What are the responsibilities and job description for the System Engineer position at Motion Recruitment?
Our client, a major airline, is actively looking for a System Engineer to join their team in Minneapolis, MN! This role is onsite so local candidates are required.
***This is a 1 year initial contract with the opportunity to convert***
This System Engineer will be responsible for certifying and supporting hardware peripheral devices for the company's Enterprise environment. This person will be responsible for the evaluation, testing, certification, documentation, implementation, and support of hardware platforms.
Responsibilities
- Analyze, design, and document peripheral devices/platforms/systems to meet enterprise requirements.
- Certify, configure, document, install, maintain, test, and troubleshoot hardware systems.
- Remote diagnostic problem solving and resolution.
- Certify and implement driver updates, upgrades, and/or changes into the environment.
- Perform technical reviews comparing enterprise standard platform components with that of their leading industry competitors.
- Install, customize, maintain, test, and troubleshoot operating systems and other systems software.
- Perform root cause analysis to quickly recover from service interruptions, and to prevent recurring problems.
- Consult with other business units (e.g. application groups, DBAs, middleware, etc.) to configure devices for production installation.
- Design and document enterprise support standards and procedures.
- Ensure platforms/systems conform to established enterprise/industry standards (systems management, security, operating systems, etc.) and reference models.
- Monitor, manage, and tune platforms to ensure expected availability and performance levels are achieved.
Required Skills & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in an IT field in addition to 2 years of experience designing/administering/supporting 1 or more platforms is preferred
- Strong understanding of peripheral devices and device connectivity to include serial, UCB, and Network topologies
- Experience in hardware firmware configuration
- Knowledge and use of Tera Term and writing scripts in Powershell required
- RFID experience is a plus
