Unix Platform Engineer

Description

OS Platform Engineer 3 (external role Unix Platform Engineer 3) role focusing on virtualization hosting orchestration and converged systems design, deployment, and engineering solutions. The role requires the ability to communicate appropriate technology details of the hypervisor, network and storage framework to all levels of project teams, infrastructure and business areas including all levels of management as needed. Successful candidate will have the ability to design, deploy and troubleshoot a mix of infrastructure and application delivery tasks as assigned. Individual will partner with the development and operations teams in a distributed environment during all phases of project lifecycle to support proof of concept, design, configuration, automation, testing, migration phases and impact triage and incident resolution. This resource will have excellent communication, leadership, finance and documentation skills to drive design phases and deployment rollouts in line with project requirements and constraints.
Roles & Responsibilities Detailed Description Provides enterprise roadmap design and internal product release management
Provide engineering support and roadmap ownership for all enterprise hosting components and environment architectures
Provides solutions engineering and technical design direction to multiple enterprise projects as assigned
Provides efficient implementation of product and service delivery tasks with urgency
Articulates the business value and impact of technical and nontechnical information
Leads collaborative group efforts efficiently across distributed colleague environments
Delivers process documentation for largescale projects
Must have a strong technology process background to understand change requests and impacts
Responds to service requests from individual colleagues, project managers and management
Performs all technical program tasks with minimal supervision
Leads and mentors team peers across organization
Must have strong project task coordination skills
Basic Qualifications Bachelor's degree in technology field or equivalent experience
Min 7 years of enterprise experience regarding design, build and run of a virtualized 1,000+ OSI environment utilizing High Availability, Replication and DR capabilities
Min 7 years of enterprise experience related to all listed platforms, including understanding detailed comparison of primary competitors of IBM AIX, Power, VIO including HMC
RedHat Enterprise Linux v7.x, v6.x
Min 3 years of enterprise experience related to technologies listed, including understanding detailed comparison of primary competitors of Automation and orchestration concepts including Perl, Puppet Enterprise, IBM BigFix Suite
SDS, softwaredefined storage on Dell/EMC ScaleIO
Preferred Qualifications Certification and expert knowledge experience supporting Linux virtualization in VMware technologies
ESXi on VMware vSphere v6.5/v6.0, vCenter, vRealize suites
Expert design abilities and experience including validating requirements, solutions engineering, project estimations
Advanced knowledge of SDN virtual switching technologies including Cisco ACI and VMware NSX capabilities and design attributes
Advanced experience in owning and driving creation and renewal of enterprise service and license agreements
Advanced knowledge of software packages or tools for processing or displaying data related to all listed ServiceNow, Microsoft Excel, SQL Queries
Advanced knowledge and experience in automated robotics engineering CLI, Perl, Puppet Enterprise, Cisco CloudCenter / C3
Advanced knowledge of software defined platforms including Cisco UCS, UCS Manager and UCS Central, Nutanix Prism, Dell/EMC ScaleIO
Advanced knowledge of IaaS design of onprem private cloud, hybrid cloud and public cloud services and migration strategies
Advanced Knowledge of best practices in corporate information security policies, legal and regulatory obligations such as ITIL, Cobit, PCI, SOX, RBAC and equivalent standards
Advanced analysis and problem solving skills with the ability to analyze data from various sources to determine next steps
Proven ability to assess implications of proposed changes on processes and systems
Organizational skills and ability to work on multiple projects and/or assignment simultaneously
Negotiation skills with the ability to influence others by educating and sharing information
Listening, verbal and written communications skills with the ability to present information to a variety of audiences
Ability to instinctively adapt, plan, inform, and influence
Developer Operating Systems and Environments Unix
Technical Architecture, Technical Design Structured Technical Design, Technical Architect distributed