Infrastructure Engineer II

Job responsibilities

• Applies technical knowledge to assignments with a defined scope such as testing the performance of the infrastructure and understanding and verifying that requirements were successfully met. Responsible for planning, coordinating, and supervising all activities related to the integration of software programs and applications (specifically complex MSI/X and AppV packages) into the organizations information systems. This team member is also responsible for testing the interoperability of application modules under development by in-house software development teams. Proven communication skills, problem-solving skills, and a thorough knowledge of integration best practices are critical to successful performance in this role.
• Promotes results, collects and analyzes monitoring data in test and production, and sees assignments through to completion. Adheres to architectural design standards, risk management and security policies, data management policies, leading presentations in architecture review, strategic technology experienced team members and conducts peer code reviews. Participates in the development of integration elements, data models, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
• Assists in the building of open 3rd-party Software Development Kits (SDKs). Responsible for influencing and promoting the organizations software delivery strategy.
• Partners with 3rd party vendors, internal development teams, and product owners to promote application modernization strategies that enable virtualization.
• Designs and documents procedures for installation, upgrade and customizations. Provide design expertise. Document the solution fully as required and present at relevant security/architecture/ goverce forums as needed. Work iteratively with these forums to gain approval for the solution.
• Builds and test the solution in formal test, QA and UAT surroundings before implementing in the production environment.

• Develops appropriate documentation including (but not limited to) technical architecture guides and diagrams, full functional specification, security configuration, run books and other operational documents. Generate relevant knowledge base articles and on-board the solution to the production support teams.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Infrastructure engineering concepts and 2+ years applied experience
• Experience in application packaging / application development roles. The candidate must have served as an escalation point / lead in previous application packaging roles supporting junior packagers.
• Advanced Microsoft App-V 5x sequencing skills, connection group experience, Office add-ins. Advanced App-V 5x experience using Deployment and User config XML files to run system and user level scripts
• Experience creating Cloudpaging (Numecent) & hybrid App-V 5x packages in support of physical driver installs. Advanced MSI/X packaging and scripting (Admin Studio. , VB, Wise, PowerShell).
• Virtualization (VMWare/Hyper-V), Windows 7/10, Citrix XenApp, Microsoft Windows Servers 2008/2016/2019, In depth knowledge of Microsofts SCCM 2012/16 technology, Microsoft Exchange/Office 365, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS/Terminal Services), VDI Solutions (Microsoft/Citrix/VMWare), Microsoft Active Directory.
• Internals of distributed Operating System (Unix/Linux, Windows, Z/OS) internals.
• Experience with software development in one or more of the programming languages (PowerShell, Java, C#, . NET, Python).
• Experience in systems Programming & enterprise scale resiliency, modern compute technologies (e. g. , virtualization, cloud)
• Familiar with Agile development process and automated testing. Experience working across large infrastructure environments and distributed across multiple data centers. Experience in end-to-end systems automation and orchestration. Experience in Systems and Application monitoring systems and instrumentation.

• Proficient in multiple business disciplines/functions strategic directions through technology. Develops mindset for risk and control compliance to departmental and company- wide standards
• Executes within a client centric environment when working with teams and contributors. Experience in large scale Software development in one or more of the programming languages (C, C++, Perl, Python, Java, C#, . NET)
• Comprehensive professional experience working in large scale enterprise environments