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Apple Certified Macintosh Experts
Serving East Tennessee since 1994
 

Career Opportunities

HappyMac is hiring

Title:  Macintosh Systems Engineer

Work Location: Knoxville, Tennessee

Position: Full-time

HappyMac is located in Knoxville, TN in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, offering hiking, biking, lakes, many state parks, downtown life, shopping, a good climate, one of the lowest costs of living in the USA [Forbes], and is home to the University of Tennessee. We respect the need for a balanced life, do not offshore work, and offer a great pay and benefits package including comprehensive health, matching IRA, family health club membership, paid vacation, paid certification, and flexible work hours. Come join a crew of valued professionals.

About Us

HappyMac is a regional leader in providing IT and workflow automation solutions, solving our clients' unique business needs through expert support and custom software. Our success is based on providing outstanding quality and responsive customer service. Our relationship with clients is one of technology partner and advocate, as part of a holistic IT solutions engagement. We are more like consulting engineers, and are not sales people.

HappyMac has provided support for Macintosh and other IT solutions for businesses in Knoxville and surrounding Tennessee areas for 25 years. We build a personal relationships with our clients who value our proactive approach to avoiding technology crises, and work as their advocates to keep their systems humming along. We are systems administrators who focus on building and maintaining reliable systems to increase uptime, and reduce complexity and total cost of ownership.


We provide onsite and remote professional services for small to mid-sized businesses, which include but are not limited to:

  • Apple solutions
  • Servers and storage
  • Networks
  • Phone systems
  • Services provisioning and management
  • Workflow process automation
  • and much more ...

About You

You’re comfortable in the command line and have strong interest in Linux and open source technologies. You’ve taught yourself more than you’ve learned in a classroom and you’ve got a solid understanding of networking and device management.  Most importantly you are well-versed in the technologies above, or feel you can become so.

  • You enjoy helping people
  • You have great verbal and written communication skills
  • You think critically and enjoy knowledge sharing
  • You excel at untangling problems and analyzing causes
  • You can visualize how systems and services integrate
  • You work well as a team member
  • You are comfortable being a change agent when you find processes you can improve
  • You enjoy wearing a lot of different hats and see ignorance as a solvable challenge
  • You don’t panic easily and bring your own Zen to the job

What we’re looking for

Key indicators for an engineer at HappyMac include:

  • Systems analysis and troubleshooting skills
  • Broad and deep technical experience
  • Deep knowledge of OSX, and OSX Server and underlying technologies (Postfix, Dovecot, Apache, OpenSSL, OpenLDAP, Active Directory)
  • UNIX/LINUX system administration experience
  • Network design, setup, maintenance abilities (VPN, firewall, NAT, DHCP, RADIUS, router, switch, wireless, packet analysis, wiring, etc)
  • Experience with VOIP solutions such as Asterisk, Switchvox
  • Experience with virtualization, highly available systems
  • Experience with MDM and device deployment
  • Component-level hardware troubleshooting, replacement
  • Apple and other technical certifications

This is a full-time, direct-hire position based in Knoxville, TN, so no third-party applicants will be considered.

To apply, email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your resume and cover letter.

Thanks for considering becoming part of our company.