Hybrid Role || Compute & Storage Infrastructure Solutions Engineer || Lake Forest, IL
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 6 years relevant experience in engineering and/or applications development 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 aligning solutions with business and IT strategies
- Experience leading, delegating, monitoring, and supporting the hands-on technical execution of work via internal and vendor-based/3rd party teams
- 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
- Knowledge of service life cycle management
- Experience with Microsoft Azure based infrastructure engineering
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and vSphere
- 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 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, backup/recovery, and data protection techniques such as air gapping
- Experience with physical and cloud networking concepts
Compute & Storage/Data Center Technical Expertise:
- Azure: Utilize extensive experience in designing and architecting infrastructure solutions in Azure to oversee build activities from system integrators and operations staff.
- Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM): Lead design, setup, and maintenance of data center hardware and facilities, including servers, storage systems, networking gear, and power/cooling systems.
- Virtualization Technology: Leverage expertise in virtualization platforms like VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Kubernetes, Nutanix, or KVM.
- Storage Solutions and Management: Manage a variety of storage architectures such as SAN, NAS, DAS, leverage expertise in configuring replication, data deduplication, backup/recovery, and data protection techniques such as air gapping.
- Security and Compliance:
- Incorporate security best practices to design solutions compliant with standards such as ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2, or NIST CSF.
- Develop and execute remediation plans for security vulnerabilities.