Senior System Engineer
First seen by Alion on Aug 19, 2026.
Leading technology / fintech platform is seeking a Systems Engineer to own enterprise infrastructure across messaging, caching, and traffic management platforms.
The role focuses on reliability, scalability, availability, performance, and operational resilience of mission-critical infrastructure.
The candidate will work across distributed systems, Linux environments, automation, monitoring, and production infrastructure.
The role involves close collaboration with development, DevOps, networking, and security teams.
Key Responsibilities :
- Design, deploy, maintain, and support highly available messaging, caching, and traffic management infrastructure.
- Own system performance, capacity, availability, monitoring, and operational health.
- Manage upgrades, patching, configuration, clustering, replication, failover, and disaster recovery.
- Troubleshoot production issues involving message delivery, latency, connectivity, throughput, and service resiliency.
- Develop automation and operational tooling using scripting and infrastructure automation practices.
- Drive incident response, root-cause analysis, observability, and continuous improvement of infrastructure reliability.
Ideal Candidate Profile :
- 5 - 10 years of experience in systems engineering, infrastructure operations, platform engineering, or related roles.
- Strong experience with distributed infrastructure, messaging or middleware, caching, and traffic management platforms.
- Strong Linux or Unix administration and scripting skills.
- Good understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing, and high-availability concepts.
- Exposure to cloud, virtualization, containers, infrastructure-as-code, or continuous integration and continuous delivery environments is preferred.
- Willingness to work onsite from Bengaluru.
Skills
Advanced Traffic Management System, IT Disaster Recovery, Linux, Unix, Scripting, TCP/IP, Virtualization, DNS, Middleware, System Administration