Senior System Engineer

Viennalife Emeklilik ve Hayat A.Ş. - Senior System Engineer

This role primarily required to perform IT System design and management activities to deliver and maintain our infrastructure in our Digital Transformation journey. This person will be responsible for the infrastructure operations and driving enterprise technology strategy and policy across the organization.

Job Description

• Responsible for working with business to determine overall system and application requirements. Using technical and analytical expertise, develops recommendations for system designs and prepares detailed specifications
• Develop and maintain the governance framework to manage the outsourced services and vendors.
• Develop and maintain relationships with third parties, including contractors, vendors and potential vendors to identify and exploit opportunities to drive better value for the business.
• Maintain the risk register, ensure that it is updated and reviewed regularly and that action plans to resolve key risks are driven through
• Develop and maintain the business continuity plans, ensuring that they are updated and tested annually at all levels
• Oversees the implementation of system and data security, manage and establish policies for security and patch management
• Research and evaluate new technologies
• Track and maintain software licensing and hardware inventory information
• Create and maintain technical documentation
• Anticipates future network needs, identifies proactive solutions to satisfy needs, holds responsibility for capacity planning
• Sets annual targets related to IT operations and monitor the overall performance
• Communicate with the vendors to establish service levels and ensure that they are met
• Ensure the designs, solutions and systems comply with the Aegon Global Standards and Blueprints

• At least 5 years’ experience on a similar role in IT
• Strong Linux system administration background
• Microsoft Windows Server administration specifically Active Directory, Exchange Server and IIS knowledge
• Demonstrate experience with capacity planning, availability and system management tools
• System automation experience regarding deployment and configuration management
• Manage multiple projects at any given time with a great attitude
• Maintain a high customer service level through assisting developers and technical leadership with systems, software applications, and other technical-related issues
• Experience in developing solution architecture guidelines, policies and processes
• Knowledgeable of DevOps CI/CD processes and tools
• Experience in supporting private or public cloud infrastructures along with virtualized systems
• Hands-on experience with the following systems: Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, Linux, Nginx, Docker
• Knowledgeable of VMWare, Network, AWS and other Cloud Services
• Experience in ISO27001, ITIL and Cobit will be plus