IT Systems Engineer

Sterling Payment Technologies processes transactions for all major credit cards, including Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express. Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Sterling is represented in communities across the country by independent sales offices, an internal sales team, banks and associations.

Sterling Payment Technologies is seeking a highly competent IT Systems Engineer that is well versed in Microsoft and Linux server administration, VMware virtualization technologies, and Storage (SAN) technologies. This is a multifaceted position ranging from assisting the tier 1 support team to solutions design & implementation across a broad spectrum of systems and services. The ideal candidate will be experienced in a multitude of IT systems or seeking a position that actively promotes the expansion of their existing skill set. Sterling is growing and the candidate must be able to thrive in a dynamic environment; handling multiple projects, trouble tickets, incident response, and the shifting of work priorities.

• Maintain accurate documentation and diagrams.

• Follow policies and procedures and provide input to improve them where necessary.

• Complete corporate and departmental projects as assigned by management.

• Apply engineering level knowledge and experience to provide solutions to business challenges.

• Drive new and innovative approaches to solve problems or enhance existing systems. Identify, evaluate, and integrate new technologies.

• Perform problem & systems analysis and provide engineering recommendations for peer review.

• Perform in-depth troubleshooting across multiple platforms to resolve complex technical issues.

• Provide systems engineering support for customer-facing services and applications.

• Administrate and apply engineering solutions to system security platforms/applications to include: system firewalls, Host IPS, web application firewalls, database activity firewalls, Active Directory, system monitoring and log management solutions.

• Administrate and apply engineering solutions to Linux server systems based on the Ubuntu distribution.

• Administrate and apply engineering solutions to VMware virtualization infrastructure.

• Administrate and apply engineering solutions to storage technologies.

• Administrate and apply engineering solutions to the backup and replication technologies.

• Administrate and apply engineering solutions to the system and application monitoring technologies.

• Perform system and application patching in accordance to compliance mandates.

• Knowledge of and ability to write scripts across several scripting languages including PowerShell and BASH.

• Able to read and understand programs in major programming language(s) and markup languages; ability to modify and create is a plus.

• Mentor and function as a technical expert to others in the department.

• All applicants must pass drug screen, background check, and credit evaluation for consideration.

• High School diploma required.

• 5 or more years of relevant IT engineering experience in an enterprise environment required.

• Demonstrable experience engineering enterprise server architectures required (Microsoft and Ubuntu Linux).

• Demonstrable experience engineering enterprise storage architectures required (Fiberchannel SAN, RAID design).

• Demonstrable experience engineering enterprise virtualization systems required (VMware).

• Demonstrable experience engineering server/application/AD security solutions required.

• Demonstrable experience engineering enterprise networking technologies (Firewalls, routing, IP addressing)

• Working knowledge of programming/scripting languages required (Java, PHP, PowerShell, BASH, Python)

• Engineering solutions for Apache, Tomcat, and IIS configurations highly preferred.

• Deployment and configuration of system and application monitoring solutions preferred.

• Experience with Imperva Web Application and Database Firewall platforms a plus.

• Experience with MS SQL and MySQL databases a plus.

• Experience with Solaris a plus.