Infrastructure Engineer

Purpose

The Infrastructure Engineer performs a critical role in defining and implementing cloud-based solutions and strategies. This role is responsible for leading complex efforts, mentoring others and leading level-3 support. This individual is a highly effective and experienced with various development tools, IT infrastructure components and has proven experience designing, developing, implementing technology solutions using Agile methodologies. The candidate will be supporting Infrastructure and Operations services, with a focus on cloud technologies.

• Work with business and technology partners to understand needs from the client perspective
• Drive technology discussions and facilitate decision with other teams within the organization
• Collaborate cross-functionally to develop our target state cloud platform and infrastructure
• Gather technical requirements, assess capabilities, and analyze findings to provide appropriate cloud platform solution recommendations and adoption strategy
• Design, build, and deploy efficient solutions that improve efficiencies and add value to the business
• Develop creative and efficient solutions for migration to cloud environments
• Design and build technology solutions, including the process, integrations, and automation
• Automate testing and execution of playbook actions
• Identify and execute on opportunities to automate and simplify lifecycle management
• Implement best-practice standards that will be leveraged by business units to streamline and simplify cloud platform operations
• Operate and maintain cloud-based solutions to ensure high performance and reliability
• Define and govern operational processes, guidelines, and standards that facilitate robust, scalable, cost-effective, and innovative services
• Manage risk identification within the technical architecture in partnership with security teams
• Ensure alerts and events are flowing across various cloud-based services and partners
• Normal business hours and some after-hours/on-call responsibilities
• Support projects and initiatives to deliver on strategic goals, including building automation to improve efficiencies
• Work closely with agile teams to prioritize the implementation of user stories while balancing priorities, ensuring continuous delivery or business value
• Track time and complete assignments on schedule
• Build, maintain, and promote strong technical documentation
• Mentor and cross-train team members
• Keep abreast of and gain expertise in the evolving technology and understand how new technologies could be applied to our Cloud platform offerings
• Develop and maintain an operational dashboard to track and report on the health of IT systems, including alignment or impact to business services
• Executes POCs and feasibility studies to validate next-gen product concepts, technologies, and services leveraging results to guide business and technology decisions
• Research, test, and understand the relevant products and product capability
• Participate in the vendor community on relevant products and product capability

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, or related field, OR at least 3+ years of applicable experience
• Experience with Windows Server and/or Linux distributions, Windows Server 2012 or above, Linux distributions (Red Hat-based or Debian-based)
• Experience developing infrastructure as code and with a least a couple of the following tools:
  • Power Shell
  • JSON
  • Python
  • Azure CLI
  • AWS CLI
  • Terraform
  • PowerCLI
  • Java script
  • OAuth, webhooks, and REST API
• A solid understanding of SNMP, Syslog, RMON, and other messaging and agent facilities
• Experience supporting cloud-native applications in an agile manner using Dev Ops concepts and principles
• Distributed systems design experience and integrating multiple systems using enterprise integration patterns and standard methodologies.
• Proficiency in implementing Group Policy
• Experience maintaining Active Directory
• Basic networking skills used in troubleshooting client issues

• Ability to travel up to ~10% of the time, which may include weekends and evenings, as needed
• Most work is performed in a temperature-controlled environment
• Incumbent may sit for long periods of time at a desk or…