Infrastructure Engineer

Job Description: This consultant level Infrastructure Engineer would be responsible for automating, building and operating IT hardware and software resources in on-prem, cloud, or hybrid scenarios in support of internal customer needs. They are responsible for a wide variety of activities that orchestrate operations of Linux-based IT Infrastructure development, such as automation of administrative tasks across large fleets of servers, capacity planning for workloads, configuring and securing the base operating systems, creating, improving, and providing metrics, observability analytics, installing and maintaining security and manageability agents, etc. They would also use cloud and other off-prem offerings to automate integration with cost-efficient solutions such as storage-as-a-service, containers, and Kubernetes that operate the required workloads. Education: • Bachelor of Science in Computer science, Information Technology or other related discipline. Experience: Minimum of 5+ years of progressively growing responsibilities experience in Linux OS Engineering and automation, with firm understanding of two or more of the mainstream Linux distributions.

Skills Required:

Linux, Jenkins, CI-CD, Tekton, Automation, Linux - Other, redhat, ubuntu, Cloud Infrastructure, TERRAFORM, Ansible, Powershell, deployment, GitHub, ITIL (Infrastructure Library) Service Manager, Performance Tuning, Technical Assistance, Technical Analysis, Technical Support, Technical Documentation, Tech Engineering, Systems Engineering

Skills Preferred:

Ability to communicate and work with cross-functional teams and all levels of management , Ansible, Application Support, Automated Scripting, CI/CD, Python, Java, Kubernetes, Openshift , Testing, VMware, Computer Hardware, Hardware Experience

Experience Required:

Experience: Minimum of 5+ years of progressively growing responsibilities experience in Linux OS Engineering and automation, with firm understanding of two or more of the mainstream Linux distributions. Profile Description: This Consultant-level Infrastructure Engineer would be responsible for automating, building, and operating IT hardware and software resources in on-prem, cloud, or hybrid scenarios in support of internal customer needs. Responsible for planning, configuring, and maintaining servers and the base operating systems, creating and optimizing virtualized environments, default agents, and providing observability and reliability metrics. Work Requirements: Requires knowledge of the following technologies: 1. Working knowledge of at Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform. 2. Bourne Shell scripting 3. One or more higher level languages, such as python, ruby, perl, java, groovy, etc to understand maintainability and other software engineering principles 4. Knowledge of at least 2 different Linux distributions 5. Working knowledge of Kubernetes, with Openshift experience preferred 6. Working knowledge of at least one Pipeline tool, such as Tekton, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc. 7. Understanding of code testing and test-driven development 8. Understanding of virtualization (such as vmware, openshift, etc) and server hardware hardware (such as HPE, Dell, SuperMicro, etc) manageability technologies.

Experience Preferred:

Job Responsibilities: 1. Automate the creation and testing of Linux Server templates for virtual machines and physical hardware using a Jenkins and Tekton CI/CD pipelines 2. Automate the installation, upgrade, and configuration of Linux Operating Systems, including Suse, Redhat, and Ubuntu, on on-prem and cloud infrastructure using a multitude of tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Bourne Shell, and PowerShell 3. Automate manual processes associated with infrastructure deployment via GitOps and infrastructure-as-code 4. Manage security requirements, performance optimizations, and technical direction for the Linux Server Operating Systems 5. Provide L3 Engineering support to Operations teams for all aspects of the Linux Server Operating Systems 6. Provide cross-team support for deploying infrastructure to multiple target environments, including on-prem, plant, and cloud

Education Required:

Bachelor's Degree

Education Preferred:

Master's Degree

Additional Information :

Experience Required : Technical Qualifications : • Overall 10+ years in IT development/operations/support/migrations • Minimum of 5+ years of progressively growing responsibilities experience in Linux OS Engineering and automation, with firm understanding of two or more of the mainstream Linux distributions. • 3+ Years of experience with Tekton Pipelines for Automation • 5+ years of experience with Git repo mgmt. and usage. • 3+ years of creating/managing Ansible playbooks • 3+ years of PowerShell, Ansible & scripting • Infrastructure Experience with servers, network, storage, database, and backups. Additional Information : • Exceptional technical writing skills (run books, DR plans, platform architecture, etc.) • Ability to work with a variety of cross functional teams to support deployment to remote locations across the global. • Must a self-starter, capable of working independently and within a team with minimum supervision. • Must have good communication skills