Systems Analyst 1671

Austin, TX Systems Analyst – Solicitation #529601671 Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) Location: Austin, TX. Remote option: 3 days remote, with 2 days onsite (Mondays and Thursdays). Local candidates only.

Responsibilities Plan and accomplish goals using experience and judgment, independently performing complicated tasks with creativity and latitude. Understands business objectives and problems, identifies alternative solutions, performs studies and cost/benefit analysis. Analyze user requirements, procedures and problems to automate processing or improve existing computer systems.

Confers with personnel, identifying problems, learning input/output requirements, and summarizing requirements. Write detailed descriptions of user needs, program functions and development steps for new or modified programs. Review computer system capabilities, specifications, and scheduling limitations to determine feasibility within existing systems.

Ensure reliability, availability, performance, and scalability of production systems using software engineering practices. Partner with development teams to build resilient, observable, and automated platforms that meet defined service level objectives (SLOs). Minimum Qualifications 8+ years experience in systems engineering, DevOps, or site reliability engineering roles.

Strong experience with Linux/Unix systems and system internals. Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python, Go, Java, Bash). Experience designing and operating highly available, distributed systems.

Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) and cloud-native services. Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). Strong understanding of monitoring, alerting, and logging concepts.

Experience defining and managing SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. Familiarity with incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortems. Experience integrating security and compliance into operational workflows.

Preferred: familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk). Preferred: experience operating 24x7 production environments with on-call rotations. Preferred: experience with chaos engineering and resiliency testing.

Preferred: experience with feature flags, canary deployments, and progressive delivery. Preferred: strong documentation skills for runbooks, dashboards, and operational standards. #J-18808-Ljbffr