Engineering Lead

Description:

You will be part of a collaborative and innovative team, dedicated to introducing a strengthened technology foundation across the organization. This is a forward-thinking team, continuously learning through experimentation, research, and professional development opportunities.

What you'll do

• Analyze business and system requirements

• Recommend alternative technologies and improvements

• Lead design and review of new systems

• Plan for integration

• Transition solutions to Operations and provide Level 3 support

• Mentor and coach junior technical staff and managed services staff

• Work with management to review status of projects, performance targets, strategies and operations

• Assesses the performance of vendor staff and works with vendors to address performance issues.

• Decision making

• Work under the direction of Sr Manager, Cloud and Compute Engineering. Exercise substantial personal responsibility and autonomy in the areas of server design, analysis tools, approaches, outputs and methods

• Prioritize work to be performed by other teams related to design and build activities.

What you'll need

• Proficient with compute technologies and services, both on-premise and public Cloud (Azure)

• Significant experience in the design of distributed, high availability compute designs

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Business Studies, IT or relevant experience

• Nice to have: ITIL Foundations certification

• Nice to have: TOGAF certification

• Server Services and Operations:

• Proficient in operating systems: Linux – RHEL, Ubuntu (must have), Windows (nice to have)

• Infrastructure as Code scripting (nice to have)

• High Availability solutions

• Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions

• Modern user authentication mechanisms (e.g. SAML, Claims Based Auth, certificate based auth)

• Monitoring solutions

• Backup/restore solutions

Experience

• A minimum of 5 years in IT

• Relevant experience in deploying and administering Azure services

• Relevant experience in managing OS images and administrating Operating Systems

• Relevant experience in data protection technologies and processes

• Relevant experience in designing Enterprise Infrastructure Services running various Virtualization and Storage platforms

• Server technologies automation – infrastructure as code

• Demonstrated ability to generate and maintain technical documentation