lead for our various IT services that we manage in our Datacenters, National office and Teach For America’s Regional offices all over continental United States. Infrastructure services includes server, SAN storage, Redhat Linux, Cisco network (voice and data), EMC backup, VMWare, IT Security, Disaster Recovery, and datacenter. The candidate will manage a team of Linux/Network Administrators and offshore NOC. This is an excellent opportunity for candidates who have hands-on experience 

Areas of Responsibility: 
  • Provide technical leadership for various infrastructure technologies
  • Manage team of network, Unix engineers, day to day operations, and strategic project implementation
  • Manage 24x7 proactive monitoring, notifications, and escalations support for all infrastructure technologies
  • Build, maintain, and provide support all infrastructure services ensuring high levels of availability and customer service
  • Plan and perform technology life cycle thru implementation, refresh, patch management, upgrades, administration and management of all infrastructure technologies under Network, server, storage, backup, virtualization, Cloud as services, and IT security
  • Manage team of Linux/Network Administrators and offshore NOC
  • Follow and manage defined ITSM processes and workflow defined for incident, change, and problem management
  • Continuous improvement in service availability, reliability, and quality thru standardization, simplification, and integration
  • Learn and contribute in piloting, designing, and implementation of Cloud services for Infrastructure and network technologies
  • Work with various IT sub-teams such as Java development, DevOps, Cloud/Windows services, and Database engineering
Educational Background: 
Bachelor’s degree preferred from an accredited university/college BS degree in Computer Science or related field and about 10+ years of operational experience
Skills/Experience: 

Prior Experience

  • 10+ years of overall IT experience with 5-8 years of IT operations management experience
  • Prior hands on experience managing technologies such as RedHat, SAN, Backup, Cisco network technologies for routing/switching, IT security, and data center

Skills

  • Operational experience as a RedHat Linux, blade server, VMware, EMC storage, EMC backup, and Cisco network technologies
  • Strong communication skills are required alongside demonstrated ability to partner with internal team members as well as with our vendors.
  • Excellent troubleshooting and demonstrated critical thinking skills
  • Excellent interpersonal relationship skills
  • Accuracy and attention to detail
  • Experience or aspirations to cloud as services

Work Demands

  • Some weekend and evening work required for troubleshooting and maintenances
  • Work is performed in Teach For America’s New York City office, Datacenter or Regional offices.
How to Apply: 

https://teachforamerica.secure.force.com/ts2__JobDetails?jobId=a0x0V0000...

Job Function: 
Technology / Data Management

Organization Info

Teach For America

Overview
Headquarters: 
New York, NY, United States
Website: 
teachforamerica.org
Annual Budget : 
$100-500M
Founded: 
1993
About Us
Areas of Focus: 
Education
Mission: 

Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates, professionals, or graduate students who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in expanding educational opportunity. Teach For America's mission is to enlist, develop, and mobilize as many as possible of our nation's most promising future leaders to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity and excellence. In the 2016-2017 school year, 6,900 first- and second-year Teach For America corps members are teaching in 53 regions across the United States. Since 1990, Teach For America corps members have reached more than 10 million students. Teach For America's more than 40,000 alumni are providing critical leadership -- as teachers, school and district leaders; elected officials and policy advisers; and founders and leaders of education and social reform initiatives -- to ensure all children have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Jan 7 2018
Active Until: 
Feb 7 2018
Hiring Organization: 
Teach For America
industry: 
Nonprofit