Infrastructure Engineer

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Infrastructure Engineer in Charlotte, NC (Hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Contract Duration: 24 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• 4+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.
• Strong desire to be hands-on daily and provide operational and engineering support for a wide array of technology, encompassing physical hardware, operating systems, as well as software platforms.
• Passionate and self-driven desire to learn new approaches and new technologies and with direction be able to independently problem solve and apply critical thinking skills to address technical challenges.
• Proven ability to rapidly acquire new skills, adaptable, and eager to tackle new challenges.
• Ability to take direction and work autonomously on assigned objectives.
• Excels at working within a team environment to achieve shared goals.
• Proven experience and technical knowledge in configuring, maintaining, supporting, troubleshooting and problem solving related to each of these core Infrastructure domains:
• Compute
• Storage
• Networking
• Virtualization
• A track record engineering and operationalizing cross-platform operating systems and platforms, including customizing/packaging, deploying, supporting, patching and maintaining:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2019, 2022
• Microsoft Windows 10/11
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, 9
• Demonstrated advanced experience in deploying, configuring and running Microsoft Domain Services and related technologies:
• Active Directory Domain Services
• Group Policy Creation/Management
• Desired State Image, Configuration and Drift Management
• System Center / Endpoint Configuration Manager
• Windows Update Services
• Windows DNS
• Firm operational and configuration knowledge of Virtualization and container technologies, especially:
• VMware vSphere Suite
• VMWare NSX (formerly NSX-T/Data Center)
• Have working experience authoring automation scripts and using Infrastructure as Code tools, including:
• Terraform
• PowerShell
• BASH
• Administration and Engineering experience within a cloud platform, especially Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform
• Experience working at the tenant level / organization level.
• Hybrid Connectivity
• Microsoft Entra ID
• Google Workspace
• Must be able to be onsite in Charlotte, NC when required or further necessary to perform physical work within the Innovation Labs environment.
• Ability to lift 75+lbs with assistance.
• Ability to work within a server room to rack/stack/cable infrastructure.
• Ability to navigate above server racks or below sub-floors
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Desired Skills & Experience

• Administering and Configuration of Red Hat Satellite
• Experience with creating and using API endpoints.
• Engineering Certifications in Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform
• OpenShift and OpenShift Container Service
• Experience with C# or other Higher-Level Object-Oriented languages

What You Will Be Doing

• Consult on or participate in moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within Infrastructure Engineering and contribute to large-scale planning related to Infrastructure Engineering deliverables.
• Review and analyze moderately complex Infrastructure Engineering challenges that require an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Contribute to the resolution of moderately complex issues and consult with others to meet Infrastructure Engineering deliverables while leveraging solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with client personnel in Infrastructure Engineering.
• Hands-on technical knowledge to engineer, operate and support all our systems and platforms we use in the lab to deliver meaningful solutions to our internal customers.
• Ensure continuous uptime, stability, and compliance in all levels for all the Innovation Labs systems and environments.
• Author and then utilize scripting and infrastructure as code to automate the support of on-premises, hybrid, and cloud infrastructures and lab services.
• Help design and implement security best practices and zero trust principles across all lab systems and platforms.
• Collaborate with project managers and development partners to ensure effective and efficient delivery, deployment, operation, monitoring, and support of our internal customers and applications.