Senior Infrastructure Engineer (5-7 Years) - Dallas

Texas  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Job #5147

Senior Infrastructure Engineer (5-7 Years) - Dallas

Type of Position: Contract

40 hour work week

Candidate hired will be an Ntelicor W2 employee.

Job Description

Provides technical direction, planning and vision. As a technical leader on new projects, creates, maintains, and owns infrastructure related technical specifications, designs, and schedules with little direction from manager.

  • Must have deep technical knowledge in operating systems, client and/or hosting hardware, Back Office applications, web and application services, network protocols, databases, connectivity services, storage, backup and recovery, and systems management concepts and techniques for vital and critical systems
  • Must possess excellent with hands-on technical troubleshooting skills
  • Experience with full software development life cycle (SDLC/Agile)
  • Demonstrated Agile methodology experience, including technology delivery methods
  • Possess consulting skills, leadership qualities, credibility, and self-confidence
  • Provide technical leadership for supporting Unix and Virtualization platform across distributed environments
  • Establish recommendations and guidelines for the development, test, operations and application support & development lab environments
  • Provide information needed to assess the risk of production deployment of critical & vital applications
  • Experience with installation and configuration readiness, performance and scalability evaluation, stability and durability evaluation, and best practices procedures
  • Assist in determining overall hardware and software configuration along with capacity projections and planning for future support of growing operations
  • In-depth understanding of compute technologies, environments, and data centers and their engineering integration into mission critical system designs
  • Understanding of current technologies in relevant areas of expertise
  • Explores and stays abreast of new technologies that can bring value to the organization
  • Speaks clearly and persuasively in all situations
  • Excellent verbal and written communication
  • Encourages an environment of sharing and team work among the team

Qualifications


Technical Expertise:

  • Strong ability to troubleshoot complex issues and make system changes as needed to resolve issues
  • Expert knowledge of Red Hat Linux
  • Need to have strong knowledge of installing, configuring and maintaining of Linux OS (RPM)
  • Strong understanding of networking is required
  • Experience with external storage (SAN/NAS) is required from server - configuration and administration prospective
  • Shell Scripting & PHP knowledge as Unix Administrator is required
  • Working knowledge of backup and restore of UNIX Servers
  • Knowledge of capacity monitoring and management of a VM environment
  • High Availability concept/knowledge will be a big plus (ie Local Datacenter HA or DR across multiple DC)
  • Expert knowledge of Proxy service, naming services (LDAP, DNS etc.) is needed
  • Any working knowledge of dynaTrace will be highly preferred
  • Understands boot process and run levels, paging and swapping, inter-process communication, functions of devices and device drivers and file system concepts
  • Plan, coordinate, and implement security measures to safeguard information in computer files against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure
  • Experience managing a development lab with off shore developers
  • Hands on experience configuring and maintaining Cisco Switches, Adaptive Security Appliance (Firewall, Router, VPN)
  • Hands on experience with troubleshooting EMC storage and Proxy Servers
  • Have understanding of Java applications, and J2EE framework, Oracle and SQL server
  • Working knowledge of current technologies like DevOps (Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
  • Working knowledge of cloud based solutions working within a MSP environment
  • Virtualization Technologies: SDDC (Software-Defined Data Center) SD Networks, Hypervisors, Containers.
  • Understands emerging technologies - Cloud: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, etc.
  • Working knowledge of f5, MQ or messaging services
  • Forges strong relationships across departments
  • Sets the standard for highest quality of work
  • Mentors others and leads by example
  • Participate in a duty rotation providing 24 x 7 supports of production systems and applications
  • Ability to scrutinize applications and services to ensure they adhere to security standards

Education/Experience

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or relevant field preferred
  • 5 years' experience required

Responsibility level

  • Exercises independent judgment with minimal direction from supervisor
Start date
n.a
From
Ntelicor
Published at
22.06.2017
Project ID:
1365641
Contract type
Freelance
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