A Systems Engineer plans, designs, develops and deploys platform technologies. They define technology choices, deployment options, and migration strategies. Systems Engineers define and design high availability and business continuity architecture. Systems Engineers perform sizing and performance analysis, optimization, capacity planning and configuration, systems administration, upgrades, etc. A Systems Engineer is broadly aligned with the Platform Development sub-practice.
Systems Engineers may be specialists (e.g.: Cloud Architects, Teradata DBAs, Hadoop Administrators, Performance Analysts), but will be encouraged to develop into "T-shaped" professionals as part of their professional development. Systems Engineers manage use of platform services like Hadoop and Kubernetes, mostly deployed on Linux. Principal Systems Engineers may function as Tech Leads.
Test the developed system (smoke test, system integration test, performance test).
Deploy systems in cloud, on premises or in hybrid environment.
Support and maintain the deployed solution.
Establish and maintain a configuration management solution.
Establish and maintain Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines.
Experience with test automation in any language.