Senior Infrastructure Lead/Engineer

Job title: Senior Infrastructure Lead/Engineer

Location: Tampa, FL

Duration: Full time role

Responsibilities:

• Interface with Application Teams, Senior IT Managers, various technology teams and external vendors as required.
• Provide regular updates to all parties
• End to end infrastructure project management of Risk systems as a primary owner.
• Conduct meetings, gather requirements, Prepare compute/storage/network/Memory capacity plans for application infrastructure projects
• Work with internal teams on budget forecast, hardware procurement, installation, built, deploy and production cutover tasks
• Develop strategy for routine OS upgrades and software patch management
• participate in in different type of migration activities. Analyzing Application Impact, strategize, Co-ordinate and execute
• Monitor capacity utilization and help develop strategy for capacity management
• Guide application teams on critical software version upgrades e.g. JDK, security related updates etc.
• Ensure current environments meets/exceed capacity, reliability and performance expectations
• Leverage standard CI/CD tools and process to enhance the automation framework and transform the engineering qualification into continuous integration and Delivery
• Be a part of infrastructure team to ensure reliable operation, be flexible in Shift work on in weekend activities as required.
• Perform post release checkouts after application release and infrastructure updates.
• Develop and maintain technical project documents.
• Analyzes applications to identify risks, vulnerabilities and security issues. Identifying analyzing and remediating reported VA issues by coordinating with different teams
• Build, test and maintaining the infrastructure and tools to provide reliable, fast development and release of mechanism.
• Provide guidance for building automation tools to proactively detect problems
• Participate in architecture and software development activities.
• Take initiative to learn new skills required for future Projects.
• Mentor other team members as required

Requirements:

• 6 years of experience in enterprise data center and Linux server environment
• Excellent oral and written communication is a must.
• Solid project management skills are a must
• Hands-on experience in Linux server environment is a must
• Hands-on working experience in Linux environment, familiarity with Linux command is a must
• Knowledge on foundation infrastructure services (Compute, Storage, Network and Database) is a must
• Knowledge of Linux Cluster such as Veritas Cluster is a Must.
• Solid experience in Production datacenter environment and Linux server configuration and OS upgrades is a must
• Deep understanding of enterprise class server/data back-up, offsite back-up and understanding of restore operations is a must
• Prior experience in planning, design, implementation of primary and disaster recovery operations and associated principal is a must
• Prior experience in new server build, server migration, data center migration and storage implementation/migration is a must
• Prior experience in requirement analysis, capacity planning, server build/installation, product cutover experience is a must
• Basic understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) is a must
• Basic Linus shell scripting knowledge is a must, Python scripting is a plus
• Experience in monitoring Automation & Automated workflow is a plus
• Basic understanding of CI/CD tools such as ServiceNow, Git, Jira, Jenkins and deployment tools is required. In Depth hands-on experience is a plus
• Familiarity with Cloud environment is a plus
• Familiarity with container orchestration services like Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift is a plus
• Experience in in supporting WebSphere/TOMCAT/Apache based MW technologies is a plus