Position: Senior Systems Engineer

General Summary:

The Systems Engineer is responsible for system design and implementation of a large-scale e-commerce infrastructure. He/She is responsible for 3rd level system support in a mission-critical, 24/7 environment. He/She is responsible for mentoring junior staff and providing technical leadership to large-scale projects. He/She drives technical meetings, makes operational and strategic decisions, influences our systems strategy, and executes on the tactical plan. He/She interacts with business and PM’s to design and implement new functionality.

Responsibilities:

The Systems Engineer is responsible for system design and implementation of a large-scale e-commerce infrastructure. He/She is responsible for 3rd level system support in a mission-critical, 24/7 environment. He/She is responsible for mentoring junior staff and providing technical leadership to large-scale projects. He/She drives technical meetings, makes operational and strategic decisions, influences our systems strategy, and executes on the tactical plan. He/She interacts with business and PM’s to design and implement new functionality.

Project work 80%

- Deploy and manage mission critical systems.
- Planning scalability/capacity architecture to support 2x business growth every year.
- Participate in Failure Point Analysis for subsystem and implement resulting projects.
- Make design recommendations to software and hardware projects and participate in technical reviews.
- Direct experience with managing multi site data center production environments.
- Demonstrate Technical Architectural Leadership, playing a vital role in the design, operation, implementation, and maintenance of Walmart.com’s web properties running in 24×7x52 environments.

Production Support - 20%

- Provide 24/7 on-call systems operational support on rotation basis.
- Identify and resolve more than 95% issues proactively with system monitoring tool
- When on-call, ensure the System has sufficient capacity.
- Effectively follow change management guidelines for all the changes made to the production and pre-production systems.
- Lead initiative to develop scripts and other programs for systems monitoring and maintenance.
- Lead projects and manage and mentor junior Systems Engineer
Qualifications

Experience & Desired Skills:

- B.S. in computer science(or similar) or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of system administration experience with Solaris/Linux.
- 2+ years of systems design/architecture experience.
- 5+ years of Unix systems experience in a 24×7 environment
- ECommerce active/active site build, design and failure point analysis experience.
- Sun hardware, high end server experience a plus
- Advanced Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) experience desirable; VERITAS Cluster Server (VCS); Sun Cluster or other High-availability service.
- SAN experience on 50+ TB of storage across multiple subsystems. Hitachi Data Systems is a plus.
- Ability to document project designs.
- History of progressively complex project management experience.

Functional Competencies:

- Ability to translate business requirements into efficient technology.
- Strong technical implementer and leader.
- Ability to lead projects and see business and technical components.
- Owns technical direction can dependably execute on underlying technology which affects single projects.
- Can interact with the business and represent the project view with standard management oversight.
- Interacts effectively with business and PM’s to design and implement new functionality.
- Strong drive, excellent work ethics and a strong commitment to the team and company’s success.
- Ability to articulate advanced technical topics (e.g. process scheduling, disk and file system I/O, kernel internals, TCP/IP communications at all levels).
- Ability to write project plans, lead cross functional project teams and lead problem-solving activities.
- Shell scripting (Bourne, Perl, Awk, Sed, etc.) prowess.
- Ability to work in high-pressured but highly structured, customer oriented environment.
- Ability to document sub-systems and project designs

Interpersonal Competencies:

- Ability to work on multiple projects and reprioritize as needed
- Ability to stay on project or hand-off schedule and manage own time accurately and effectively
- Proactively escalates issues to manager and provides recommended solutions
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Works well with business representatives and PM’s
- Ability to thrive in a team-oriented, fast-changing environment
- Effective multi-tasking
- Thrives in multi-discipline work teams
- Strong negotiation skills
- Works well with business representatives and PM’s
- Experience in making good decisions with limited information

Leadership Competencies:

- Demonstrates integrity, maturity and a constructive approach to challenges.
- Makes decisions, using good judgment, that are in line with strategy and understands how projects fit into overall development strategy and process.
- Strong drive, excellent work ethics and a strong commitment to the team and company’s success.
- Ability to multi-task (work on multiple deliverables at once)
- Demonstrates an attitude of joint accountability for all aspects of projects, whether or not directly assigned responsibilities. aspects of a project
- Demonstrates respect, responsiveness and professionalism toward others while providing superior service for customers
- Ability to assess competencies of technical team and make appropriate work assignments.
- Ability to lead architectural design teams and lead problem-solving activities.
- Facilitation and team-building skills at all levels. Ability to influence, train, mentor and leverage the skills of others, including Directors and above, to achieve objectives.

Contact information:

Warm regards,
Sim Dort
Sr Technical Recruiter
Ph no- 650.837.5173
Email- sdort AT walmart DOT com
www.linkedin.com/in/simdort