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Client is looking for a Data Center Operations Team Lead with 5+ years of experience in a like role. This person needs to understand the unique challenges and identify opportunities to leverage the company's data center and office server/storage environment. The position will:
- Take operational ownership of the New Jersey/Texas data center infrastructure and its associated components and services (Wintel servers, Citrix, Linux, Storage, backups, etc.).
- Take ownership of our cloud operations in AWS and Azure. (Strong cloud operations experience in AWS and/or Azure MUST be there!)
- Participate in enterprise level projects from a data center and cloud perspective.
- Perform necessary analysis of the data center infrastructure and contribute to the design of the architecture, integration and installation of the DC infrastructure.
- Perform necessary analysis of the cloud infrastructure and contribute to the design of the architecture, integration and implementation.
- Manage relationships and work with 3rd party vendors to escalate issues when appropriate.
- Ensure capacity planning is in place and reviewed on a regular basis with the Team Leader and Fareportal Management. Coordinate and work collaboratively with other departments in order to understand and meet business requirements.
- Create and maintain documentation for all Fareportal infrastructure environments, including data center, cloud, on premise, etc.
- Contribute to disaster recovery plans and initiates routine review and testing of DR plans where applicable.
- Participate in evaluation of 3rd party vendor proposals.
- Take proactive approach in provisioning extra capacity to meet needs or determines more analysis is required to determine types of usage.
- Desire to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
Strong troubleshooting skills:
- Capacity planning
- Solution designing
- Project deployment and time management
- Strong knowledge of data center technologies (Wintel servers, Linux servers, Citrix, Storage, backups, etc)
Experience with automation tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, etc.
Implement, secure, scale and troubleshoot a global, multi-cloud cloud platform and products.
Stay current on technologies and best practice designs, proper implementations, high-performance optimizations, and self-service troubleshooting skills.
As a team, create runbooks, process, policies and "Infrastructure as Code” recipes to build scalable, fault-tolerant, and resilient networks for product and operations teams.
Accelerate the transformation from datacenter-centric design patterns to immutable, automated, highly-available and a zero-trust cloud-based infrastructure.
With the team, design cloud-native privileged account management solutions in the cloud for key management, service account and secrets management, rotation and event response.
Implement and monitor the security controls and performance metrics of the cloud network layer, including resiliency checks and failure prediction.
Previous participation in bug-hunting, pen tests, vulnerability assessments a plus
Good working knowledge of networking a plus
Willingness to be part of an on-call rotation when needed.
