- Bureau à Canada
Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior System Engineer to support the automation, security, reliability, and operational stability of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
As a strong, hands-on engineer, you will work within the Senior System Engineer, reporting to and coordinating priorities with the Team Lead or Manager. The ideal candidate possesses deep experience in Linux systems, networking, cloud platforms, automation, CI/CD, and production operations, with the ability to work independently and troubleshoot complex issues.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain, operate, and improve production infrastructure environments and Linux-based systems.
- Support cloud, virtualization, and container-based platforms while improving system hardening, monitoring, logging, and alerting practices.
- Investigate and resolve production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implemented long-term improvements.
- Work closely with engineering teams to support release processes and maintain clear infrastructure documentation, procedures, and runbooks.
Required Skills and Experience
- 10+ years of Strong System Engineer with Linux administration and troubleshooting experience in production-grade environments.
- Deep understanding of networking protocols and concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, SSL/TLS, HTTP/HTTPS, routing, firewalls, and load balancing).
- Virtualization with: VMware, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization for hosting VMs, OpenStack, HPE Morpheus Essentials with HPE VM Essentials hypervisor, Azure Local, Nutanix, Microsoft Hyper-V
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, release management, and environment promotion workflows.
- Hands-on experience with configuration management tools, specifically Chef.
- Solid scripting skills using Bash, Python, or similar languages to automate repetitive tasks.
- Proficiency with Git and GitHub, including branching strategies, pull requests, and code review processes.
- Hands-on experience with one or more cloud/virtualization platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure, or VMware.
- Experience with container tools (Docker / Podman).
- Experience with container orchestration or enterprise platforms (Kubernetes, OpenShift, or HPE VME/virtualization) is a strong advantage.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure security, hardening, and operational best practices.
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, centralized logging, and structured production incident response.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
- Knowledge of stacks like ELK or OpenSearch.
- Experience with high-availability systems, backup, disaster recovery, and microservices.
Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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