Senior Advisor, IT Infrastructure

Company: Avacend, Inc.
Location: Round Rock
Posted on: May 3, 2021

Job Description:

Job Title: Infrastructure Automation Engineer Location: 100% remote Hours: Standard - 8am-5pm Key responsibilities: In a lot of jobs the "cloud" is just someone else's computer. As an Infrastructure Automation Engineer you will be hands-on with the hardware, tools, code and services that make the cloud happen at global scale. You will be part of a team responsible for the design, implementation, and improvement of systems, services and processes that deploy, update, and maintain infrastructure supporting the fDigital cloud. In collaboration with platform engineering teams, you will be responsible for ensuring that our operations are scalable and continuous, employing innovative methods for rapid provisioning and deployment of infrastructure, and advancing reliable monitoring, management, and reporting solutions. Responsibilities Evaluate existing and new tools and frameworks to support our UI/UX needs Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to augment API-driven processes with frontend tools and dashboards Provide peer review for team members and cross-functional colleagues Participate in ensuring system monitoring, alerting, and reporting is transparent and understandable including uptime, performance, capacity, and utilization Embrace documentation and demonstration Required Skills & Experience 5+ years of hands-on frontend development experience with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript including Vue.js, React, Angular or similar with a BA/BS degree or equivalent background 10+ years in industry Contributing to UI/UX design and improvement for new and existing projects Reviewing, revising and enhancing existing code bases Ability to work with end-users and other stakeholders, converting users' verbal requirements into actionable work items Agile management of frequent, iterative releases leveraging CI/CD pipelines (gitlab/github/ jenkins, etc) Desired Background Experience with infrastructure management, capacity planning and monitoring/reporting related projects for large scale IaaS and/or Enterprise data centers Comfortable working in distributed, remote teams across multiple time zones a plus Familiarity working with containers and API driven services BA/BS in Computer Science preferred, or equivalent experience (advanced degrees preferred) RESPONSIBILITIES Able to identify inefficient processes and procedures, and introduce automation to improve. Analyzes data critical to capacity forecasting, asset management and procurement. Assist IT managers and IT senior management with planning and reporting. Ensure that the technical environment is properly maintained and correctly designed. Identify performance issues and oversee the development and correct use of tools to resolve these problems. Leads the design of the computing infrastructure, working closely with architects on project design and technical direction. Mentor less experienced team members. Provides expertise in cross-functional and intra-departmental efforts, interfacing with consultants and architects. Strong understanding and competence in virtual computing environment.

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