THE POSITION:
Seeking a seasoned Systems Engineer with deep technical skillset supporting on-premise infrastructure technologies along with the vision to chart a course toward public cloud solutions. As a key member of the DevOps team, you will maintain system uptime, stability, performance, and security to ensure the highest customer service levels. You will leverage your people skills as you develop and implement agile solutions that scale with the business and involve close collaboration across IT, application development and business stakeholders.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Support a large on-premise VMware virtual Windows Server environment and drive a forward Public Cloud presence
- Ensure High Availability leveraging Windows Clustering technology
- Highly resilient backup and recovery system (VMware SRM and Veeam) including regular testing of disaster recovery procedure
- Maintain subset of physical business critical Windows servers (Dell)
- Administer Active Directory and Group Policies
- Manage HP Nimble storage arrays to ensure optimal storage solutions across the business
- Oversee server/storage technology in two Data Centers and a third office location
- Enhance enterprise monitoring across on-prem and cloud to facilitate a cohesive proactive posture
- Define, document and implement policies and procedures for monitoring, backups, security, DR and capacity planning
- Adept at problem solving complex problems; troubleshooting
- Maintain non-prod environments to support efficient application development lifecycles (ie. SDLC)
- Bring a passion to stay current on industry trends, architect future infrastructure solutions and make forward looking software/hardware purchase recommendations
- Adhere closely to change control and related ITIL practices
- Collaborate closely with the Security and Network teams to safeguard infrastructure systems
- Adept at communicating technical information to stakeholders across the organization
- Participate on occasional on-call.
- Work in a highly collaborative software development environment that is primarily onsite
ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Participate in public cloud design guidance/implementation to support growing business demands
- Manage Exchange and Office365 messaging systems
- Develop scripts (ie. Powershell) to automate manual functions
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science or commensurate experience
- 6+ years' experience administering Windows Server and AD environments
- 4+ years' experience supporting enterprise storage arrays
- 4+ years' experience supporting VMware
- 2+ years' experience developing and integrating hybrid cloud IT systems
DESIRED SKILLS:
- VMware VCP-DCV Certification (6.7 or above)
- Familiarity with Azure Cloud and/or Linux
- Microsoft 365 Certified
- HPE Master ASE (storage)
- Familiarity with automating processes using Powershell or similar scripting language
- Experience with Telephony