Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer (Contract – 6 Months)

Bounteous is a premier end-to-end digital transformation consultancy dedicated to partnering with ambitious brands to create digital solutions for today’s complex challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. With uncompromising standards for technical and domain expertise, we deliver innovative and strategic solutions in Strategy, Analytics, Digital Engineering, Cloud, Data & AI, Experience Design, and Marketing.

Our Co-Innovation methodology is a unique engagement model designed to align interests and accelerate value creation. Our clients worldwide benefit from the skills and expertise of over 4,000+ expert team members across the Americas, APAC, and EMEA. By partnering with leading technology providers, we craft transformative digital experiences that enhance customer engagement and drive business success.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to support, operate, secure and continuously improve our Linux and AWS-based infrastructure for a client platform.

This is a hands-on role with a strong focus on Linux systems, automation, security, deployments, incident response and close collaboration with development and client teams.

Information Security Responsibilities

• Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols.
• Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets.
• Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.).
• Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and support primarily Linux-based server and AWS infrastructure, ensuring availability, performance and reliability.
• Monitor systems, respond to alerts and incidents, and participate in a 24×7 on-call rotation.
• Perform security and maintenance activities including patching, upgrades and hardening.
• Develop and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning, deployments and operational tasks.
• Work closely with developers and client teams to troubleshoot issues and support releases.
• Maintain documentation and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

Required / Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (mandatory).
• Strong hands-on experience administering and troubleshooting Linux production environments.
• Strong experience designing, operating and supporting AWS infrastructure.
• Strong troubleshooting and investigation skills, including root-cause analysis.
• Experience supporting Magento platforms running on Apache and PHP.
• Good knowledge and hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience working with GitHub.
• Experience with Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Splunk.
• Experience working with ITSM / ticketing tools such as ServiceNow for incident, change and request management.

Working Style

• Strong communication and coordination skills.
• Able to work independently and handle production issues under pressure.
• Team-oriented and willing to support other team members.
• Willing to participate in on-call rotation and late-night deployments.