Iron Systems is an innovative, customer-focused provider of custom-built computing infrastructure platforms such as network servers, storage, OEM/ODM appliances & embedded systems. For more than 15 years, customer have trusted us for our innovative problem solving combined with holistic design, engineering, manufacturing, logistic and global support services.

Job Title: Systems Engineer III
Location: US - CA - Fremont

Job Description: Summary:

• The main function of a systems engineer is to apply the principles of computer science and mathematical analysis to the design, development, testing, and evaluation of the software and systems that make computers work.
• A typical systems engineer analyzes user needs, and then designs, tests, and develops software to meet those needs.

Job Responsibilities:

• Modify existing databases and database management systems or direct programmers and analysts to make changes.
• Write and code logical and physical database descriptions and specify identifiers of database to management system or direct others in coding descriptions.
• Work as part of a project team to coordinate database development and determine project scope and limitations.
• Review project requests describing database user needs to estimate time and cost required to accomplish project.

Skills:

• Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage one’s time.
• Basic mentoring skills necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback.
• Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle: from business/systems analysis, through requirements gathering and functional specification authoring, to development, testing and delivery.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues and make system changes as needed to resolve issue.
• Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, electronic equipment and computer hardware and software.
• Knowledge of computer development software across multiple platforms.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or relevant field required.

Must Have Skills:

• Basic knowledge of Linux server
• Advanced Windows Server engineering, configuration management, troubleshooting advanced problems and Windows client participating in AD or Azure environments Experience authoring and troubleshooting Microsoft Active Directory Group Policy Experience administering Microsoft Active Directory Follow run-books (with awareness for execution )

Good to have skills:

• Azure experience, managing applications and conditional access policy SSO familiarity, application federation and SAML/OIDC terminology
• Advanced Microsoft Active Directory engineering experience in a large mixed environment
• Knowledge of authentication protocols: NTLM, Kerberos, oAuth, SAML Extensive experience deploying, scaling, and managing on-prem applications
• Experience with deploying and authoring configuration management: chef preferred; SCCM, ansible, puppet or similar Advanced troubleshooting and engineering with Linux Server
• Advanced Powershell scripting and automation

Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition:

• Exposure to scale and reliability is high, high-paced, a breadth of experience across Meta - high bar to reach, will likely help with rest of career.

Typical Day in the Role:

• Business hour on-call rotation for CWs - looking for high-critical alerts that need to be resolved, then backlog, then project that needs to be worked through, end of the week report to show value back to the company.