Senior Systems & Build Engineer

Tetra Tech DPK is implementing the Justice Sector Assistance Project (JSAP) IV under a contract funded by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL).  JSAP IV is a five-year project (one base year and four option years) and serves as follow-on to three predecessor projects JSAP I, II, and III. JSAP IV provides support across the West Bank to the Public Prosecution Offices (PPOs), Palestinian Civil Police (PCP), Military Justice Commission (MJC), the Civil Defense (CD) and the Preventive Security Organization (PSO).

JSAP IV is seeking to hire qualified personnel to fill the following position:

Senior Systems & Build Engineer

Position Summary

The Senior Systems Engineer will be consulted from the design stage through production troubleshooting and from networking to application behavior. The Systems Engineer is ultimately responsible for making sure the production systems are reliable and perform well. Additionally, The Systems Engineer is also responsible for reviewing and improving network infrastructure, systems’ build, release process, systems deployment schema, and components for the organization.

This position requires a deep understanding of networks, operating systems, multi-tiered web applications and services structure and deployment, software development and builds tools, and the ability to learn new applications and concepts quickly. Strong scripting skills are essential.

Position Responsibilities                                                           

-Reviewing current existing network, systems, servers’ deployments, and setup structure and then designing overall systems deployment architecture to ensure that internal office and production needs are stable and secure.
-Designing and documenting the environment, hardware specifications, and software layers to provide for a reliable, scalable, secure and highly available systems environment across multiple geographical locations.
-Developing and maintaining documentation related to the design, installation, administration and maintenance of systems.
-Designing and maintaining a repeatable, documented patch deployment methodology for administrators to implement.
-Work with PCP-ICT team to plan for, maintain, and deploy servers’ operation.
-Resolving technical and security issues.
-Capacity planning, troubleshooting, and monitoring systems and applications.
-Understanding the entire software stack in use, from kernel issues to application deployment as needed, performing network, servers, OS.
-Defining and ensuring systems adhere to IT security policies on OS level, communication protocols, technology, systems, and deployment schema.
-Performing root cause analysis for service interruption recovery; create preventative measures and present to management.
-Discovering and preventing any potential kinds of attacks like denial of service, users’ impersonation, data sniffing…etc.
-Supporting off-site disaster recovery efforts by participating in routine disaster recovery tests.
-Improving stability and fault tolerance of our systems and network infrastructure.
-Automating and maintaining scheduled backups of important office and production data.
-Ensuring stability, availability, performance and maintenance of the 24/7 mission-critical production environment.
-Managing system performance, making recommendations to improve and implement system-wide changes to enhance overall system proficiency.
-Mentoring, supervising, training, and providing full capacity building for a permanent PCP-ICT team.
-Guiding lower-level administrators and support personnel.
-Recommends and implements policies and standards and ensures adherence to team procedures.
-Database administration duties, including setup/configurations/upgrade, data population, access control, monitoring, replication and backups, load balancing and automatic fail-over, tuning indexes and DB/OS-level parameters to optimize performance, etc.
- Work with the software development team to enhance and continuously improve the software build environment and to foster Agile development practices.


Applications should be sent by fax or e-mail, clearly indicating the position of interest, with attached CV and cover letter detailing your qualifications. The application should also include a copy of official university certificate.  Applications should be submitted no later than Wednesday, August 17, 2016. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

JSAP is an equal opportunity employer.

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