Infrastructure Solution Specialist

Description

At CI, we see a great place to work as one that is a safe place for everyone to have a voice, where people are empowered to take ownership over meaningful work, where there is an opportunity to grow through stretching themselves, where they can work on innovative products and projects, and where employees are supported and engaged in doing so.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our Windows Infrastructure team as an IT Infrastructure Solutions Specialist. The successful candidate will be required to collaborate with peers, support teams and partners to support development of solutions, provide technical support, work in a creative, fast-paced agile environment, and show a keen interest in solving highly complex technical problems.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Provide day-to-day operational and emergency support of core infrastructure systems running on Windows OS (On-Prem, Cloud and Hybrid)

• Experience in deploying Windows EC2 on AWS cloud using infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation)

• Experience in Windows Cloud Operations (EC2) like patching, monitoring using cloud watch, AWS secrets management

• Good working exposure towards file storage services on AWS EBS, EFS, FSX, S3

• Ability to troubleshoot Windows related technical issues

• Working experience in configuring and using monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Data Dog, Cloud Watch etc.

• Configuring and maintaining backup using Veeam backup software

• Configuration, Administration of Hypervisors like VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V

• Implement hybrid infrastructure systems that are scalable, stable and efficient

• Monitor system and Identify patterns that affect the performance, reliability, or availability of a system or service and drive them out of the system through automation or other technical innovations

• Implement automation of recurrent tasks through scripting where possible.

• Maintain documentation regarding configurations, operations and troubleshooting procedures for both internal and customer-facing systems

• Participate in post-mortem and root cause analysis

• Participate in evaluation new requirements; technical designs, the definition of standards, guidelines, best practices and metrics as directed

• Responsible for incident, problem, change and configuration management processes for the infrastructure platforms, including license management

• Ensure operational stability by maintaining security patching and vulnerability remediation on a regularly scheduled basis

• Manage and maintain internal server image libraries and associated toolsets

• Provide solution and system architecture support for new products and services

• Participate in on-call rotation and off-hours support activities

WHAT YOU WILL BRING

• 5+ years of expertise in many technical areas such as:

• Technical understanding of Microsoft Server based Operating Systems focused on Windows Server 2016 / 2019 & 2022

• VMWare administration and/or any other Hypervisor administration

• Public/Private Cloud and Virtualization

• Experience of both Design and Operational aspects with large scale and complicated Active Directory deployments and related infrastructure components such as DNS, DHCP, AD Sites & Services, GPO’s)

• Powershell scripting and automation skills to at least intermediate level of knowledge focused on automation in the Windows Infrastructure

• Ability to write technical and operational management documentation (system design and engineering documents, operational run books, high level design through to build and implementation)

• Up to date knowledge of Windows security and auditing from both Microsoft and Industry best practice

• Full Stack Monitoring tools (ie: SCOM, Dynatrace)

• Veeam backup

• Service Now

• AWS Cloud Resources (OU, VPC, S3, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, EMR, Lambda, API Gateway, Data Lake etc.)

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation)

• CI/CD (Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Check Marx, JFrog Artifactory)

• JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo

• Cloudflare

• PHP, Node.js, React.js, Python

Education/Training

• University Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

• Relevant Technical Certifications

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