Primary Responsibilities

• Work with Software Engineering teams to evaluate system specifications, with regards to provisioning and delivery of infrastructure· 
• Create and maintain IAC using industry standard platforms.
• Engage in capacity planning and demand forecasting; software performance analysis and system tuning.
• Administration of Red Hat Linux (VM level), to include configuration, patching, and overall server health.
• Analyze all aspects of existing application infrastructure and recommend modifications that will enhance application reliability, availability and scalability.
• Experience using performance monitoring tools to identify system performance issues and bottlenecks.
• Analyze dump files and error codes.
• Document Root Cause Analysis for escalated issues and/or complex troubleshooting.
• Troubleshoot research and analyze complex network design and architecture problems.
• Familiarity with log aggregation tools such as Splunk.
• Analyze and document the infrastructure to achieve and maintain auto-scaling.
• Provide Support for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
• You will be involved in solving moderately complex problems.
• Participate in on-call rotation to maintain application availability.
• Other responsibilities as determined necessary.

Required Qualifications

• A Bachelor /Master Degree in applicable areas of expertise or equivalent experience.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect/Sysops/Devops – Associate/Professional (certification).
• Previous Cloud Experience with Amazon Web Services.
• Detailed experience designing fault tolerant and highly available systems.
• Experience with automated configuration and deployment; Chef, Puppet, Terraform, or other Infrastructure as Code (IAC) frameworks.
• Previous System Admin experience; preferably Red Hat.
• Knowledge of, or experience with, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
• Past experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure problems in an enterprise environment.
• Knowledge and understanding of network theory; protocols (TCP / IP, UDP, ICMP, etc.), MAC addresses, IP packets and their framing, DNS, LDAP, OSI layers, and load balancing).
• Past experience with app and web server configuration and maintenance (JBoss, WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, or similar).
• Ability to communicate analysis, including trends and opportunities, to improve service availability.
• Experience supporting, configuring and engineering applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous work experience as a system admin, and/or a network engineer.
• Deep understanding of industry relevant security controls (boundary/perimeter protection, data loss prevention, encryption, etc.).
• Proponent of immutable infrastructure.
• Experience in software development environments.
• Past experience as a system administrator or network engineer.
• Thorough understanding of networking, especially VM environments.