Responsibilities
- Producing detailed technical systems designs
- Implementation planning and execution for the deployment and operations of large-scale, distributed applications and solutions across a global infrastructure
- Establishing the technical deployment solutions for all applications and associated support systems, software and infrastructure within GPO Platform Technologies
- Setting standards for systems designs
- Establishing best practices
- Driving systems engineering capabilities into GPO projects and programs
- Working closely with application architects, designers and operational staff to ensure all products and services are implemented for optimum operational efficiency and in accordance with Platform Technologies systems standards and practices
Requirements
- Extensive and demonstrable experience in producing detailed technical systems designs, implementation planning and execution for the deployment and operations of large-scale, distributed applications and solutions across a global infrastructure, with particular focus on the public cloud
- Experience with Win and Linux operating systems
- Experience with physical and virtual server technologies
- Hosting in datacenters and various public and private cloud service providers and use of their various service offerings
- Supporting a range of desktop and mobile applications
- Use of service-oriented technologies and solutions
- Documentation Skills: Technical implementation, process/workflows and diagrams
- Cloud security: Experience using AWS: IAM and Directory Service, Config, Security Groups, VPC's, Subnets and VPN IPsec Site2Site and the equivalent services in Azure
- General Security knowledge for the next: Linux (Selinux) and Win security, Middleware (Apache, PHP, Tomcat, JBoss and Fuse), and java applications (Security side)
- General knowledge for WAF, DDoS and Penetration test tools
- Experience working with tools for log analysis and alert triggering; and connecting them to different monitoring tools (ELK, AWS CloudWatch, Azure OMS and SCOM)
- Clear understanding in DevOps philosophy, infrastructure as a code and the application automation part
- General understanding of agile and scrum
- Working knowledge of GIT, Bitbucket, AWS ECR, Nexus revision/source code management systems
- Working in ticket-drive workflow environments, e.g. Jira, Service Desk Plus, ServiceNow, etc.
Nice to Have
- AWS certifications desirable
- RedHat or any Linux certification is desirable
- MS (MCITP, MCSE) and VMWare certifications desirable