Sr. Systems Engineer I
Company: Exelon
Location: Joliet
Posted on: October 29, 2024
Job Description:
Who We Are: We're powering a cleaner, brighter future. Exelon is
leading the energy transformation, and we're calling all problem
solvers, innovators, community builders and change makers. Work
with us to deliver solutions that make our diverse cities and
communities stronger, healthier and more resilient. We're powered
by purpose-driven people like you who believe in being inclusive
and creative, and value safety, innovation, integrity and community
service. We are a Fortune 200 company, 19,000 colleagues strong
serving more than 10 million customers at six energy companies --
Atlantic City Electric (ACE), Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE),
Commonwealth Edison (ComEd), Delmarva Power & Light (DPL), PECO
Energy Company (PECO), and Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco).
In our relentless pursuit of excellence, we elevate diverse voices,
fresh perspectives and bold thinking. And since we know
transforming the future of energy is hard work, we provide
competitive compensation, incentives, excellent benefits and the
opportunity to build a rewarding career. Are you in? Primary
Purpose: PRIMARY PURPOSE OF POSITION -- The IT Sr Systems Engineer
I position serves as a senior technical role within the IT
department. It requires demonstrated experience of information
technology, problem-solving skills, and the ability to work
effectively both independently, as a mentor and as part of a team.
Candidate will possess the self-motivation, experience, and skills
to serve by providing technical insights driving the design,
implementation, and optimization of complex systems under the
guidance of a Principal Engineer or Manager. Collaborates with IT
architecture to define strategy and work with various teams to
implement high quality systems to meet business requirements.
Delivers and supports IT infrastructure, product and platform
solutions. Designs and delivers complex IT system initiatives, to
include cloud, non-cloud and hybrid-cloud systems. Influences other
IT teams, leadership, enterprise business partners, vendors and
project/design teams, in all aspects of the secure & reliable
hosting of applications throughout Exelon's large & complex
enterprise and real time operational environments. -- Provide hands
on support for delivery and maintenance of IT solutions. Provide IT
teams and business personnel with technology solutions by weighing
advantages of technology standards, market availability of
products, and risks and benefits of technology to meet business/IT
needs. Maintain significant customer engagement, work planning,
project management services provided to IT customers. Primary
Duties: PRIMARY DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Leads discussions with business partners and vendors to gather
information. Consults with leadership, architecture, project teams
and end users to identify system requirements and perform
feasibility analysis on potential changes related to existing and
future security and technical architectures. Writes and
disseminates system specifications, logical & physical architecture
diagrams, and implementation plans. Delivers practical, efficient,
and cost-effective solutions that satisfy business needs, including
hands-on configuration, troubleshooting and optimization and
supporting metrics for the same.
- Work closely with others to develop future plans, resource
requirements, migration strategies, and project schedules. Creates
and delivers presentations to Engineering and Architecture Review
Boards. Possesses deep understanding of current technologies and
service offerings within the industry. Provides oversight for less
experienced engineers.
- Design, support and maintain custom system integration with
other platforms, specific to the needs of the customers. Maintain
relevancy and knowledge in current and evolving emerging IT systems
technologies.
- Ensure all risks and issues are identified and are captured
following set process and are actioned appropriately. Responsible
to provide supporting data to leadership and peers.
- Maintains knowledge of and compliance with preferred
technologies, methodologies, standards and policies. Maintain
technical knowledge and business acumen within own discipline or
function. Strong debugging and problem-solving skills; participates
in peer code reviews.
- Manage RedHat 6, 7, 8, 9 servers from both a hardware and
operating system standpoint.
- Manage support of VMware vSphere hypervisor to allow hosting of
servers in a virtualized highly available environment.
- Configure and maintain server processes, configurations, and
backups.
- Maintain and monitor Linux and VMware platform health and
performance.
- Maintain server inventory information to ensure accuracy of
configuration management DB.
- Support the production release management system for
documenting, planning, and implementing IT changes.
- Plan, coordinate, communicate and implement security patching
activities for Linux server platforms.
- Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and
document changes.
- Assist in racking and stacking of servers in Exelon's
datacenters.
- Provide 24x7 support and participate in on call rotation for
critical production systems.
- Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment
activities after hours.
- Provide technical expertise and/or solution delivery support
for maintaining performance and reliability of server
solutions.
- Maintain and enhance engagement with business and IT partners
to sustain service levels and high availability of server compute
services. Visible and accessible to clients providing guidance for
how to successfully request new devices as needed.
- Build and maintains knowledge of new technologies or technology
opportunities for on-prem and Cloud based services.
- Assists in coordinating and implementing planned infrastructure
changes for business and/or IT clients.
- Ensures proper implementation of technology both within the
production and the development environments.
- Looks for ways to automate processes to allow more efficient
use of resources.
- Finds ways over, around and through barriers to success.
Self-starter. A results-oriented doer.
- Promotes and encourages Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Job
Scope: JOB SCOPE -- Designing, delivering, documenting, and
supporting infrastructure systems. Maintains deep knowledge of
technology and its application across our business areas or for our
customers. Leads in technological innovation to d rive new business
opportunities and solve complex business problems. Requires
advanced skill set and proficiency in discipline. Conducts work
assignments of higher complexity, under occasional supervision with
latitude for independent judgment. Creates and contributes to a
development-centric work environment where employees are
challenged, coached and engaged. Minimum Qualifications: MINIMUM
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems,
Computer Networking 4 - 7 years' experience in IT infrastructure
design, application design, cloud computing, disaster/recovery, or
7+ years of relevant experience in lieu of degree.
- Experience with system administration.
- Demonstrated ability to design and document processes &
procedures.
- Experience transitioning work to operational teams.
- Maintained experience with--at least one operational domain
such as storage, compute, database, collaboration, application
support, [cloud hosting and related technologies].--
- Demonstrated competence with business acumen within own
discipline or function.
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate highly
technical information in non-technical terminology (written and
verbal).
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with
strong teamwork skills.
- Demonstrates ability to influence up down and across.
- Drives innovation by leveraging alternative perspectives and
emerging technologies to deliver creative solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver work aligning to project
management principles & framework.
- Demonstrated ability to provide financial impact analysis.
- Troubleshooting & Monitoring:
- Solid understanding of the capabilities of standard monitoring
tools. Can make informed decisions on monitoring settings such as
sample size, level of criticality, and some self-healing
opportunities.--
- Cloud Technologies:
- Build and maintain knowledge of new technologies or technology
opportunities and assists in development of analysis of their use
for business and/or IT clients--
- Security Basics:
- Ability to evaluate a solution against current security
requirements and future industry trends.
- Scripting & Automation:
- Able to use PowerShell, Ansible, or another appropriate
scripting tool to automate common tasks/create reports and
troubleshoot issues with existing scripts. Preferred
Qualifications: PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Ability to lift up to 25lbs to rack servers with assistance and
use of server lifts as needed.
- Ability to travel domestically.
- 24/7 on-call rotational duties
- Experience administrating servers on-prem (physical and
virtual) and in Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure.
- Experience with Oracle Enterprise Linux, Solaris, Exadata
hardware helpful
- Experience with scripting language such as Python, Shell
- Zerto experience.
- Certifications such as Azure Administrator, Oracle Cloud
Administrator, VMware, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
preferred.
- Demonstrated ability with knowledge in current versions of
VMware hypervisor technology.
- Working level knowledge: Backups, RAID, SAN, and NAS
storage
- Makes well-thought-out decisions on complex or ambiguous
issues.
- Understanding of change management principles associated with
sustaining high availability of systems and preventing change
related incidents due to human performance factors.
- Takes good directions from Team Leads & Manager in performing
required work.
- Independence level: works under supervision Team Leads and/or
Manager. Benefits:
- Annual salary will vary based on a candidate's skills,
qualifications, experience, and other factors:USD $107,200.00/Yr. -
USD $160,800.00/Yr.
- Annual Bonus for eligible positions: 15%
- 401(k) match and annual company contribution
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Life and disability insurance
- Generous paid time off options, including vacation, sick time,
floating and fixed holidays, maternity leave and bonding/primary
caregiver leave or parental leave (based on position)
- Long Term Incentive Plan for eligible positions
- Wellbeing programs such as tuition reimbursement, adoption
assistance and fitness reimbursement
- Referral bonus program
- And much more
Keywords: Exelon, Joliet , Sr. Systems Engineer I, Other , Joliet, Illinois
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