Sr. Infrastructure Solution Engineer

JOB INFORMATION

KEY JOB FUNCTIONS
- Produce detailed documentation describing the solution design, including the technical implementation details, and cost estimates.
- Ensure adherence to current standards by collaborating with Enterprise Architect group and platform engineers
- Ensure justification is sufficient to pass internal governance.
- Document the details in a set of work orders to enable the solution to be built correctly the first time by fulfillment team
- Perform or assist in performing environment analyses where there have been issues with performance or availability.
- Create and optimize weekly and monthly metrics for the team.
- Interface, partner, and influence stakeholders to promote simplification, standardization and innovation and to ensure risk are understood and minimized
- Establish policies and standard operating procedures to enable consistent and repeatable execution
- Propose appropriate changes to standards, policies, and procedure based on emerging business/technology trends and operational challenges with the existing guidelines utilizing performance metric and operational SLA
- Plan for adequate capability on systems based on utilization metrics and planned projects to establish supply and demand forecasts
- Design and verify the technology solution meets business and technical requirements and is in compliance with enterprise architecture guidelines, technology standards and methodology, and compliance and security standards
- Provide work guidance or technical assistance to less senior engineers

**Qualifications**:
EDUCATION
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent required

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE
- 6+ years of related experience
- 6-10+ years of server support, engineering, or solution design experience

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

The team acts as an authoritative infrastructure system design group and covers 4 main areas:

- Supporting the Application Development book of work
- Each team member has a high level of key technology solutions in Unix, Windows, VMware, Database, Middleware, Network, Database, Storage and/or Data center process and procedures in general.
- Thorough knowledge of operating systems, cloud technology, clustering, database, and other associated enterprise technologies.
- Solid understanding of Infrastructure architect in high availability, scalability, resiliency and disaster recovery solution designs
- Experience with hardware server technologies, Cross-platform operating system experience is highly desirable.
- Thorough knowledge of virtualization technologies particularly VMWare ESX server.
- Good understanding of network topology, DMZ solutions.
- Understanding of SAN technologies and storage replication is a plus
- Understanding of networking principles including routing, and basic protocols including multicast.

EMPLOYMENT

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