Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Sr. Infrastructure Engineer

Title: Sr. Infrastructure Engineer
Position: Contract
Location: Philadelphia
Duration: 12+ months


I have an immediate need in downtown Philadelphia, PA for a Sr. Infrastructure Engineer for 12+ months.  Details are below.  Rate is open.  Please let me know if you have any qualified candidates.

POSITION DETAILS:
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

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