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Harvard Medical School · 1 day ago

Systems Engineer

Boston, MA

Full-time

Hybrid

Entry, Mid Level

2+ years exp

Harvard Medical School is dedicated to improving health and well-being through excellence in teaching, learning, and innovation. The Systems Engineer will build modern systems and configurations focusing on automation and cloud technologies, support the school’s mission, and act as a subject matter expert for researchers and faculty.

Education

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Responsibilities

Implement and support technical solutions to deliver business requirements

Identify and evaluate opportunities to improve services

Contribute ideas to coding best practices and new technologies

Evaluate third party hosted and public cloud-based service offerings (compute, storage, application, orchestration, etc) that may support or enhance research and business goals

Work with the Platform Engineering team to analyze existing systems and related data to support initiatives and ongoing system implementations, utilizing a feedback loop to drive Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)

Work closely with other team members and departments to evaluate new system needs and data sources for adherence to the School’s security and privacy policies

In conjunction with principal users and data owners, participate in decision-making about system design and implementation

Work to ensure existing and new systems provide interoperability with internal and university wide systems and groups

Draw on relationship and technical skills to act as technical liaison to internal and external clients

Abide by and follow the Harvard University IT technical standards, policies and Code of Conduct

Other duties as assigned

Qualification

System administrationDevOpsAutomation managementBashLinux administrationCloud managementSystem monitoringNetworking skillsTeam performanceService mindset

Required

Minimum of two years' post-secondary education or relevant work experience

Two years of experience in the fields of system administration, DevOps and/or cybersecurity

Experience in Bash and at least one additional language (java, C, Python, Perl, Ruby, Go, etc.)

Experience with NIX/Linux system administration (Red Hat/Debian variants)

Automation and configuration management (puppet/ansible)

Basic understanding of cloud architectures, tooling, and implementations; Source management (git/mercurial/svn)

Experience with public cloud (Azure, AWS) management and automation

Experience evaluating and deploying open-source tools, hardware and conceptual knowledge of storage, network, and servers

System monitoring and configuration (zabbix/nagios/ganglia/sensu)

Experience with centralized storage solutions (EMC / Isilon)

General Networking skills (Layer 2 & 3 switching and routing, TCP/IP, etc)

Demonstrated team performance skills, service mindset approach, and the ability to act as a trusted advisor

Preferred

Protected data, HIPAA, Health Information Privacy experience or equivalent

Completion of Harvard IT Academy specified foundational courses (or external equivalent)

Benefits

Generous paid time off including parental leave

Medical, dental, and vision health insurance coverage starting on day one

Retirement plans with university contributions

Wellbeing and mental health resources

Support for families and caregivers

Professional development opportunities including tuition assistance and reimbursement

Commuter benefits, discounts and campus perks

Company

Harvard Medical School

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At Harvard Medical School, our mission is to create and nurture a diverse community of the best people committed to leadership in alleviating human suffering caused by disease.

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Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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