Senior System Engineer
Pubblicato il 18-10-2026 - MainStreaming in Lombardia
We are seeking an experienced Senior System Engineer to join our team. In this senior role, the engineer will lead system provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and maintenance efforts to ensure stable, optimized operations. The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in Linux systems administration and configuration management and will also provide mentorship to junior team members while contributing to the documentation and development of best practices.
Key Responsibilities:The Senior System Operations Engineer will take ownership of provisioning and configuring Linux-based systems across various server roles, including edge servers and application-specific servers. They will ensure consistent and compliant system configurations, leveraging tools such as Rudder to automate and standardize setups across environments. Additionally, they will play a key role in creating and maintaining documentation for these processes, building a knowledge base that supports team-wide efficiency and scalability.
A primary responsibility in this role is establishing and refining monitoring and observability practices. The engineer will oversee and optimize monitoring platforms (e.g., Zabbix) to track system metrics, set up alerting, and quickly identify and address performance issues. They will also conduct regular system maintenance tasks—such as updates, patches, and performance tuning—ensuring high availability and system efficiency.
As a senior engineer, this role includes mentoring junior team members, guiding them through troubleshooting processes, and sharing best practices to elevate the team’s collective expertise. The engineer will collaborate on capacity planning, working to align infrastructure resources with current demands and projected growth. This role also involves managing storage and networking configurations, using open-source solutions like Ceph for storage and tools like FRR for network routing, to maintain high data throughput and system reliability.