Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Infrastructure Engineer-(VRS-0924-02)

Location: Daily commutable distance to Richmond

Onsite 3 days/week plus critical meeting attendance

/ USC

Job Description:

Senior Infrastructure Engineer who will be responsible for recommending and implementing enterprise standards and industry best practices in a Nutanix virtual environment and Azure . This role will work closely with other Infrastructure Engineers, Senior Infrastructure Engineer who will be responsible for recommending and implementing enterprise standards and industry best practices in a Nutanix virtual environment . This role will work closely with other Infrastructure Engineers, IT and Security personnel to troubleshoot and maintain infrastructure assets and will participate and contribute to technology evaluations and roadmap discussion with third-party vendors. The Senior Infrastructure Engineer is expected to be a self-starter who is comfortable prioritizing and effectively managing their daily workload and will assist in designing, implementing, and supporting Infrastructure and Network with a security and operational mindset. This role requires the ability to analyze, troubleshoot and resolve highly complex issues within infrastructure and network.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Recommending, designing, and implementing new technologies to support business initiatives

Partnering with Security organization to remediate any vulnerabilities and ensure all assets are secure

Monitoring and maintaining virtual environments to contain 400 Windows and Red Hat virtual machines across Nutanix Acropolis

Mentoring junior engineers

Provide day to day operational support for Arista LAN and Wi-Fi infrastructure

Continuously improving processes and documentation for Infrastructure assets

Expert level experience in routing & switching, Wi-Fi and network packet brokers to design, implement, and support our datacenter and campus networks.

Supporting VRS business services by completing requests and resolving incidents in documented SLA timings; as well as following all change management processes

Tranlsate complex business requirements and objectives into leaf-spine network solutions

Ensuring security solutions, policies, and procedures are sufficient to meet and respond to threats to our data and endpoint infrastructure

Assisting in streamlining project requirements, create test and implementation plans, as well as identifying potential gaps to ensure successful project delivery

Develop and maintain a network infrastructure monitoring and alerting strategy

Identifying automation opportunities within daily tasks and leveraging PowerShell or other scripting languages to automate repeatable tasks

Balancing operational and project related activities, ensuring both are delivered correctly and timely

Providing delivery of service requests through a ITIL based Service Management process

Recommending and providing technical support processes, metrics, and SLAs

After hours and weekend work may be required as situations arise.

Other duties as assigned

Required Skills and Experience:

Knowledge of system administration processes and best practices

Ability to learn new technologies and assist others in learning new technologies

Strong experience with network technologies such as Ethernet, VLANs, VxLAN, VPN, IP Routing, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, IPsec, MACsec, Multicast, QoS, Wi-Fi, VoIP, and 802.1X

Expert knowledge within Active Directory and Group Policy

Strong experience with Microsoft DNS, DHCP and Client

Experience with Arista (preferably) or other commercial Wi-Fi platform

Extensive experience with data-center management, system security, and Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure

Excellent customer service and verbal communication skills

Excellent written skills and desire to document network infrastructures

Experience with working in an ITIL or similar service operational environment

Must Haves:

1) Sr. Generalist who has experience in infrastructure, networking, data-center management, system security

2) Strong exp with network technologies such as ethernet, VLANs, VxLAN, VPN, IP Routing, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, IPsec, MACsec, Multicast, Qos, Wi-Fi, VOIP and 802.1X

3) Expert AD and Group Policy

4) Microsoft DNS, DHCP and SFS

5) Arista or other wi-fi platform

6) Scripting language i.e., PowerShell, python, etc

7) Modern Data Center i.e., Azure

Desired Skills:

• Working knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rubrik or similar backup architecture
• Palo Alto firewall experience
• Working knowledge of Public Key Infrastructure
• Citrix NetScaler or load balancing experience
• Experience working with a Network Access Control solution

Education and/or Experience
Bachelor's degree in business information systems or closely related field from a four-year college or university preferred and 8 years' experience in infrastructure operations and project delivery. Strong working knowledge of Commonwealth of VA Information Security Standard (SEC530) preferred.