Technology Specialist

• We are looking to hire a Windows Engineer to join our Infrastructure team
• In this role you will help to define strategy for our Windows environment and support its implementation
• This means you will bring new technology to the organization and help to implement and then operationalize it
• You will also form last line of defense for major incidents and help prevent outages, You will with environments on-premise, in IBM Cloud and AWS
• Part of your role will be to collaborate and help supervise our technology partners, vendors, managed service providers

What you will do

• Design, deploy, and administer Windows based infrastructure
• Input into Windows platform strategy and infrastructure roadmap
• Prepare project plans, provide estimates for project tasks, and assist with prioritization in relation to capacity planning and performance analytics.
• Collaborate with vendors, manage service providers and colleagues.
• Oversee operations, establish process and standard operating procedures
• Be the last line defense and escalation point for high severity production incidents
• Build OS images, patch bundles, scripts and automation
• Build CI/CD Pipelines
• Write code in PowerShell, Python/Ruby/Go and desired state for Chef/Ansible

Working Environment:

• Fully Remote (in the US) or hybrid in NYC Metro
• New team in a new engineering function. Plan for unexpected and for opportunities to set standards / policies. Also plan for frequent involvement in day-to-day incidents (operations) until you mature the environment.
• Global organization with colleagues from overseas and work engagements outside of core business hours

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years in a similar role
• Ability to clearly communicate orally and in writing with engineers, vendors, managers, business, clients.
• Ability to write standard operating procedures, documentation, strategy documents and roadmaps
• 2+ years of experience with AWS/Azure (EC2, S3, AMI, EBS, IAM, VPC)
• 5+ years of experience with VMware based virtualization
• Comfortable in several scripting languages (PowerShell, Python, Ruby, Go, etc).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Good understanding of centralized configuration management, orchestration, and infrastructure as code techniques (Terraform)
• Experience with CI/CD tools and techniques (Jenkins)
• Running containers in Windows environment
• Experience with Observability / Monitoring tooling - Datadog, Splunk, ELK
• Ability to write GPO
• Experience with running AD
• Good understanding of networking protocols including switching technologies, routing fundamentals, firewalls, IP subnets, firewalling, load balancing