Systems Engineer
Who We Are
At SecureLink, we take our job seriously, but ourselves, not so much. We aren't afraid of a challenge and understand the autonomous and team effort required to accomplish something great! Founded in 2003, and headquartered in Austin, Texas, SecureLink provides market-leading security, privacy and compliance solutions, securing third party remote access for highly regulated enterprises and technology vendors, as well as insider access with innovative machine learning and audit of access to the most mission critical and sensitive systems of more than 30,000 organizations worldwide across multiple industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, government, legal and gaming.
Our Vision
We believe diversity drives better outcomes. We want you to be you. SecureLink is a place where your ideas and performance matter. Different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better results.
Choose Where You Work
At SecureLink, we believe trust is an essential ingredient for building productivity in the workplace. We want to ensure all our employees feel both safe and productive. Our employees have the option to work 100% remotely, 50% remotely, or 100% from our physical offices located in Austin, TX, and Nashville, TN.
Remote work can currently be supported for employees residing in the following locations: AR, CA, CO, FL, ID, IL, KY, MD, MI, MN, NY, OH, PA, TX, TN, VA, WA.
What You'll Do
We are looking for a Systems Engineer to help create and maintain the modern, scalable, secure, performant internal computing infrastructure for SecureLink that enables and optimizes business operations. As a member of the Information Security team, our Systems Engineer will uphold a pro-active security stance for both corporate and product technology. Responsible for the maintenance of the corporate computing environment and end-user support. Day-to-day responsibilities include:
- Preserve security awareness and baselines in both customer and corporate systems as well as prioritizing needed security actions
- Maintain the operational state of the corporate computing environment, including owning deliverables for moves, changes, and additions across the company
- Work with the Systems Engineering Manager and company stakeholders to spec, design, and build new technology capabilities that support the business and its operations
- Ensure critical systems infrastructure is flexible, secure, modern, and available in particular, the SecureLink private cloud and its services
What You'll Need
- 2+ years experience in a systems engineering, systems administration or software development role with distributed heterogeneous systems
- Problem severity discernment
- Self-motivated with a fundamental drive for learning and self-improvement
- Information security best practices and systematic troubleshooting methodologies
- Advanced understanding of MacOS, Linux and Windows administration, in particular, Enterprise Linux systems based on RedHat/CentOS
- Concrete understanding of software architecture models, such as n-tier applications
- Linux systems programming, in particular, bash and Python
- Advanced knowledge computing principles including new virtualization and clustering technologies such as pacemaker, corosync, DBRD, KVM
- Advanced knowledge networking principles including TCP/IP protocol and services
- Concrete competency with SQL and in particular PostgreSQL
- Understanding and basic competency for standard and next-gen open source firewalling and security services, in particular, IPTables, Snort/Suricata, ModSecurity, fail2ban
- Understanding and knowledge in dealing with complex infrastructures based on cloud technologies like Openstack/Ceph, AWS, Azure
- Knowledge and competency with Security tools such as BURP suite, Netsparker, Nessus, Nexpose, etc.
- Understanding and competency with network monitoring and visibility services such as ELK stack and Zabbix
- Knowledge and competency with orchestration and automation frameworks like Ansible
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Time and priority management
Why Choose Us
SecureLink doesn't just Have Fun Creating Value Over the Long Run (HFCV/LR) for our customers and shareholders, we Have Fun Creating Value in the lives and careers of our employees. SecureLink invests in employee development including extensive job and product training, access to LinkedIn Learning, monthly knowledge sharing sessions, career pathing, professional development, and more. Benefits also include:
Medical, dental, and vision insurance - SecureLink pays 100% of the premium for employees and 75% for dependents!
We contribute to your HSA ($2,700 for employee coverage or $5,400 for family coverage).
We help you save for retirement. We contribute equivalent to 3% of your annual base salary to a 401k.
Employees enjoy unlimited PTO, including the time to volunteer.
We give $100 per month towards cell phone reimbursement.
At the office, employee perks include two meals a day, bringing your dog to work, and an onsite gym.
What Else?
Happy and successful SecureLink employees embrace the company's mission. Great employees have three attributes that make them "slinky". These are 1) excellence at their position, 2) eagerness to grow and improve and 3) a true sense of responsibility to contribute to the company, customers, and culture.
If you are just looking for another job, this is not the place for you. We like to laugh and be around happy, smart, interesting, self-motivated, and "slinky" people. Slackers, grumps, and pessimists need not apply.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
