Cloud Infrastructure Engineer; Hybrid

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Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Hybrid) | Newark, NJ | 6‑month contract | iLinc Web Cam interview only

This position requires comprehensive knowledge within a functional area. Work is performed under general direction and is reviewed upon completion for adequacy in meeting objectives and to ensure compliance with processes, standards and policies of the organization. Provides technical solutions to a wide range of difficult and complex problems. Solutions are imaginative, thorough, practical, and consistent with the objective of the organization.

May train and mentor less experienced professionals.

• Serve as a primary resource for the design, administration, and monitoring of our physical and cloud‑based infrastructure systems and technologies.
• Maintain understanding of future direction of technologies and products for application or IT systems supported.
• Analyze, administer, modify, configure, and lead patch management for multiple, complex, and advanced operating systems.
• Design, implement, and provide real‑time support and updates for servers and datacenters.
• Plan or support all phases of moderately complex projects.
• Implement consistent project management processes and standards for area of specialization.
• Provide project cost estimates for consideration in functional budget.
• Provide input to planning groups on the impact of prospective upgrades and work effort required.
• Perform impact analysis of new or expanding systems and coordinate with personnel to determine upgrades necessary to meet service level requirements.
• Ensure a high degree of accuracy, coordination and administration of respective data centers, systems and applications.
• Assist in coordination, and monitoring of systems and system software for problems or needed modifications.
• Install and upgrade application & infrastructure systems (i.e., operating systems, storage systems, data center hardware) independently.
• Maintain systems including installation of patches, performance monitoring, capacity planning, and tuning.
• Establish, test, and implement procedures for application or data backup and recovery.
• Develop, test, implement, and maintain disaster recovery infrastructure, plans and procedures.
• Provide direction to less experienced administrators or technicians on department processes and complex technical issues.
• Provide 24×7 coverage via an on‑call rotation.

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline. In lieu of a degree, an additional three (3) years of directly related experience will be considered. Minimum of five (5) years of directly related experience.

• Experience planning and executing migration of on‑premises to cloud‑based server environments.
• Azure certifications.
• AWS certification.
• Microsoft certifications.
• Project management experience.

• Comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft Server technologies 2016, 2019, 2022 including installation, support and management.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Linux server environments and OS installation & management.
• Comprehensive knowledge of on‑prem, private cloud and public cloud solutions.
• Comprehensive experience with Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office 365, Windows Servers, Linux Servers, AWS Sys Ops, VMware vSphere (ESXi)/NSX, Dell Hardware, Rubrik, Solarwinds monitoring, Azure, AWS, and other cloud‑based computing.
• Comprehensive knowledge of networking: TCP/IP, DNS and DHCP.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Dev Ops toolsets such as Git Hub, Terraform and Ansible.
• Strong analytical skills and experience; ability to recognize, analyze and solve complex problems.
• Ability to coordinate third‑party work to ensure effective and timely integration solutions.
• Ability to apply logical thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw conclusions.
• Ability to distill data and analysis into high‑level reports and summaries.
• Ability to develop system solutions for operational problems.
• Ability to write technical instructions.
• Ability to plan, implement, test, and troubleshoot system…