Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stanford University Libraries develops and maintains the digital presence of the libraries, including applications, storage, backup systems, and virtual machine infrastructure. The Senior Operations Engineer will design, implement, secure, and maintain complex operating systems and infrastructure, resolve major system emergencies, lead large-scale computing projects, mentor system administrators, and manage vendor relationships.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, install, and maintain operating systems, utilities, and applications software on computing systems
- Resolve system emergencies with significant impact on the integrity of user data and systems
- Design, configure, implement, and maintain system security strategies, policies, and procedures
- Establish software/hardware standards and systems policies and procedures
- Engage in long-term strategic planning with regard to systems development and integration
- Conceptualize and implement systems within broad technical or structural frameworks
- Perform capacity planning for system configuration, software services, network services, load distribution, and service interrelationships among computer systems
- Act as technical expert and mentor for local computer system administration
- Act as project leader on large-scale computing projects in which strong technical, directional, and personal leadership is necessary; assign and oversee the work of other system administrators as needed
- Manage vendor relationships and cost-effective hardware and software maintenance agreements with vendors
Skills
- Bachelor's degree and eight years of relevant experience, or a combination of education and relevant experience
- Experience with complex, multi-system platforms and vendors
- Experience coordinating multi-system and computing environments in independent computing facilities
- Experience developing/implementing a business continuation and disaster recovery plan
- Proven ability to develop appropriate plans to meet computing needs
- Advanced ability to program in multiple programming languages in multiple operating systems
- Proven ability to lead and work on large/complex system deployment projects in a team environment
- Advanced knowledge of security trends and best practices
- The successful candidate will have experience with Linux (Ubuntu/Debian preferred), infrastructure as code, virtualization, and cloud technologies
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