Design, deploy, and administer Windows based infrastructure
Input into Windows platform strategy and infrastructure roadmap
Prepare project plans, provide estimates for project tasks, and assist with prioritization in relation to capacity planning and performance analytics.
Collaborate with vendors, manage service providers and colleagues.
Oversee operations, establish process and standard operating procedures
Be the last line defense and escalation point for high severity production incidents
Build OS images, patch bundles, scripts and automation
Build CI/CD Pipelines
Write code in PowerShell, Python/Ruby/Go and desired state for Chef/Ansible
Working Environment:
Fully Remote (in the US) or hybrid in NYC Metro
New team in a new engineering function. Plan for unexpected and for opportunities to set standards / policies. Also plan for frequent involvement in day-to-day incidents (operations) until you mature the environment.
Global organization with colleagues from overseas and work engagements outside of core business hours
Basic Qualifications
5+ years in a similar role
Ability to clearly communicate orally and in writing with engineers, vendors, managers, business, clients.
Ability to write standard operating procedures, documentation, strategy documents and roadmaps
2+ years of experience with AWS/Azure (EC2, S3, AMI, EBS, IAM, VPC)
5+ years of experience with VMware based virtualization
Comfortable in several scripting languages (PowerShell, Python, Ruby, Go, etc).
Preferred Qualifications:
Good understanding of centralized configuration management, orchestration, and infrastructure as code techniques (Terraform)
Experience with CI/CD tools and techniques (Jenkins)
Running containers in Windows environment
Experience with Observability / Monitoring tooling - Datadog, Splunk, ELK
Ability to write GPO
Experience with running AD
Good understanding of networking protocols including switching technologies, routing fundamentals, firewalls, IP subnets, firewalling, load balancing