Description
Sr. Systems Engineer
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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.
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or relevant field required. 8+ years experience required.
Job Responsibilities:
- Direct programmers and analysts to make changes to existing databases and database management systems. Direct others in coding logical and physical database descriptions. Review project requests describing database user needs to estimate time and cost required to accomplish project. Review and approve database development and determine project scope and limitations. Approve, schedule, plan and supervise the installation and testing of new products and improvements to computer systems. Implement security measures to safeguard information in computer files against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure. Develop standards and guidelines to guide the use and acquisition of software and to protect vulnerable information.
Skills:
- Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service and interpersonal skills. Strong ability to work independently and manage one's time. Strong leadership and mentoring skills necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback. Strong knowledge of the full software development life cycle: from business/systems analysis, through requirements gathering and functional specification authoring, to development, testing and delivery. Strong ability to troubleshoot issues and make system changes as needed to resolve issue. Strong knowledge of circuit boards, processors, electronic equipment and computer hardware and software. Strong knowledge of computer development software across multiple platforms.
The person is going to help with the following workset:
- Upgrade Harvest Infrastructure (install new version of the Database, new harvest agents, and new Harvest brokers)
- Develop a roadmap for migrating Harvest repositories from Harvest into GIT/Artifactory
Additional Skills:
- Currently Oracle 1we have a pending ISM for upgrading Harvest DB from 0 to 11. The ISM needs to be remediated by the end of the year.
- We would like to use this opportunity and look for someone who has skills in Continuous Integration and Delivery with experience in GIT, Jenkins, uDeploy, instead of Harvest, given the fact that we are planning to decommission harvest in 2018, and due to the fact that all new harvest development is stopped and we do not need harvest engineering skills past the ISM remediation. (we do have skills to be able to support harvest, just not engineering skills to execute the upgrade of the system in order to remediate the ISM
Top Skills:
- CA Harvest SCM
- GIT/Artifactory
- Oracle DB
- systems engineering
- Application installation
- Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012.
- Scripting experience.