Position
Title: Systems Engineer II

Base Salary:
$90,200
to $137,500 annually DOE

Benefits:
Medical,
dental, vision, 401k, flexible spending account, paid sick leave and paid time
off, parental leave, quarterly performance bonus, training, career growth, and
education reimbursement programs.

Ziply
Fiber is a local internet service provider dedicated to elevating the
connected lives of the communities we serve. We offer the fastest home
internet in the nation, a refreshingly great customer
experience, and affordable plans that put customers in
charge.

As
our state-of-the-art fiber network expands, so does our need for team
members who can help us grow and realize our goals.

Our Company
Values:

• 
  Genuinely Caring:
  We treat customers
  and colleagues like neighbors, with empathy and full attention.

• 
  Empowering You:
  We help customers
  choose what is best for them, and we support
  employees in implementing new ideas and solutions.

• 
  Innovation and Improvement:
  We
  constantly seek ways to improve how we serve customers and each
  other. 

• 
  Earning Your Trust:
  We build trust
  through clear, honest, human communication.

Job Summary

The Systems Engineer II will
have large company engineering and application experience who is adept at
working with development and system administration teams to independently
implement, maintain, and troubleshoot Ziply Fiber’s expanding systems infrastructure
with a focus on automation and efficiency. You will design and maintain
Hypervisor Clusters, Kubernetes Clusters, Linux and Windows virtual machines,
storage area networks, and infrastructure automation.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The Essential Duties and Responsibilities listed below are a range of
duties performed by the employee and not intended to reflect all duties
performed.

Automation Engineering & Delivery

·
Independently
contributes to the development of custom code to integrate platform components,
fill tooling gaps and solve potentially unique situations.

·
Perform
development, testing, implementation, and review of complex automation
solutions related to provisioning, monitoring, and configuring a network and
infrastructure environment.

·
Employ
modern CI/CD pipelines using DevOps tooling.

Systems Integration & Reporting

·
Establishing
system/data integrations to enhance existing or establish new processes.

·
Automating
operational reports e.g., SLA reporting, utilization statistics, and network
forecasting.

Quality, Standards & Documentation

·
Provide
peer review and guidance on code and perform quality assurance tasks.

·
Responsible
for creation of and contribution to; processes, standards, technical
documentation, and design diagrams.

·
Write
and maintain technical standards and documentation.

Research & Team Enablement

·
Conduct
technical research and maintain viable knowledge of technology trends, new
software, and best practices.

·
Provide
training to other network domain teams for the adoption of automation
capabilities.

Availability & Operational Support

·
Must be
available to work regular business hours Pacific Standard Time.

·
Must
also be available to work on-call, evenings and weekends as needed.

·
Able to
work closely with InfoSec team to address security and vulnerability related
issues.

Other Duties

·
Performs
other duties as required to support the business and evolving organization
.

Required Qualifications:

·
High
school diploma or GED.

·
Bachelor’s
degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.

·
Minimum
of five (5) years of engineering and application experience working with
development teams and system administration teams.

·
Minimum
of five (5) years of work experience in a large, geographically distributed
server architecture.

·
Minimum
of five (5) years of experience working with development teams for functional
requirements on distributed server systems running internally developed
applications.

·
Minimum
of five (5) years of experience working for large telecommunication companies.

·
Minimum
of five (5) years of networking experience with focus on server connectivity.

·
Experience
with large scale software upgrades and versioning changes across multiple
servers.

·
In
depth knowledge of service provider systems, applications, and processes for IT
organizations.

·
In
depth knowledge of service provider products, services, and offerings for
commercial and residential services.

·
Ability
to automate repetitive engineering tasks.

·
Familiarity
with SOA and Microservice software design patterns.

·
Development
skills:

o
Powershell

o
Python

o
JavaScript

o
NodeJs

·
Hands-on
application experience:

o
Deploying/configuring
Nginx, Apache and core Linux subsystems like bind, iptables, etc.

o
Version
control (e.g., Git/Gitlab, Github)

o
CI/CD
(e.g., Jenkins, Travis, TeamCity or equivalent)

o
Docker
containerization and clustering (Kubernetes/ECS)

o
Configuration
management tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef)

·
Knowledge
of software life cycle management with emphasis on inception, defining
processes and developing technical business requirements.

·
Experience
with Agile (Scrum, Kanban) software delivery methodology.

·
Ability
to write Ops guides/MOPs/etc. as needed.

·
Effectively
communicate between non-technical people and deeply technical SME’s.

·
Ability
to communicate effectively across multiple large organizational structures.

·
Driven
to identify and provide effective solutions as needed.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 
  Ability
  to work independently and apply sound judgment and reasoning skills to a
  variety of situations.
• 
  Ability
  to multi-task and collaborate effectively with other personnel to meet
  deadlines.
• 
  Strong
  organizational skills.
• 
  Ability
  to work within critical deadlines.
• 
  Ability
  to adjust to rapidly changing priorities and schedules.
• 
  Proven
  ability to understand and codify a manual process into an automated
  process using workflow-like concepts.
• 
  Understanding
  and familiarity with Ansible, Jinja and other Infrastructure as Code
  tools.
• 
  Understanding
  and familiarity with computing technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker,
  Linux, containers, virtualization, and cloud technologies (OpenStack, GCP,
  Azure, etc.).
• 
  Knowledge
  of IP/Ethernet networking fundamentals.
• 
  Strong
  understanding of security related frameworks and AAA implementation model.
• 
  Interest
  and ability to research new and emerging technologies to better solve
  networking problems.
• 
  Excellent
  analytical skills.
• 
  Strong
  organizational, multi-tasking, and prioritizing skills.
• 
  Ability
  to work independently and apply sound judgment and reasoning skills to a
  variety of situations, multi-task and collaborate effectively with other
  personnel to meet deadlines.
• 
  Ability
  to translate highly technical information into non-technical terms and
  user documentation.
• 
  Strong
  verbal and written communication, attention to detail and familiarity with
  compliance concepts.
• 
  Ability
  to work within critical deadlines.
• 
  Must be
  available to work regular business hours Pacific Standard Time.
• 
  Must
  also be available to work on-call, evenings and weekends as needed.
• 
  Able to
  work closely with InfoSec team to address security and vulnerability
  related issues.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be currently authorized to
work in the US for any employer. Sponsorship is not available for this
position.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described
here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to
successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform
the essential functions.

Essential and marginal functions may require
maintaining physical condition necessary for bending, stooping, sitting, walking,
or standing for prolonged periods of time; most of time is spent sitting in a
comfortable position with frequent opportunity to move about. The employee must
occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities
required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision,
peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

Work is performed in an office setting with
exposure to computer screens and requires extensive use of a computer,
keyboard, mouse, and multi-line telephone system. The work is primarily a
modern office setting.

At all times, Ziply Fiber must be your
primary employer. Unless otherwise prohibited by law, employees may not hold
outside employment nor be self-employed without obtaining approval in writing
from Ziply Fiber. In holding outside employment or self-employment, employees
should ensure that participation does not conflict with responsibilities to
Ziply Fiber or its business interests.

Diverse Workforce / EEO:

Ziply Fiber is
an equal opportunity employer. Ziply Fiber will consider all qualified
candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age,
marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, and the presence of a
non-job-related handicap or disability or any other legally protected status.

Ziply Fiber requires a pre-employment background
check as conditions of employment. Ziply Fiber may require a pre-employment
drug screening.

Ziply Fiber is a drug free workplace.