Server Engineer

Description:

As a Server Engineer you design and plan server infrastructure; you design standards and processes to ensure scalable and reliable server architectures that are highly available.

Key responsibilities

• Act as the second or third point of contact for other technology stack teams seeking technical support in relation to Server Infrastructure.
• On major changes and as an escalation point can support implementations as required by management.
• Adhere to and assist with continual improvements to the overall Architecture standards and application roadmap for the Server and Storage infrastructure.
• Creates and defines Systems design/requirements for documentation in support of PL153 either for New Customer Launches and or complex Move Add Changes. 
• Develop the Design standards and document our roadmap for Microsoft technologies such as: Active Directory, Azure AD, Identity SSO, Desktop as a Service.
• Researches, develops new solutions and designs for them in a manner that improves and pushes forward automation initiatives to optimize time to deploy (Infrastructure as Code).
• Perform peer reviews and approval on Method of Procedures for Changes to be implemented by Server Administrators, ensuring that they are consistent with the architecture frameworks.
• Performs effective capacity management and sizing to ensure correct budget is in place to continue supporting current infrastructure including organic growth, new launches, Mergers and Acquisitions and integrations

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Functional competencies

• Teamwork and Remote Work skills, including mentoring at a distance.
• Interacts with both remote and onsite end users as well as vendors via calls, chat, and
• Records interactions into the ticketing system ensuring accurate and complete ticket updates on either requests or incidents.
• Escalates to Senior resources in a timely manner to ensure fastest resolution of incidents possible. 
• Contributes to the definition of Standard Operating procedures and technology Standards. 
• Contributes to Knowledge Base development.
• Able to effectively project costs for maintenance of legacy and /or new technologies to be acquired/implemented.
• Strong documentation skills required to define TA357 & PL153 Documents along with SOPs and Diagrams.
• Acts as Technology Stack SME.

Qualifications

• B1/B2 - English Written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor Degree of any IT related career and minimum of 3+ years experience in a systems development role. 
• Excellent customer/client handling skills very good problem-solving skills. 
• Experience in Virtualization Proxmox VE Bundle Certified Professional (desirable) 
• Experience in entire Windows Stack. MCP - Microsoft Certified Professional (desirable).
• Linux administration, including shell scripting and other automation languages.
• Experience in Infrastructure Management, Physical Servers, Physical Storage, etc.
• Netapp ONTAP professional certification (desirable)
• Good Cloud Knowledge & interaction in any/all of these technologies: GCP, Azure, AWS. GCP Cloud Engineer, Architect (desirable) / AWS Associate SysOps Admin (desirable)
• IaC Tools experienceautomation (Terraform, Python, YAML, Typescript)
• Experience certificate management solutions
• Experience in backup solutions Veeam, Veritas