Principal Infrastructure Engineer Job Description
Principal infrastructure engineer
provides advanced Windows Server administration and maintenance to ensure optimal performance of server hardware and operating system.
Principal Infrastructure Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Security Device/System administration – RSA, Tripwire
Provide senior leadership across the Corporation with technology updates and forecasts, serving as a trusted advisor to Corporate leaders Sponsors
Develop ServiceNow software solutions using JavaScript, Jelly, Web Services, XML, HTML, CSS
Serve as Technical Lead for an Agile team that embraces TDD and CI/CD concepts
Actively partner with the R&D teams which are delivering services to our infrastructure in order to gather the requirements of their service to live within this infrastructure
Provide guidance to the R&D teams which are delivering services to our infrastructure as to the best practices and architecture which will allow their services to operate most effectively within our operational environment
Partner with other teams in infrastructure engineering, such as Site Reliability, Customer Centric Engineering, Capacity Planning, Monitoring, Security, Storage, Network, Release Services and others to translate operationalize these requirements in our infrastructure
Influence product roadmaps for supporting services in infrastructure engineering to allow for easier operalization of the customer requirements, occasionally participating in the execution of those roadmaps for minor changes
Orchestrate disparate existing processes for deployment of systems vs apps and make them scalable across entire infrastructure
Automate creation and implementation of puppet modules and manifests to achieve scalability across existing system deployment procedures
Principal Infrastructure Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Principal Infrastructure Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PKI, PACP/MACP/LACP, NASSCO, CCNP, WAN, LAN, DHCP, HPNA, AWS, SSL
Education for Principal Infrastructure Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the principal infrastructure engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technical, Business, Software Engineering, Education, Design, Electrical Engineering, Management, Physics
Skills for Principal Infrastructure Engineer
Desired skills for principal infrastructure engineer include:
Hardware
Operating Systems
Specialist technical area
System Management
Enterprise server hardware
Operating System
Active Directory
Change Management processes and tools
Clustering and dependent infrastructure products
Architecture frameworks like TOGAF will be highly regarded
Desired experience for principal infrastructure engineer includes:
Knowledge of EMC, NetApp, Hitachi VSP or other enterprise storage
Knowledge of Fiber Channel, SAN/NAS technologies and protocols including CIFS and NFS
Experience and knowledge of UNIX (SUN, AIX, Linux) and Windows
Ability to work within a team alone and work to deadlines
Work closely with development teams to resolve Product issues
10+ years of experience in a large Microsoft Windows environment (Windows 2008/2012 R2)
Principal Infrastructure Engineer Examples
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Principal Infrastructure Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of principal infrastructure engineer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for principal infrastructure engineer
- Build an onboarding process and plan for business units and internal Information Solutions & Technology
- Create training materials and hold training sessions as part of onboarding process
- Create runbook documentation for the support and maintenance of the patch management environment
- Provide operational support for the patch management environment
- Managing the planning, design and implementation of highway / infrastructure projects
- Leading a portfolio of projects, ensuring delivery to client requirements of standards, programme and budget
- Leading on bid proposals and submissions
- Ensuring compliance with corporate governance processes
- Active involvement in business development
- Developing BIM capability & leading implementation
Qualifications for principal infrastructure engineer
- Knowledgeable of systems auditing implementation and controls
- VMware products including ESXi, vCenter/vSphere, Fusion, and Workstation experience with common ESXi problems with virtual machines
- Proficient in financial and operational analysis including total cost of ownership, sensitivity and goal seeking analysis
- BA/BS in computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer engineering, electronics or equivalent experience required
- Relevant experience, ideally with a consultant in development infrastructure for residential, commercial and leisure sites
- Experienced in supervising and developing staff
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of principal infrastructure engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for principal infrastructure engineer
- Serve as a SME to diagnose and resolve problems in multiple storage environments with expertise around EMC Isilon, ECS and NetApp
- Serve as SME to diagnose and resolve problems in hyperconverged infrastructure working with technologies such as Nutanix, VXrail, vBlock, etc…
- Assist in the development of technology roadmaps, covering lifecycle planning, capacity planning, obsolescence, availability of support, major version upgrades and vendor roadmaps
- Serve as a SME to diagnose and resolve problems in, storage (object, block, file) and hyper-converged infrastructure
- Perform root cause analysis to quickly recover from service interruptions, and to prevent recurring problems in the environment
- Analyze and forecast capacity for the IT environment, provide growth/capacity projections and make recommendations to leadership
- Lead the effort in designing the E2E performance framework and writing performance tests for various E2E user flows
- Identify real-world E2E OTT Video use cases & design/create performance test lab simulations
- Design, develop & execute test cases to evaluate system performance for existing & new features
- Responsible for creating and executing performance evaluation and improvement/remediation plans for various web applications
Qualifications for principal infrastructure engineer
- To be able to forecast resource requirements
- To understand and have experience of local government development criteria and policies
- To be able to produce and have knowledge in the design of highways, access roads and infrastructure of projects including the design of road geometry, earthworks, pavements, drainage and underground services
- To have experience in the preparation of Contract Drawings and Specifications and the negotiation of Section 38, 278, 104 and 106 Agreements
- You love giving and receiving code reviews
- Lots of engineers know their powers of two or the first 9 digits of pi
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Principal Infrastructure Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a principal infrastructure engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for principal infrastructure engineer
- Work with multiple stakeholders from product, development, dev-ops & QA teams to identify performance requirements & orchestrate validation of these requirements
- Mentor & train junior resources in performance test engineering and lead them through completion of tasks for each sprint
- Design and implement infrastructure technology solutions
- Produce and maintain design specifications and other documentation as required
- Work with stakeholders validate business requirements
- Manage a infrastructure lab for the Enterprise
- Civil/transportation engineering experience in either or both local government or consultancy practice
- A first degree in a relevant discipline, Civil Engineering, or equivalent
- Current membership of a relevant professional institution such as ICE, CIHT or CILT and hold incorporated or chartered status (or likely to achieve this status in near future)
- Experience of planning and designing cycle projects (feasibility, planning, outline design, stakeholder management) is desirable
Qualifications for principal infrastructure engineer
- Strong development skills in Go/C/C++ is a plus
- Experience developing software to autonomously manage infrastructure projects pertaining to Linux platforms
- Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, and HTTPS protocols
- 5+ years of experience with RHEL Linux/CentOS/UNIX is a plus
- A degree in a relevant subject and membership of a relevant professional institution
- Existing U.S. Security Clearance (Secret) required
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Principal Infrastructure Engineer Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of principal infrastructure engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for principal infrastructure engineer
- Develop specifications for independent hardware vendors
- Measure and validate hardware components meet our performance requirements
- Define and manage the project tasks and resource requirements coordinating project staff including chairing meetings, financial reporting line manager duties as and when required
- Provide direction and support to project team managing and reporting the progress of the project to all stakeholders
- Recommend, architect, and design the Telematics computing solution and infrastructure
- Work with multiple vendors for services and escalation of issues
- Provide monthly metrics and operational analysis on performance and utilization
- Review and recommend innovative changes to improve infrastructure and systems performance
- Maintain high SLA for end users through quick resolution of issues
- Build & Test complex solutions on the Blade Center and Cloud Platforms
Qualifications for principal infrastructure engineer
- Significant experience in enterprise data protection architectures (tape, tapeless, cloud, object storage, ), concepts (virtualization, archive, deduplication, ), and solutions (Networker, TSM, NetBackup, CommVault)
- Critical thinking and analytical problem solving skills – able to resolve problems, examine opportunities for process improvements and formulate an implementation approach
- MS Load Balancer/F5 Load Balancer/Nginx/HAProxy/Windows Failover Clustering
- Must have working knowledge of PowerShell and VBScript
- Ability to prepare fee proposals based on number of hours to complete activities
- To be commercially aware and able to lead a team of 5-10 engineers and technicians, to programme workloads and successfully deliver projects to time, budget and quality
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a principal infrastructure engineer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for principal infrastructure engineer
- Acts as the technical subject matter expert and sounding board for questions and decisions related to DNS and other core infrastructure services
- Takes an active role in technical community organizations and related knowledge-sharing opportunities
- Maintains the highest level of knowledge of current and emerging technology
- Has industry-wide connections aware of industry trends and innovations
- Can set the model and tone for developing engineers
- Is a 'bridge-builder' who establishes relationships between different functional teams
- Has helped shape organizational goals and objectives and can proactively respond to higher-level business drivers
- Has written publications or created patents
- Comfortable presenting to large groups and is an expert at explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Directs the identification, evaluation, and recommendation of solutions using advanced architectures and technologies that support the business and technology strategies
Qualifications for principal infrastructure engineer
- Experience with Chef Automation – authoring cookbooks
- Ability to work amongst a team in time critical situations individually to complete projects and personal development work
- Bachelor's Degree (preferably in Computer Science, MIS or another technical field) or 10 years of equivalent work experience
- Minimum 5 years’ overall experience in technical roles
- Minimum 3 years’ experience managing Windows desktops, Servers and Point-of-Sale systems in distributed environments
- Minimum 3 years’ experience working with systems management tools such as Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), Altiris, IBM BigFix