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The Midtown Group has been selected to fulfill two urgent and onsite full-time positions for one of the largest mass media companies that creates and distributes industry-leading content across a variety of platforms to audiences around the world.
DESCRIPTION:
These exciting positions will primarily be responsible for assisting with the organizations most critical IT initiative, building-up a cloud/AWS infrastructure and the closely related AWS projects that will come with this effort. Ideal candidates will have strong networking/Linux skills, proficiency with Cisco ASR routers, be very familiar with IP Tables, and have 10+ years of applicable experience. The environment consists of multiple Linux firewalls, so those who have utilized use Chef/Ansible for configuration management will be well received.
All candidates must have large organization experience, be able to communicate efficiently and work well in a team-oriented environment. Media industry experience a plus.
The Sr. Network Engineers will:
Learn and understand the intricacies of the existing infrastructure and help develop standards for a cloud migration strategy
Work with the management team to establish an exit strategy from our on-premise data center to a cloud provider
Participate in documenting business and technical requirements
Interpret business and technical requirements and translate them into capacity and capability requirements
Deliver designs and engineering artifacts for construction by the implementation team and third-party vendors
Work with stakeholders and implementers (internal and third party) to deploy technologies
Work with project team to ensure timely delivery of enterprise wide projects
Key Responsibilities:
Work closely with analysts, strategists, business users and product management. Document related technical requirements. Quantify the impact of business and technical requirements on capacity, resiliency, and design.
Use business and technical requirements as well as impact analyses to develop requirements for future infrastructure needs.
Utilize monitoring tools and other resources to plan and implement changes and upgrades before they become critical or impact the business.
Design and implement new products and solutions to improve performance, service and cost
Define, design, develop and build out service catalog to improve service offerings
Produce high level and detailed design documentation. Produce detailed engineering documentation and specifications for implementation.
Participate in and develop requests for proposals, scope documents, and statements of work for projects.
Assist in the DR planning of a multi-site virtualization and storage infrastructure along with DR planning for local sites where IT Infrastructure equipment is present
Strive to become a SME to diagnose and resolve problems on Windows and Linux servers, applications, databases, backup services, network services, cloud platforms and VMware alongside application owners and team members.
Maintain an expert level of knowledge by maintaining current certifications, attending seminars and through other related activities
Work with the IT Infrastructure team to ensure the quality of coordinated projects and business needs
Work alongside internal team members, oversee consultants and act as liaison between IT staff and application owner to ensure project success
Mentor and lead other team members as required to satisfy department goals
Document related technical requirements. Quantify the impact of business and technical requirements on availability, performance, capacity, resiliency, and design.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
10+ years experience of increasing complexity and responsibility in implementation, engineering, design, and architecture roles
Experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or current hands on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience
Expertise in information and integration architecture and technologies
Proven ability to design, build and publish results of technology and Proof of Concepts
Experience working with functional, development teams and technical teams to lead a matrix infrastructure organization
Proficiency with design, installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and monitoring of core infrastructure including Server Hardware, VMWare, Networks, Storage, Windows and Linux
Strong knowledge and implementation of configuration management (AWS System Manager, Azure Automation, Puppet, Chef or DSC)
Experience developing automation solutions and working in a highly automated environment
Experience in defining, designing and developing a service catalog to deliver Infrastructure services to the enterprise
Familiarity with database technologies such as MySQL, MS SQL, NoSQL (Mongo) or PostgreSQL
Monitoring and logging tools and strategies for management and troubleshooting of issues in a fast-paced environment
Self-motivated and able to grasp new concepts quickly. Must be comfortable and confident in an ambiguous environment.
Migration of infrastructure, data and applications out of legacy data centers into cloud and hybrid environments (public and private)
Demonstrable experience in architecting large-scale cloud projects beyond traditional IaaS with extensive experience in architecting and developing enterprise public cloud solutions
Comfortable with being responsible for the delivery of significant cloud and automation projects
Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent
Preferred:
Certifications in public cloud platforms (AWS, Google, Azure) desired. Media industry experience a plus.
Compensation:
140K range with rich benefits package and room for growth.
Qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to send resumes along ASAP for immediate and confidential consideration.
