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Sr. Systems Engineer

Employer
Exelon Corporation
Location
Parkville, MD
Closing date
Jun 21, 2021

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Description At Exelon, we've got a place for you! Join the nation's leading competitive energy provider, with one of the largest electricity generation portfolios and retail customer bases in the country. You will be part of a family of companies that strives for the highest standards of power generation, competitive energy sales, and energy delivery. Our team of outstanding professionals is focused on performance, thought leadership, innovation, and the power of ideas that come from a diverse and inclusive workforce. Exelon will provide you the tools and resources you need to design, build and enhance a successful career. We are also dedicated to motivating the success of our employees through competitive base salary, incentives, and health and retirement benefits. Join Exelon and share your passion at a forward-thinking Fortune 100 company. Establish yourself in a place where you can truly shine and create a brighter, more sustainable tomorrow. Energize your career at Exelon! PRIMARY PURPOSE OF POSITION This role supports the BGE IT Utility of the Future, Smart Meter Support team. The Sr. Systems Engineer will possess the experience and skills to design and support in an advanced role within the Exelon IT organization by providing expert technical guidance, direction and insight to project managers and stakeholders regarding IT system solutions and improvements being deployed within the enterprise environment. . Must possess skillful abilities to design and drive high priority and complex IT system initiatives and project design solutions [to include both cloud, non-cloud and hybrid cloud models]. The Sr. Systems Engineer will be expected to provide technical leadership to support the delivery and maintenance of IT solutions supporting Exelon. Must have the ability to evaluate IT infrastructure and application solutions and make recommendations for supporting and improving application and data workloads within these hosting models. This role will work in collaboration with other IT teams, leadership, enterprise business partners, vendors and project/design teams, in all aspects of the secure & reliable hosting of applications throughout Exelon s large & complex enterprise and real-time operational environments. PRIMARY DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES - Protect production by exercising sound judgment and following operational practices and procedures - Writing and managing scripts and utilities to automate day-to-day systems administration and configuration management tasks. - Assist with the monitoring performance analysis of existing applications and ensuring that the system is consistent with ongoing needs. - Write technical documentation, operational procedures, systems documentation and Incident and problem communications and reporting. - Quickly restore service during system outages, provide troubleshooting support to team members, perform proactive problem prevention, and advance technical details to technical lead and/or to vendor support. - Some knowledge and experience with Red Hat Enterprise (OS, Config, and admin) - Sr. Systems Engineers within Exelon are expected to establish direction and determine need for IT assessments, designs, connectivity, validating the connectivity of various hosting vendors and deployment of associated technologies. Provide consulting, guidance and recommendations to senior leadership within these areas. Conduct technical discovery sessions with vendors and customers. Lead and coordinate business projects, planning, maintenance, and network connectivity for one or more major Business Units. Establish the design, configuration, deployment and operation of [cloud and non-cloud based] systems and assist with the migration of existing applications to new cloud hosting platforms. Provide expert-level IT systems engineering, design and operation consultation with leadership, project teams and end-users to identify system requirements and establish feasibility analysis on potential changes related to security and technical architecture. - Collaborate with leadership and others to develop future technology road maps, resource requirements, migration strategies, and project schedules. Develop and provide input into presentations and/or Engineering and Architecture Review Boards. Participate in potential refactoring, refresh, or redesign required during [cloud] migrations. Create documentation to install, replace, and upgrade [cloud] components and other application hosting solutions. Comprehend technologies and service offerings within the industry. Create requirement documents, SOW, logical & physical architecture diagrams, and implementation plans to integrate into business environments. - Determine need and initiate product & service evaluation, testing, lab and mockup solutions as needed. Serve as a senior resource (Subject Matter Expert) [in the Hybrid Cloud enterprise journey] encompassing ongoing architecture, design, planning, configuration, implementation, testing and documentation of the enterprise IT systems hosting environment. Contribute to assigned IT projects and deployments to ensure solutions are delivered to meet business requirements. Accountable for engineering, implementing and supporting solutions at the component level, including hands-on configuration, troubleshooting and optimization and supporting metrics for the same. - Position may occasionally require support outside of normal business hours to maintain 24 x 7 operations of applications and supporting suite of applications. (administering, configuring, solving problems and supporting Unix servers in production and non-production environment). Serving as part of the team for on-call rotation and weekend activities as required. POSITION SCOPE - Position interacts with all levels of employees, including executives, vendors, involved in the design, connectivity, maintenance, review, approval, testing and communication of business plans. - Position has senior-level expertise and design competency in platform or application area of expertise, and tools/systems associated with these functions. - Work under minimal supervision. - Mentors junior-level team members and others. Qualifications MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - Bachelor s Degree (Computer Science, Information Technology or related field) and 5 8 years' experience (IT infrastructure design, application design, [cloud computing], disaster/recovery, etc.) or 9 12 years equivalent job experience. - Demonstrated consulting, presentation, and IT project management skills. - Demonstrated expert proficiency in at least two engineering domains such as storage, compute, database, collaboration, application design, [cloud hosting and related technologies] - Ability to travel domestically. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Master s Degree - Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. - Technical Certification in related field of expertise Exelon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and employees or applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to: age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. VEVRAA Federal Contractor EEO is the Law Poster

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