Lead Infrastructure Engineer Job Description
Lead infrastructure engineer
provides systematic input on Operation Performance Improvement, Life Cycle Cost Management, System Life Cycle Management and Technical Support & Expertise.
Lead Infrastructure Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Responsible for design, engineering, maintenance, and support of SIP infrastructure and network elements
Lead technical initiatives going in the organization that require understanding of technology, needs collaboration and coordination across the various Tech teams
Engage in Issues triaging, troubleshooting, coordination and resolution efforts for the various systems/platforms of Global Finance Organization
Stay updated on the various Systems, teams, support structure across the organization to be able to effectively engage the right teams and escalate, if needed, for effective and efficient delivery
Do Impact assessment for any infrastructure level changes working with other tech teams, coordinating with various folks over Implementation and validation plans
Work with the team members on maintaining the inventory documentation for all the servers, softwares, technologies, applications supported by the team
Engage in design and infrastructure review sessions and work with team on effective design and support documentation
Improve System processes around the team’s engagement, communication to external teams and the overall delivery
Be aware of compliance requirements and work with Information Security/Audit teams on Risk filings and exceptions/waivers for the same
Provide oversight, management and first level of approval of Global Finance IT Infrastructure spend
Lead Infrastructure Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Lead Infrastructure Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: AWS, ITIL, CCNA, SSO, CCNP, VCP, MCSE, IAT, CISSP, RHCE
Education for Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the lead infrastructure engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Education, Technical, Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Technology
Skills for Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Desired skills for lead infrastructure engineer include:
Catalog management
IBM system utilities
Parallel sysplex
System integration and hardware
Technical standards and deliverables
Account management
Commands
Computer networking
Debugging
Full project delivery life cycle
Desired experience for lead infrastructure engineer includes:
Ensure that Closed Loop activities are supported from a technical perspective and assist SDMs to communicate the technical details of causes for concern
Build strong relationships across the Technical Teams to ensure promoter successes from within the customer contact base
Bachelors degree, additional experience will be considered in lieu of degree
Strong understanding of Active Directory architecture and security aspects
Windows, TCP/IP networking proficiency
7-10 years experience in Information Technology with focus on security with a Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience)
Lead Infrastructure Engineer Examples
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Lead Infrastructure Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of lead infrastructure engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for lead infrastructure engineer
- Willingness to meet with internal customers to discuss current challenges with the service current and future business requirements
- You will be primary technical reference for the company infrastructure supported onsite and at a co-location facility
- Assuming a lead role within the team and provide direction to junior IT admins acting as the focal point of contact for various business units
- Evaluate new products (third party potential in-house development) to continue to progress our capabilities
- This role requires extensive hands-on experience with installation and setup of VMware vSphere products and installation, configuration, integration and functional testing of third party products
- Maintain a culture of continual service improvement across the team and interfacing organizational element
- Must possess very strong technical and problem solving skills in multiple flavors of Linux/Unix such as RedHat, Ubuntu, CentOS, SmartOS, X-86 Solaris, FreeBSD and SUSE Linux
- Support the design, deployment, management and monitoring of Infrastructure and Core Technologies (ICT) Resources, conduct problem analysis and perform system troubleshooting
- Should be an expert in configuration management, automation, orchestration systems (e.g Chef, Puppet, Unity), systems integration, hardware upgrades and maintenance support for large-scale server and storage platforms
- Must possess the ability to work under pressure with aggressive deadlines, prioritize projects, and maintain focus and a positive attitude
Qualifications for lead infrastructure engineer
- Work in a proactive manner identifying accounts that are high touch/volume and highlight opportunities to improve their experiences
- Expertise within web access management, directory services, or web application firewall
- Strong understanding of web based applications and web services security
- Minimum of 10 years of Infrastructure engineering and design experience
- Minimum 3 years experience in end user computing engineering such as VDI
- Programming skills (scripting, Visual Studio, sql, ) desired
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Our company is looking to fill the role of lead infrastructure engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for lead infrastructure engineer
- You will develop the automation tools and frameworks needed to make the process of deployment, validation, and release ever more efficient and defect free
- You are a great problem solver and will ensure the tools and frameworks you develop address the most pressing problems
- You will evangelize the automation tools and frameworks and help various Engineering teams use and benefit from these tools and frameworks
- You are very good at work estimation and prioritize work for optimal risk mitigation
- You will mentor and provide feedback to other technical staff
- You will interact with global cross-functional teams and ensure all the deliverables are on time and of highest quality
- Assigns, directs, and reviews the work of dotted line team members
- Guides and mentors Infrastructure Engineers
- Assigns work based on Engineers competency and availability
- Fills in for absent team members
Qualifications for lead infrastructure engineer
- 5+ years experience supporting the VMware product suits vSphere, vCAC (vRealize), vCO (vRealize Orchestrator) and vCOPS or equivalent industry certifications and/or knowledge
- The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of common compute HW and VMware ESX engineering and architecture experience in large, distributed IT environment
- 3+ years’ experience supporting the VMware product set vSphere, vCAC, vCM, vCO and vCOPs, VCP or equivalent industry certifications and/or knowledge
- Hardware Expertise in enterprise blade servers stand alone SPARC and Intel based systems
- Strong and demonstrated team leadership skills and willing to mentor team members
- Advanced expertise in planning, deployment and management of VMware ESX Cloud environments
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a lead infrastructure engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for lead infrastructure engineer
- Interfaces with project managers and technical contacts outside the team
- Raising the bar for the DVA team for systems knowledge and expertise
- Solving problems relating to mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence
- Are a successful, fast-growing company with at start-up work vibe
- Full support for remote work—you get to visit our SF office every couple months to connect with your peers and partners
- Automate, optimize and drive efficiency of effort, code and process
- Develop code for Ellation’s video platforms and lead architectural design review, trade-offs, and risk-mitigation considerations for project teams that deliver solid innovative video experience to our customers
- Work closely with technical and product management to ensure Ellation builds the best in class video technology platform
- Work with QoS tools and customer support reports for ongoing monitoring / alerting against quality of video service
- Bridge other API services with video infrastructure for ingest, discovery and entitlements
Qualifications for lead infrastructure engineer
- Expertise and experience in Cloud Automation, Operations and Monitoring such as VMware vRealize Suite
- Experience and expertise in SAN and NAS storage planning, deployment and management, primarily EMC VNX
- Solid and proven systems administration of Linux and Network systems to an advanced level
- Exposure to Enterprise level Backup Solutions and ability to manage these environments
- Suitable Knowledge Network hardware setup (switches, firewalls)
- A thorough understanding of TCP/IP networking, relational databases and client server computing models
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of lead infrastructure engineer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for lead infrastructure engineer
- Scripting languages including VBA, PowerShell, Perl
- When acting in the capacity of a technical lead, manage project related expenses in accordance with the approved project budget
- Resiliency – Engineer modern deployment methods and drive remediation of resiliency gaps partnering with Application development
- Performance Management – Partner with Application Development, Infrastructure and Information Security to identify and engineer application and infrastructure performance improvement opportunities
- Delivery – Participate in architectural design reviews to ensure Production considerations and non-functional requirements are understood and included in stories and definition of done
- Responsible for designing, implementing, managing and continuously improving the GTO Processes
- Manage and enhance the Infrastructure->Service Center integration program
- Manage and enhance the process elements of out-tasked vendors across I&O
- Establish the process frameworks and document the process flows that structures GTO to run like a technology service provider
- Construct Operating and Service Agreements for primary functions and services
Qualifications for lead infrastructure engineer
- BS or higher degree in CS/EE/CE or equivalent
- Strong problem-solving skills with a generalist background in development
- 2 + yrs experience, building automation frameworks and test code
- Familiarity with low-level C/C++
- DB / NoSQL experience a plus
- Ability to define and implement software testing processes
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Our growing company is looking for a lead infrastructure engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for lead infrastructure engineer
- Support to manage and enhance the governance model that enables capacity management, resource forecasting, and delivery task-time analysis
- Establish key metrics around service delivery, management, and operations
- Create standard & repeatable processes to diagnose issues, track status & escalate issues in/outside team
- Build process improvement/automation to reduce support effort and increase availability and scalability
- Maintain Runbooks, SOPs, and MOPs, that document and enhance GTO functions
- Drive a spirit of pride and sense of process management across GTO functions globally
- Manage and maintain the I&O related area of our ITSM tool ServiceNow
- Manage, maintain and trouble shoot Thales and Gemalto infrastructure
- Planning, designing, managing and documenting delivery of infrastructure technologies supporting a complex and heterogeneous corporate data and voice infrastructure
- Using standard methodologies (ITIL, risk management, project management, and TCO calculation) to ensure reliability, security, recoverability and cost effectiveness of all designed and delivered solutions
Qualifications for lead infrastructure engineer
- Experience testing and automating on Android
- Expertise in cameras, imaging, image processing or computer vision
- Thorough understanding or image quality fundamentals desired
- Minimum of 10 years Storage engineering experience in of SAN, NAS and/or Backup Technologies
- The individual must demonstrate a broad understanding of internetworking technology principles that includes proficiency in UNIX, DNS/DHCP, and BIND protocol
- The individual must be able to create network plans, ensure technology interoperability, document existing and proposed network infrastructure, maintain relationships with technical solution providers, and provide last tier troubleshooting/support