Senior Systems Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:Kforce has a client that is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer in Evanston, IL.Key Tasks: Delivery of resilient application stacks via "Infrastructure as Code" and other DevOps practices Monitoring and on-going support of critical, high revenue business applications Diagnosis and resolution of complex system and application issues Working with diverse technical and non-technical teams, including Development, QA, IT Operations, Customer Operations and Project Management teams Write and maintain systems/application documentation for technical and non-technical audiencesREQUIREMENTS: BSc Engineering/Computer Science or relevant experience Proven background working in a technical, IT related position Configuration Management tools - (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or equivalents) Professional experience of working within the public cloud - Azure, AWS or Google Cloud Platform Hands-on experience of Linux and Windows server including support and troubleshooting System and application monitoring - (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, etc.) Professional Experience with common source control tools - (e.g., Git, SVN) Cloud Architecture and system design to solve key business problems and facilitate team goals Strong and enthusiastic technologist, able to demonstrate a broad technical knowledge Excellent oral and written communication skills Ability to act as a point of expertise, advise others in the team on best practice and impart knowledge Maintain code assets using development versioning in code management platformDesirable Skills: Desirable - AWS/Azure Certifications Use of orchestration tools such as Terraform, Ansible or CloudFormation Experience migrating application from on-premises to public cloud Experience with Blue-Green deployment methodologies Continuous Integration/Delivery tools - (e.g., Gitlab or Jenkins). Experience working with containerised workloads such as Docker. Experience with Log Management tools (e.g., - Elastic Stack, Graylog or Splunk) Experience working with an enterprise RDBMS such as MySQL and/or Microsoft SQL Server Knowledge of change control and associated procedures Use of Secret Management services (e.g., - Hashicorp Vault) Experience with any high-level programming languageKforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.