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The Sr System Engineer Managed Services supports business solutions. The purpose of this role is to develop business software solutions for complex and large-scale projects through object and data modeling, database design, programming, quality assurance, and implementation support. The Sr System Engineer participates in application standards development and serves as an evangelist for best practices.
What you Will Do:
- Perform all stages of the infrastructure development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and deployment.
- Lead development of automation solutions and configuration frameworks using Ansible and Python to support provisioning, compliance enforcement, and patching workflows.
- Develop detailed estimates for platform improvements and participate in capacity planning, performance analysis, and optimization efforts.
- Collaborate with project managers, architects, and stakeholders to determine requirements, estimate work, and deliver solutions aligned with platform roadmaps.
- Define and implement CI/CD pipelines and automation strategies for deploying infrastructure-as-code, system updates, and platform configurations.
- Lead and develop high-level system narratives, storyboards, and user interface prototypes.
- Write and maintain documentation, system narratives, workflow diagrams, and user guides to support repeatable automation processes and onboarding of team members.
- Lead and develop system test plans, ensure software quality assurance (SQA) standards are achieved, and validate that business goals are accomplished.
- Contribute to solution architecture and internal tooling decisions that balance security, cost, performance, and operational simplicity.
- Ensure software quality by conducting code reviews, writing unit and integration tests, and enforcing adherence to CDW ’s infrastructure coding standards.
- Identify issues that require more attention, and work to resolve issues based on an understanding of the business problem being solved.
- Make technical decisions to meet the design goals laid out in product road map and by management
- Identify and resolve technical blockers by collaborating with subject matter experts and aligning cross-functional efforts.
- • Drive test automation and validation of infrastructure tooling to ensure functional correctness, resilience, and compliance to engineering standards.
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