Harvard Medical School · 1 day ago
Systems Engineer
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
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
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
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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