Sr Engineer IT Infrastructure: Req#

Type:

Contract

Type Details:

W2

Complete Description:

Why you'll love this job:

This job is a member of the Information Technology Team within the Information Technology Division.

Responsible for both traditional and cloud-based infrastructure implementations based on designs from infrastructure architects.

What you'll do

Provides good understanding of concepts related to server load balancing, WAS clustering, and other application scaling concepts.

Troubleshoots and resolves middleware issues across development, testing, and production environments.

Recommend and implement system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the systems including installing, upgrading/patching, monitoring, problem resolution, and configuration management.

Encourages an environment of sharing and teamwork among the team.

Stays current with systems technology best practices and changing technologies, in order to maintain domain expertise and recommend enhancements or changes.

Supports communication and response process by responding to users on system issues, maintenance, and system status, and advising and escalating on any prolonged or major issues.

Travels, as required.

Mandatory rotational schedule for on-call off-hours support

All you'll need for success.

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training.

3 years of experience as a network or infrastructure engineer or administrator

3 years LINUX (RHEL8) experience, IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server, IBM Cognos and IBM Cloud or MS Azure

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience:

Master’s degree in computer science computer engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training

5 years of experience as a network or infrastructure engineer or administrator

Skills, Licenses & Certifications:

Advanced ability to plan strategically for current and future business environments, including future technology and business design changes to create flexible, scalable solutions

In-depth knowledge of IT business operations, systems requirements, and processes

Ability to analyze complex problems and implement solutions and/or workarounds

Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously with a keen desire to learn and expand depth of knowledge

Ability to thrive in a sense-of-urgency environment and leverage best practices

Demonstrated initiative, flexibility, and ability to adapt to changing priorities and work environments

Proficiency in Agile project management methodology, specifically within infrastructure area

Knowledge and hands on experience with FTP and secure FTP

Experience in working with IBM WebSphere/Tomcat/IBM Http Server and IBM Cognos Reporting Server

Knowledge and understanding on SSL certificates, PGP encryption and NAS storages

Knowledge and support of Dynatrace and Splunk tools installations

Knowledge and work experience on various components like Kubernetes, VPC, subnets, CI/CD in IBM Cloud/MS Azure

Shell and Perl scripting capability knowledge in respect to setting up monitoring and alerting for Unix/Linux systems.

Permanent