Senior Staff Systems Engineer - B2B Communications

Major Responsibilities

• Architecting, managing, maintenance, and support of Company’s 3rd Party data exchange and integration technologies.
• Ensures proper change management processes are always followed.
• Analyze system / software performance and adjust based on any identified problems.
• Insure it is utilized at its highest capacity.
• Perform disaster recovery and testing.
• Implement Automation of tasks leveraging PowerShell / PowerCli / BASH.
• Provide project planning with the ability to follow organizational processes.
• Consistently communicate with client groups to determine needs.
• Consistent communication of project status to management and customers.
• Communications skills both written and verbal throughout a project and when providing support.

Qualifications

• Required experience in the following hardware / software: Windows / RedHat Server operating systems, Network Interface setup and configurations, Microsoft Office Applications (including Visio).
• Required experience in the following data exchange protocols/tools: SFTP, FTP, AS2, HTTP/HTTPS, API.
• Ability to analyze connection logs (either Penske software or those provided by a trading partner).
• Beneficial to have experience in OFTP2, MQ.
• Beneficial to have experience in Kermit, BASH, Curl, Linux and Windows scripting languages.
• Security (certificates, keys, ciphers, protocol negotiation).
• Basic communications infrastructure components (DNS, forward and reverse proxies).
• Basic understanding of TCP/IP protocol network topology.
• Connection debugging tools (TCPDUMP, Wireshark).

Preferred Experience

• 3rd Party warehousing and transportation software products.
• 3rd Party Data Exchange software from Cleo and Software AG.

Soft Skills Requirements

• Written and oral interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Critical thinking.
• Ability to provide coaching/mentoring to junior level associates.
• Lead cross-functional teams for small and mid-size projects.
• Ability to resolve conflict within a work group.
• Problem solving.
• Customer focus.
• Ability to work independently or on a team.
• Time management and prioritization.
• Project management.

Education and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Green Belt, Black Belt, Lean, or PMP certification preferred.
• 7 years of functional and technical experience which should include at least 2 years of broad infrastructure design experience.