Duties:
· Provides expert content/professional leadership on complex Infrastructure assignments/projects.
· Serves as a technical consultant responsible for the design, engineering, and development of information technology solutions.
· Supports the design, analysis, development, and implementation of engineering infrastructure solutions of projects and/or work requests for complex business solutions.
· Troubleshoots and proceeds on resolving infrastructure compatibility issues based on system architecture, project requirements, customer expectations, etc.
· May be involved in the creation of design specifications and the development and application of utility programs and may resolve infrastructure compatibility problems as they arise.
· Responsibilities may include risk assessments, partnering on capacity planning, budget forecasting, and the diagnosis and correction of application/network problems.
· May serve as the primary contact for vendors.
· Technologies span mainframe, midrange, desktop, server, network data, voice, messaging, web, database, and output/receiving.
· Exercises considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and delivering initiatives.
· Uses deep professional knowledge and acumen to advise functional leaders.
· Focuses on providing thought leadership within Infrastructure Engineering but works on broader projects, which require an understanding of wider business.
Skills:
· Experience with VMWare technologies
· Experience with backup and disaster recovery concepts and technologies
· Zerto experience is a plus.
· Leverage existing infrastructure designs to further improve capacity forecasting, lifecycle management, and disaster recovery solutions for the enterprise.
· Hardware implementation and management experience.
· Coordinate and facilitate meetings with application and system teams to determine dependency management, visualization, and improved operations.
· Capture, document, analyze, and comprehend requirements.
· Design, document, develop, deploy, maintain, and operate capabilities within modeling systems, data analysis tools, data staging systems and visualization systems.
· Responsibilities may include risk assessments, partnering on capacity planning, budget forecasting, and the diagnosis and correction of application/network problems.
· Design, document, develop, deploy, maintain, and operate bi-directional integration with corporate systems.
· Administer and support tooling and associated methods to support Ecosystem Mapping processes and procedures.
Education:
· Bachelor's degree preferred or related field or 10+ years of experience.
· Advanced VMware software suite experience; 3+ years of experience preferred.
· Working experience with PowerShell, PowerCLI, and Ansible
· Advanced problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively with other departments to resolve complex issues with innovative solutions.
· Excellent oral and written communication skills.
· Demonstrated ability to prioritize workload and meet project deadlines.
· Analytical, excellent communication, quick learner, self-starter.
· Ability to adapt to a dynamic work environment and make independent decisions.
· Strong customer service focus.
· Ability to contribute ideas to extend and enhance methodology in a synergistic manner.
· Working knowledge of networking: TCP/IP, and familiarity with firewalls, hubs, routers, switches, DNS, gateways, load balancing and basic network analysis/troubleshooting
· Willingness to work a flexible schedule to accommodate project deadlines and after-hours support.