Job Description :
This positions needs candidates who can do an onsite interview so
candidates local to Dallas/Texas apply pls.

Seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer for a 6 month contract located in
Fort Worth, TX.

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 (i.e. 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
             

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