Infrastructure Engineer - Digital

Position Summary:

Infrastructure Engineer works under Project Delivery organization with primary role to support infrastructure-related project activities from design to implementation. He/she will be responsible for sizing/planning, installation, maintenance, and support for On-Premises and/or Cloud environments. Infrastructures include development, prototyping, testing, training, and production environments as applicable for each project.

The support includes but not limited to virtualization, segmentation, and firewall / security configuration to ensure reliability, security, and optimized life-cycle performance necessary for installed solutions. Also, the Infrastructure Engineer is expected to work with cross-functional delivery teams.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Support preparing pre-sale technical proposals and detailed design, including sizing, for infrastructure scope of projects.
2. Support implementation and testing of routine hardware installations including computers, network components, and multi-functional devices.
3. Provide services for all core infrastructure activities from project initiation to final handing over. This includes servers’ virtualization, networking, connectivity, active directory, storage/backup administration, firewall configuration, access control, operating systems, etc.
4. Coordinate related vendor interactions including sourcing of material/services.
5. Setup/prepare and administer the different infrastructure environments such as development, prototyping, testing, production, and training.
6. Manage system upgrades, platform refreshes, implementation, and system testing.
7. Monitor and maintain infrastructure system performance throughout project execution to ensure system stability, availability, reliability, cybersecurity, and safeguarding data (backup images).
8. Assist in conducting fault analysis and resolving complex issues. Assist with troubleshooting and resolving system/configuration issues.
9. Utilize automated mediums to perform staging, pre-loading configurations, and onsite deployment, ultimately enhancing proficiency in automation.
10. Support in preparing technical reports/presentation assessments/updates for senior management for infrastructure engineering projects.
11. Develop understanding of emerging industry trends, innovations, and best practices in infrastructure engineering design and implementation. Be aware of vendor products, services, and future updates.
12. Follow and promote use of industry best practices, standards and procedures.
13. Provide technical guidance to junior engineers and peers.

Qualifications and Requirements:

1. Academic: BSc in computer engineering or similar field.
2. Experience: Minimum of 5 Years experience involving infrastructure design and deployment for complex applications.
3. Operating Systems: Experience in Windows and/or Linux (tools like Ubuntu, Redhat, CentOS, etc.) server OS’s.
4. Virtualization: Experienced in tools such as VMWare / Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM.
5. Experienced in virtualization of network, data centers, and storage management.
6. Server Administration: Working knowledge in admin activities such as backup of data/recovery images, fault-tolerance, redundancy, etc.
7. Configuration/task automation using PowerShell, Python, etc.
8. Performance monitoring with tools such as Datadog, Grafana/Prometheus, etc.
9. Migration activities from/to virtualized platforms.
10. Working knowledge with applications scripting such as JavaScript.
11. Network Administration: Network configuration/protocols (DNS, IPv4, TCP/IP, DHCP, etc.)
12. Experience in Load Balancer (Traffic proxy/distribution) especially F5.
13. Cybersecurity Controls: Experienced in security control tools such as XDR, Firewalls/WAFs, Micro Segmentation, Zero-Trust Framework, API Protection, Active Directory, penetration and hardening tests, etc.
14. Fundamental knowledge in OT cybersecurity architectures and layers especially DMZ and topology as per ISA95.
15. Cloud Systems: Awareness of cloud services, network architecture, data storage redundancy, availability, and recovery solutions.
16. Resource Management/Scheduling systems: Knowledgeable about tools like Slurm (for Linux), LSF, etc.
17. Infrastructure Integration: Basic knowledge in BI/DSV infrastructure integration/configuration requirements.
18. Knowledgeable in dataflows/structures from/to historians such as PI.
19. Knowledgeable in integration/configuration with SAP/ERPs.
20. Working knowledge of decentralized architecture design patterns and distributed systems.
21. Professional Certifications: Holds at least 1 Cybersecurity and 1 Virtualization certifications.