Systems Engineer

Systems Engineer

Hybrid schedule at least one day per month in office.

Only PA residents will be considered.

• Responsible for functioning as the Technical SME on an enterprisewide systems.

• Responsible for implementations of products/services that involve significant Commonwealth oversight.

• Interpret process and report data to create meaningful business and operational dashboards.

• Maintain (patch troubleshoot) existing and future monitoring tools including System Center Operations Manager SolarWindsSightLine and SquaredUp.

• Identifies improvements to existing processes and tools to achieve high quality services/products.

• Create Azure Monitor resources and Log Analytics queries.

• Create document and maintain onprem and cloud automations.

• Create document and maintain SOAP/REST/JSON/API calls using PowerShell or other compatible languages.

• Maintain and troubleshoot monitoring tool connectivity to endpoints.

• Creates documentation for new processes

• Updates documentation for existing process

• Documents incidents and problems impacting monitoring services.

• Collaborate with the enterprise change manager to ensure processes are standardized and documented workflows are followed.

• Collaborate with the Enterprise Incident Manager to ensure that standardized SOPs and processes are consistently applied across incident and problem management.

• Monitor incident and problem resolution processes to ensure timely and effective service restoration and root cause analysis.

• Manage and document the operational procedures and responses of NOC teams to service delivery and incident management.

• Ensure all processes and workflows are documented in an accessible organized and secure manner for future reference.

• Establish and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)for all relevant operational processes.

• Emphasize the transition from informal persondependent workflows to formal roledriven processes.

• Develop and document a process documentation workflow that ensures all operational procedures are captured and updated regularly.

• Ensure that consistent and clear communication processes are in place for changes incidents and problem management across the NOC.

• Create and manage distribution lists for technical and nontechnical stakeholders (ETSO) to ensure relevant parties are informed of NOC updates.

• Enable selfmanagement of distribution lists via subscription options to streamline communication across the organization.

• Work closely with NOC staff to ensure effective communication regarding change incident and problem management on behalf of NUTSO.

• Ensure collaboration between different departments to harmonize efforts in incident problem and change communication.

• Complies with and develops recommendations for executive public and enterprise policy objectives as it relates to the delivery of Commonwealth IT services.

• Utilizes the Service Now Change management tool to input request for changes.

• Directs the development of policies and procedures consistent with Commonwealth standards and direction.

• Participates in Enterprise change management meetings for enterprise level service configuration and access changes for all supported locations is not impacted.

• Provides ongoing data submissions regarding network availability problem resolution and infrastructure enhancements for use in compilation of the monthly/quarterly customer Service Level Agreement (SLA) reports.

• Designs agency disaster recovery plans for the network infrastructure and participates in periodic plan updates and testing exercises.

• Reviews technical manuals and other literature attends seminars conferencesand training classes to maintain currency with new information servicesproducts and information technology developments in network technology.

• Performs other related duties as assigned to include those outlined in the CoG Plan when the Plan is activated. Responds to the designated alternate or secondary location when directed in response to a catastrophic incident.

• This position is expected to adhere to established organizational service management processes and procedures.

• 5 Years as SolarWinds admin/deployment experience

• 5 Years of Ansible admin/deployment experience

• 3 Years of Experience of Log Analytics Azure experience

• 8 Years of MS Windows Server admin/deployment experience

• 3 Years of Linux Server admin/deployment experience

• 5 Years of PowerShell scripting experience

• 3 Years of Incident Management Experience