This opportunity is set up as a contract with opportunity to convert to full-time. The role is on-site 3 days per week in Lake Bluff, IL.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 6 years relevant experience OR a high school diploma or equivalent and 8 years relevant experience
- Experience effectively communicating with and advising non-technical senior business leaders and technical engineers as a technical subject matter/expert consultant, including experience leading service design and technical requirements gathering
- Demonstrated experience designing and deploying cloud and on-premises infrastructure solutions
- Experience with Microsoft Azure based infrastructure engineering
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and vSphere
- Experience leading, delegating, monitoring, and supporting the hands-on technical execution of work via internal and vendor-based/3rd party teams
- Experience with performance optimization
- Experience with Azure Blob Storage and NetApp Data storage solutions
- Experience designing and building high availability and Disaster Recovery solutions
- Experience researching new technologies, frameworks, and tools and securing support and approval via senior leadership and Enterprise Architecture
- Experience driving proof of concept and analyzing technical feasibility, project constraints, risk evaluation, and defining roadmaps for infrastructure technical services
- Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks and business standards
- Experience in the design, setup, and maintenance of data center hardware and facilities, including servers, storage systems, networking gear, and power/cooling systems leveraging infrastructure as code and scripting techniques
- Experience providing technical oversight for a variety of storage architectures such as SAN, NAS, DAS, including experience configuring replication, data deduplication, and backup/recovery.
- Experience aligning solutions with business and IT strategies
- Knowledge of service life cycle management
- Experience with physical and cloud networking concepts
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with AWS and Google Cloud
