Principal Infrastructure Architect

*WILL SPONSOR H1B*

*Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote*

A prestigious financial firm is in the search for a Principal Infrastructure Architect. This role will focus on the overall on-prem infrastructure (Servers/storage) architecture and support. This role will work with 25 infrastructure administrators/engineers within the Linux, Windows, Virtualization, and storage teams and will train/transition them to support AWS and CICD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for optimization, documentation, and support of the infrastructure components of company hosted in the on-premises data centers and the AWS cloud.
• Take ownership of the DevOps discipline and be responsible for managing all Level 2 server/infrastructure related issues in AWS.
• Responsible for monitoring server and storage performance in On-prem and AWS
• Responsible for CI/CD pipeline build, improvement, and management
• Support and troubleshoot infrastructure issues in production environments.
• Evaluate new tools, technologies, and processes to improve speed, efficiency, and scalability of continuous integration environments.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing Linux, Windows, VMWARE and Storage on prem environments.
• Experience in Containers and Kubernetes.
• Good understanding of how different infrastructure components interact in a distributed environment.
• Ability to investigate and perform Root Cause Analysis on reported issues and suggest workarounds before implementing the permanent fix
• Partner with different infrastructure and development teams
• Experience in Linux and Windows OS
• Experience with VMWARE
• Experience with EMC and Netapp Storage
• Programming/Scripting experience in languages like Java, Bash, Python
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools (examples - GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker, Compose, K8s)
• Experience with cloud technologies and migrations
• Working knowledge of DevOps tools. eg, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipeline etc.
• Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, EC2, S3, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM etc.
• Experience developing and delivering technical solutions using On-prem infrastructure and public cloud service providers like Amazon, Google, etc.
• Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk
• Experience with RESTful APIs and JSON RPC
• Experience following Git workflows
• B.S. in Computer Science or (preferred) M.S. in Computer Science or Information Systems
• Minimum 10+ years of experience in Compute (Linux/Windows) administration
• Minimum 5 years leading projects
• ITIL Certification(s)