Who is Forcepoint?
Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you’re in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we’re missing is you!
Responsibilities:
Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Forcepoint’s services
Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards and methods for large-scale distributed systems
Collaborate with a world-class engineering team to propose features that solve recurring patterns of customer complaints
Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning
Participate in on call rotation, Participate, collaborate and provide guidance in retrospectives
Find scalability bottlenecks and areas for performance improvements
Strong team player with a high degree of flexibility
Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive
Requirements:
Must have architectural Exchange, Active Directory, Office 365, and ADFS experience including the ability to design and configure all facets of an Office O365 and a GCC High Tenant.
Ability to write programs/code using at least one modern programming language, preferably Python, Go, Perl or Ruby
Strong fundamentals of Cloud Architecture and Cloud Technology offerings (Docker, Kubernetes, Micro-services etc.)
Understanding of IaaS and PaaS technology stacks
Understanding of Monitoring and Observability principles, with experience of either deploying or using a monitoring/observability platform such as NewRelic, DataDog, Graffana, Solarwinds, Zabbix, LogicMonitor etc.
Strong networking fundamentals
Understanding of Infrastructure as Code principles, having an experience with IaC tool-stack such as Terraform
Strong grasp on Configuration Management tool-stack, such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet etc.
Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and its related tool-stack (Git, Jenkins, etc.)
Automation driven, service availability focused, with an understanding of Incident Management, RCA and Change Control practices
Exposed to Agile methodologies and practices
Experience with Amazon Web Services and/or any other public cloud
Blend of both Development and SRE mindset (i.e. software and infrastructure)
Experience with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and software design
Systematic problem-solving skills, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive
Procedural and troubleshooting documentation skills
7+ years of experience as a Systems Engineer\Admin
Knowledge of SAN technology, with a minimum of 3+ years’ experience
Knowledge and experience in the design, implementation and support of VMware’s product line, including vSphere, vCloud, Director,View and SRM
Working technical knowledge of Microsoft operating systems and services in a multi-site topology, including Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DFS, IIS and Cluster Services
Working knowledge and experience with configuring and managing O365 including, Outlook, SharePoint, One Drive, etc
Working technical knowledge of Linux operating systems including RHEL and Ubuntu
Experience with multiple enterprise backup strategies, including agent and SAN based backups, snapshots, and file and block level replication
Working knowledge of PowerShell or similar scripting language(s)
Experience monitoring, maintaining and performance tuning Compellent storage arrays
Experience supporting a global environment and partnering with a global support team
Must be able to quickly diagnose system problems and implement solutions to restore functionality
Additional Qualification:
Expertise in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
Familiarity with running web services at scale; understanding of Unix systems internals and networking, AWS
Understanding of Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond, taking in system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols along the way
Good knowledge of virtualization technologies and container technologies
Experience with containers and HA clusters; experience with Docker and Amazon ECS /Kubernetes/ Mesosphere/Docker Swarm a plus VMware certification is preferred
MCSE, MCITP, and CCNP certifications are pluses
Microsoft Exchange Server experience is preferred
Experience with HP and Dell servers and/or Nutanix converged infrastructure
Linux experience is desired
Don’t meet every single qualification? Studies show people are hesitant to apply if they don’t meet all requirements listed in a job posting. Forcepoint is focused on building an inclusive and diverse workplace – so if there is something slightly different about your previous experience, but it otherwise aligns and you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You could be a great candidate for this or other roles on our team.
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