Job#: 2001302
Job Description:
Summary - Senior Specialty Systems Operation Engineer - Hybrid in Charlotte, NC - W2 only, no C2C
Job Description Summary
Specialty Systems Operations: Covers jobs which provides platform system support for technical issues & initiatives related to large-scale applications, systems, databases and/or other technical products and services.
Job Description
About this role:
Our Client is seeking a Senior Specialty Systems Operations Engineer...
In this role, you will:
Lead or participate in managing all installed systems and infrastructure, moderately complex application upgrades and vulnerability remediation efforts, within the Systems Operations functional area
Lead team to meet moderately complex technical deliverables while leveraging solid understanding of technical process controls or standards
Act independently as a liaison for the line of business in support of daily inquiries, problem and incident management, project delivery, and escalations by following established guidebooks
Liaise with functional or operational managers to understand their current and future information needs and develop plans and schedules for integrating these needs into existing operations
Recommend solutions to resolve technical issues and achieve highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability by automating platform activities to lower human intervention time on related tasks
Review and analyze moderately complex operational support systems, application software, and system management tools to ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
Facilitate discussions on preventative action, root cause analysis and resolutions with service management
Collaborate and consult with peers, mid-level managers, vendors and other technical personnel to resolve technical issues and achieve highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability and reliability
Provide training and mentoring to lower experienced team members on guidebook changes and lead team to meet technical deliverables, while leveraging solid understanding of technical process controls or standards
Collaborate with development teams to update business continuity plans and provide input on development of new and existing support guidebooks
Operational Support of Cloud Technologies including Kubernetes, VMWare Tanzu (PCF) Application Service (TAS), and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated (TKGI).
Work closely with internal engineering teams and VMware to adopt and adapt to best practices for VMWare TANZU and assist partners with troubleshooting with onboarding, migrations to new foundations and day to day break-fix activities and upgrades as needed.
Required Qualifications, US:
4+ years of systems engineering or technology architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
Desired Qualifications:
Experience with one or more Cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)/Tanzu App Service (TAS)
Application or Middleware, IIS, Java, Tomcat, or relevant Web Technologies support experience
One or more Cloud Certifications
Knowledge in containerization technologies/Kubernetes
Linux Administration skills
Experience with VMWare ESX, NSX-T and virtualizations technologies that support a LINUX client base
Experience with Terraform and Ansible
Knowledge and understanding of Splunk/Prometheus/Grafana
Experience with Urban Code
Experience with Redis/In-Memory caching solutions
Job Expectations:
This position requires on call rotation and does include being paged but is not limited to only when on call. Your services could be needed when on shift and sometimes includes after hours support.
Strong communication skills to write up root cause updates when needed.
May require document updates, certifications and updates on Confluence or other locations for customer consumption.
This position is not 100% remote and is currently a hybrid work option. You may be required to work on-site/go into the office on a regular cadence on a set schedule.
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