Principal Server and Storage Engineer Full Time

*Position is bonus eligible*

Prestigious Financial Company is currently seeking a Principal Server and Storage Engineer. Candidate will be responsible for overall on-prem infrastructure (Servers and Storage) architecture and support, as well as ensuring that teams or maintaining and executing organizational policies, procedures and controls, configuration management, release and deployment management, service monitoring, support, and problem management.

Candidate will work with a team of 25 infrastructure administrators/engineers from Linux, Windows, Virtualization and Storage to train and transition the teams to support AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for optimization, documentation, and support of the infrastructure components of hosted in the on-premises data centers and the AWS cloud.
• Take ownership of the DevOps discipline and be responsible for managing all Level 2 server/infrastructure related issues in AWS.
• Responsible for monitoring server and storage performance in On-prem and AWS
• Responsible for CI/CD pipeline build, improvement, and management
• Support and troubleshoot infrastructure issues in production environments.
• Evaluate new tools, technologies, and processes to improve speed, efficiency, and scalability of continuous integration environments.

Qualifications:

• Experience in managing Linux, Windows, VMWARE and Storage on-prem environments.
• Experience in Containers and Kubernetes.
• Good understanding of how different infrastructure components interact in a distributed environment.
• Ability to investigate and perform Root Cause Analysis on reported issues and suggest workarounds before implementing the permanent fix
• Act as a subject matter expert for troubleshooting and resolving complex problems that span several different platforms.
• Partner with different infrastructure and development teams
• Work independently, prioritizes existing projects, and proactively determine areas requiring additional attention, monitoring, or maintenance.
• Work in collaboration with Infrastructure teams, product managers, development teams and architects to provide platform-related knowledge.=

Technical Skills:

• Experience in Linux and Windows OS
• Experience with VMWARE
• Experience with EMC and Netapp Storage
• Programming/Scripting experience in languages like Java, Bash, Python
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools (examples – GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker, Compose, K8s)
• Experience with cloud technologies and migrations
• Working knowledge of DevOps tools. eg, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipeline etc.
• Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, EC2, S3, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM etc.
• Experience developing and delivering technical solutions using On-prem infrastructure and public cloud service providers like Amazon, Google, etc.
• Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk
• Experience with RESTful APIs and JSON RPC
• Experience following Git workflows

B.S. in Computer Science or (preferred) M.S. in Computer Science or Information Systems

Minimum 6+ years of experience in Compute (Linux/Windows) administration

Minimum 5 years leading projects

ITIL Certification preferred

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