Sr. Systems Engineer

The role

You will support and improve the infrastructure behind global business operations. The role covers data centers, hardware, virtualization, backups, networking, and security, and includes modernizing and automating these systems.

What you will do

• Deploy and manage hardware, including gray market systems, in enterprise data centers with help from on-site staff
• Design, implement, and migrate to modern private cloud infrastructure
• Establish and maintain configuration management using Foreman, Puppet Enterprise, and Ansible for Linux
• Enhance automated build and deployment pipelines for physical and virtual machines
• Create configuration roles and automation code using Ansible and Puppet
• Develop scripts to automate daily tasks for the Systems Engineering team
• Perform advanced troubleshooting for hardware, Linux, and Windows systems in large-scale environments
• Lead and plan infrastructure projects independently
• Provide subject matter expertise and contribute to architecture decisions
• Advise on data center best practices, including power configuration, HVAC, and rack design

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of Linux/Unix administration (Solaris, AIX, or other flavors)
• 3+ years of OpenStack engineering and administration
• 5+ years of VMWare or equivalent engineering and administration
• 5+ years of scripting experience with Bash, Perl, Ruby, Python, etc.
• 3–5 years of experience with system monitoring tools (Check_MK, Nagios, SolarWinds)
• 3–5 years of hands-on hardware management (Dell, SuperMicro, HP)
• 2–3 years of experience with Puppet for configuration management
• 5+ years of experience using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Skilled at mentoring and leading technical discussions, including whiteboarding sessions
• Excellent documentation skills, including wikis and diagramming tools such as Visio or Lucidchart
• Ability to take direction while also contributing ideas for environment improvements

Nice to have

• 1–2 years of storage administration (EMC, NetApp, 3PAR, Hitachi)
• 1–2 years of experience with F5 load balancers
• 2–4 years of public or hybrid cloud experience (AWS, Azure, Rackspace)
• 2–3 years of application development experience (Java, C++, C#/VB.NET, PHP, HTML, JavaScript)
• 1–2 years of CI/CD experience (Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.)
• 2+ years with Ansible AWX or Tower

About the company

Zeta Global is a NYSE-listed, data-powered marketing technology company founded in 2007. It offers the Zeta Marketing Platform for end-to-end marketing programs across email, display, social, search, and mobile.