Job Description

Senior Staff Engineer (Server Engineer) role will provide engineering support for complex system management activities related to system software, hardware, performance, problem determination or resource management requiring communication and coordination with vendors, technicians, clients, and management. The role will also provide technical input to management decision making in the areas of software, hardware, and performance. This role may include defining networking requirements; performing detailed analysis of various projects and requests; developing designs for projects that have medium to high complexity; formulating procedures; monitoring key performance indicators; and implementing advanced business solutions. It may also integrate systems or operate in a DevOps model depending on the maturity of the organization and/or product. 

Position Responsibilities:

Design & Methodology

Work closely with business units, application teams, infrastructure areas and vendors to identity, review and evaluate the solution requirements.
Investigate and propose strategic fits for virtualization, consolidation and rationalization solution opportunities within the infrastructure or business. Propose changes to the technical design solutions as applicable.
Evaluate and align strategic fit solutions across platforms and solutions specific to system hardware and software technologies.
Understand, participate, review and influence long term capacity planning and technology investments.

Technical Consulting

Provide client consulting and planning guidance as applicable for moderate to complex projects.
Provide consultation and works closely with other functional infrastructure areas/departments on multiple initiatives to meet common organizational/business goals and objectives.
Participate in and provides consulting to project teams on architectural, design development, integration opportunities, planning of complex systems.
Knowledge of AWS, Azure, VMWare, Jenkins, Bitbucket and Terrform.
Being able to build servers in all the area’s above, for the domains, with Windows 2012R2, 2016, and Windows 2019 servers. Setup, configure and understand shares, NTFS permissions, IIS including FTP and SFTP (OpenSSH). Be able to use Terraform to deploy AWS servers, and review Bitbucket pull request.
Use Jenkins to deploy the server builds, or update AWS Security Groups.
Understand and use and setup load balancers for the cloud and on prem. The job will work closely with the application team, not only to build the servers.

Planning & Organizing

Map requirements into standard services solution, identity opportunities for integrating to existing or reuse technology and provide cost effective solutions for moderate to large highly complex project/programs/initiatives.
Review, identify and manage requirements for moderate to complex solutions and do a cost value, feasibility and risk analysis.

Risk Management

Review, participate, develop and update architectural standards, guiding principles, rationales and strategies.
Evaluate, review and approve highly complex design solutions for business and Infrastructure project or programs or initiatives.

Administration

Keep management informed of status of on activities through accurate, timely, and appropriate reporting.
Actively participate in committees representing the department and/or planning unit.

Position Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Math, Science or Engineering or High School Diploma or GED and 12 years of technology experience
6 years of Technology Experience
6 years in identifying technical solutions for complex business problems, identifying the benefits and risks of the solutions and providing recommendations
This position is not eligible for sponsorship. Must have indefinite employment authorization.