Infrastructure Project Engineer (remote)

Infrastructure Project Engineer (remote first)

VANRATH are once again working with a leading Global Payments based remotely in hiring at Infrastructure Project Engineer (remote first).The company has really grown its NI presence over the last couple of years and is going from strength to strength building a great work/life balance culture and a remote first working environment.

Key Duties & Responsibilities for the Infrastructure Project Engineer:

• Provide senior Technical Operations leadership on all design and standards issues including analysis, development, implementation, as well as training and mentoring of technologies
• Evaluate, test, develop, and implement complex technical solutions to address a variety of business problems. This includes hardware, software, configurations standards, and creating solutions with a specific focus on driving business value.
• Responsible for supporting system and network infrastructure including but not limited to switches, routers, load balancers, firewalls, compute, storage, and virtualization assets. Oversees proactive grooming, life cycle management, upgrades, capacity management, and high priority incident, change, and problem management.
• Manages highly visible/risky changes and ensures infrastructure is running efficiently. Acts as Technical Operations liaison to peers in Engineering, Architecture, Information Security, and Production Support.
• Works closely with Engineering and Security to stay abreast of upcoming Technical Operations related initiatives, as well as notifies these groups of re-occurring issues within the Technical Operations realm.
• Ensure the availability, performance, and operational integrity of the Systems and Network Engineering domain.
• Align systems solutions/technologies to complement and support business/strategic plans.
• Make recommendations for emerging, new, and altered technologies that would contribute to system productivity and cost savings improvements.
• Establish system management criteria and develop, maintain, and monitor procedures and policies.
• Coordinate appliance and software upgrades with vendors and teams as necessary.
• Coordinate capacity planning and analyze information for hardware tuning and integration.
• Issue technical bulletins to inform users of system changes and act as technical advisor.
• Provide CTO office with regular reports detailing network usage, security, and voice system service levels, maintenance, turnaround, and response times.
• Schedule and coordinate with the Security team to conduct System/Network and Information Security assessments.
• Coordinate the development of a comprehensive Network and Systems Disaster Recovery Plan, maintain the plan, and conduct periodic testing.
• Develop written procedures, engineering drawings, and other technical documentation.
• Coordinate and direct preventative maintenance of significant systems components.
• Communicate to the general organization on the support efforts of project-related items.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently with competing deadlines.
• Limited supervision and direction are provided, as this individual can operate and drive results and set priorities independently.
• Champion standard change management and configuration policies.

The Ideal Person:

· Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.
· 5+ years of relevant experience in Windows/Linux/Cloud environments.
· Commitment to achieving 100% uptime.
· Deep technical expertise and hands-on with Windows Server administration, Linux, Active Directory, Exchange, IIS, DHCP, DNS, DFSR, etc.
· Strong knowledge and experience with data center Hyper-V or VMWare/ESXi virtualization technologies.
· Experience with Azure
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
· Demonstrated ability to have completed multiple, complex technical projects.
· Ability to effectively prioritize, research problems, document, execute, and manage tasks within a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
· Must be self-motivated and detail-oriented.
· Ability to work on a team and independently.

Remuneration
Salary for the role is flexible depending on levels of experience but would be between 50-55k depending on experience,
To find out more information on the role advertised, please send in your CV via the link below.