Systems Engineer – AWS, Linux/Windows, Terraform & Kubernetes

About the role

The Systems Engineer will be part of the Infrastructure & Platform Operations team at our client's growing technology organization. This role involves building, maintaining, and improving secure, scalable infrastructure across both cloud and on-premises environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and secure infrastructure across AWS and on-premises environments
• Administer Linux and Windows servers, including patching, performance tuning, and lifecycle management
• Build and maintain networking infrastructure including VPNs, firewalls, load balancers, VPCs, and subnet architecture
• Support CI/CD pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes workloads, and Infrastructure-as-Code
• Manage identity, access controls, credentials, and secure system access
• Maintain infrastructure health through monitoring and proactively identifying performance and reliability issues
• Implement and maintain security controls, vulnerability management, and patching processes
• Support backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity
• Participate in production incident response and perform root-cause analysis
• Support infrastructure and operational requirements for AI-enabled applications and automation
• Affordably support capacity planning, performance tuning, and cloud cost optimization
• Create and maintain architecture documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures
• Collaborate with Software Engineering, Product, and Operations teams on infrastructure needs and platform improvements

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in Systems Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Network Engineering, DevOps, or a related role
• Hands-on experience with AWS, including services such as EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, and Route 53
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, firewalls, load balancing, VPCs, and subnets
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK
• Understanding of IAM/SSO, secrets management, vulnerability management, and infrastructure security
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and business teams

Qualifications

• Experience with Okta or another enterprise SSO platform
• Experience supporting AI/LLM-powered applications or APIs in production
• Experience with backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity processes
• AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect or SysOps Administrator
• CCNA, Network+
• Terraform Associate certification
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience