System Engineer

About the Opportunity

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Systems Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and maintain the critical infrastructure that supports Driscoll’s enterprise applications and systems. This role requires a strategic thinker and technical leader who can drive innovation, ensure high availability and performance, and mentor team members in best practices. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in systems engineering, cloud services, automation, and incident management.

About the Opportunity

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Systems Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and maintain the critical infrastructure that supports Driscoll’s enterprise applications and systems. This role requires a strategic thinker and technical leader who can drive innovation, ensure high availability and performance, and mentor team members in best practices. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in systems engineering, cloud services, automation, and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy the critical infrastructure servers, platforms, and cloud services needed to operate the applications and systems Driscoll’s requires.
• Provide technical leadership to implement new systems, services, management platforms, and other infrastructure components as needed.
• Mentor team members to follow best practices among the other systems engineering, administration, and technical staff.
• Automate common practices and procedures to streamline infrastructure operations, including basic system builds, deployments, and initial configuration of new accounts and services.
• Document standard operating procedures for routing and complex tasks to be carried out by systems administrators and technicians.
• Assist with incident resolution and major incident recovery of escalated issues.
• Prepare the monitoring, feedback mechanisms, and customer engagement necessary to ensure that our infrastructure meets the needs of the business.
• Ensure high performance, high availability, and disaster recovery are designed into every deployment / project.
• Design and implement the monitoring, alerting, and incident response plans to ensure services and applications are available at the highest levels.
• Conduct performance and capacity management reviews of managed systems and services.

Candidate Profile

• Higher education in computer science or technical field and / or extensive on the job experience as an infrastructure systems engineer for 5-10 years.
• Strong teamwork, leadership, and technical knowledge skills.
• Extensive experience in Linux system administration and management.
• Strong experience in building and managing Linux instances in the Cloud and on-premises virtual environments.
• Lead systems engineering, administration, and automation across our server and cloud platforms, including Linux and Windows Server, Active Directory, and similar technologies.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with automation of standard processes and a rigorous procedural mindset including experience with tools such as Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Octopus, Git.
• Extensive virtualization experience, both on-prem and cloud (AWS preferred).
• Strong knowledge of data prioritization, storage, and management technologies to ensure performance meets the requirements of workload / workflow in cloud and on-premises.

About Driscolls

Driscoll's is the global market leader for fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. With more than 100 years of farming heritage and hundreds of independent growers around the world, Driscoll's is passionate about growing fresh, beautiful and delicious berries. Our values of humility, passion and trustworthiness have guided our mission to delight consumers around the world.

Driscoll's exclusive patented berry varieties are developed through years of research using only natural breeding methods – meaning, no GMOs. From farm-to-table, we focus on delivering a high quality, premium berry experience with our many supply chain partners.

Driscoll's is the trusted brand for Only the Finest Berries.

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