Compute Engineering Team Lead

Overview

Are you a highly skilled IT professional with infrastructure operations experience looking for a leadership position with a variety of responsibilities We have an opening that will allow you to utilize your technical expertise and leadership skills in a fast-paced environment leading the Compute Engineering Teams that focus on designing and automating Esris Private Cloud custom lab environments and enclaves.

Responsibilities

• Lead a diverse team supporting Private Cloud Virtualization Servers Storage and Linux platforms
• Design and deploy equipment application and services across virtual and physical environments
• Identify and implement improvements for deployment and maintenance of physical and virtual hardware
• Focus on self-fulfillment of resources and services
• Look for opportunities to optimize performance and overcome bottlenecks
• Review and provide technical approval for change requests
• Be proactive in recognizing and handling uptime and performance challenges
• Automating using infrastructure as a code
• Collaborate with IT teams to define and develop documented policies procedures and processes such as operational run books and system monitoring
• Provide purchase justifications and project benefit analysis
• Make presentations to executive team colleagues and professional peers
• Grow vendor relationships to support new product acquisition maintenance agreements and education opportunities
• Assist with daily operations as needed to support the team
• Participate in on-call afterhours support rotation
• Shift left and partner on security initiatives

Requirements

• 5 years of infrastructure operations experience including enterprise class server storage and virtualization platforms
• Experience with scripting languages such as Powershell Javascript Python
• In-depth knowledge of and experience with platform hardware and OS level support
• Capable of writing proposals procedures policies and technical documentation
• Experience with Windows Server and Linux distributions (Red Hat Ubuntu SUSE and variants)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with management
• Capable of assisting with the design of infrastructure projects
• Bachelors in computer science or related field

Recommended Qualifications

• Experience with:
  • VMware vCenter vSphere and the vRealize suite of applications
  • Windows Server including clustering file serving and Hyper-V
  • End user computing with VMware Horizon or Citrix
  • NetApp IBM and Nexenta or other enterprise class storage
  • Data Protection software such as Commvault Simpana/Metallic
• Vendor product evaluations (hardware software service providers)
• Familiarity with public cloud environments such as AWS and Azure
• Familiarity with container technology
• Development experience with ServiceNow and operating a CMDB is a plus

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