Infrastructure Engineers

Title:Infrastructure Engineers
Position: Contract
Location:Philadelphia, PA
Duration:log term
Rate: 40-45c2c
Face to face interviews are a MUST

We are seeking Infrastructure Engineers for a long term assignment in Philadelphia. Face to face interviews are a MUST!!

The Server Infrastructure Support is responsible for the overall maintenance of the compute infrastructure in both production and preproduction environments. The candidate will be a member of a 24x7 team and assist in deploying, upgrading, troubleshooting, monitoring, reporting and improving upon those hardware platforms.



PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES / ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

· Assist in managing a large scale virtual infrastructure environment (i.e., deploy new servers, maintain existing ones, patch, etc)

· Work with on & offshore resources to provide 24x7 support for infrastructure under management

· Troubleshooting errors on physical and virtual servers that sit underneath proprietary and open source applications in production and pre-production environments

· Identifying, defining, and executing/working with external teams to execute on service monitoring requirements

· Identifying, implementing, and documenting of technical SOPs for maintenance tasks

· Working with development teams to further operationalize their applications, with a focus on repeatability of , redundancy, and scalability

· Monitor the health and status of systems under management

· Assist in capacity planning

· Ability to create and maintain policies, standards, and overall system documentation

Participate in internal development and testing of monitoring, analytics and troubleshooting tools



SKILLS REQUIREMENTS

· 5+ years of systems engineering, with a bias towards Unix/Linux environments

· Experience with supporting large scale environments is a major plus

· In-depth understanding of virtualization technologies i.e., VMware, ESXi

· Experience with a variety of hardware platforms (HP Blades, Cisco UCS, DL360, DL560, etc)

· Ability to work with offshore teams, including 24 x 7 NOCs

· Knowledge of core technology services (DNS, NTP, etc)

· Familiarity with SAN technologies and converged networking

· Scripting and/or development background (Ruby, bash, Python, Perl, etc.) is a plus

· Experience with 3rd party platform as a service providers/service offerings is a plus

· Familiarity with Nagios, OP5, Splunk, or DynaTrace a plus

· Excellent troubleshooting skills

· Solid communications skills

· "Customer-first" mentality

· Ability to work with/in teams in a dynamic organizational environment

· Extremely attentive to detail



Thanks and Warm Regards,

C Mathan Brabhu
V: 301.880.0219 | C: 301.327.8532 | F: 888.599.5824 | E: Mathan@optimalbg.com | C: Optimal Business Group, Inc