Senior Systems Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Maxymiser is a leading global provider of online testing, personalisation and cross-channel optimisation solutions.  The company’s enterprise platform allows its clients to drive continuous improvements in their key online strategic goals and financial metrics.

Named as a leader by Forrester Research in its February 2013 Online Testing Wave, Maxymiser’s platform is used by hundreds of global companies including Alaska Airlines, Avis, Epson, Harry and David, HSBC, InterContinental Hotel Group, Sovereign Bank, Teleflora, Virgin Media, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts. Founded in 2006, Maxymiser has offices in New York, London, San Francisco and Dusseldorf, as well as a global network of marketing and technology partners.

Job Description

The role of the Senior Systems Engineer will be to manage key components of Maxymiser’s globally distributed platform infrastructure ensuring high availability/performance SLAs are met, to participate in design of the Maxymiser platform architecture including networking/system provisioning and software configuration. You will provide input/challenge platform software engineering solutions from deployment, system management and deployment automation perspective, automate platform component deployment/software configuration processes, regularly deploy new platform releases into production as well design and perform regular stress/load/performance testing of the platform, participate in providing 24x7x365 2nd level technical support capability for enterprise clients globally. You will also provide senior technical leadership by being conversant with current and emerging web based technologies and understanding the impact upon Maxymiser platform and how these developments can be exploited.

Responsibilities:

• Design and management of key platform components to support Maxymiser distributed product platform (Network and Systems)
• Deployment of platform components and application components
• Software configuration management implementation in line with Change Management policy
• System Change Management policy and enforcement through monitoring, auditing and reporting systems
• Maintain deployment architecture/system build documentation
• Participate in creation of the capacity plan and business continuity processes
• Management of key services provided through 3rd parties (Dynect, Akamai, etc)
• Maintain a secure platform and demonstrate using appropriate tools (Pen Testing, IDS, etc.)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in technical or analytical subject; 2:1 is highly advantageous
• Experience in design, operation and management of globally distributed platform supporting high throughput, low latency applications
• Experience in design, operation and management of distributed networking systems in a secure environment
• Experience in design, operation and management of virtualised platforms and cloud based systems
• Experience of managing BigData/understanding BigData challenges is highly desirable
• Direct experience of providing 24x7x365 support and services in a rapidly expanding business environment (This will be on a rota system, 1 week in 3 or 4)
• Intellectual capacity to understand most complex problems and explain them in simple terms to business users
• 5 + years’ experience of the following technology stacks:

Essential:
• Virtualization (VMWare)
• BigData: NoSQL (Cassandra/MongoDB/GenFire)/column-based stores: Vertica/Netezza, MS OLAP
• Microsoft  stack: Windows Server/IIS/MS SQL
 
Desirable:
• Networking and Firewalls (LAN/WAN design, BGP, TCP/IP, UDP protocols, Cisco/Checkpoint/Stonegate)
• SAN based storage (EMC, NetApp, HP)
• ETL: MS SSIS
• Linux stack: Centos, Nginx, WSO2
• System provisioning, configuration and monitoring(Spacewalk/Puppet/CfEngine, PXE, Nagios, OSSEC/TripWire, NTP, SVN/Git)
• Automation of system provisioning, configuration (OS/VMs/middleware/proprietary stack) and deployment processes

Additional Information

For more information, please visit www.maxymiser.com

All applicants should have a valid EU work permit to be considered. We would love to hear from you. Contact us at [email protected]