We are hiring Cloud Infrastructure and Security Engineers for an Investment Company!
Job Details:
- Fully Remote
- 6-month contract, possible extension
- W2 Employment
- Illinois based candidates are highly preferred but open to nearby areas.
- Payrate negotiable upon interview
Job Description:
- This role is responsible for managing the firm’s Enterprise Infrastructure and providing enablement solutions which include Microsoft Cloud (Azure), M365 Suite, Digital Workplace enablement, and integrated application systems. Infrastructure availability, resiliency, and innovation is at the core of our Technology.
- We are looking for a candidate who also has significant experience with supporting technologies such as Cisco networking switching & routing, load-balancing, disaster recovery, and Azure infrastructure.
- In addition, this individual will be part of the Security Operations team supporting all aspects of our Cyber Security Program. Security will be a big part of this role through all aspects of infrastructure deployment with responsibilities also including patching and vulnerability remediation. The organization promotes creative thinking and looks to improve our technology and processes through consistent interactions with business stakeholders.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Responsible for implementation and support of Corporate Enterprise Messaging and surrounding systems (i.e. MS Teams, MS Exchange Online, Mimecast, and Symantec DLP email servers), Intune App Policies
- Lead in the planning, design, implementation, and support of Cisco switching and routing implementations (protocols like BGP, EIGRP, etc.)
- Participate in the planning, design, implementation, and support of Azure Cloud and on-prem infrastructure.
- Experience with design and deployments of Server farms and service environments in the Cloud (i.e Linux, MSFT, IaaS, PaaS)
- Maintenance and evolution of Identity management (i.e. Active Directory, Cisco ISE, Intune)
- Participate in the planning, design, implementation, and support (including patching and config changes) of our VMWare infrastructure.
- Experience with DR and replication technologies such as Azure ASR
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science
- Strong knowledge of Active Directory (Azure), Storage, M365 suite
- Minimum 5 years’ technical solutions implementation, architecture, evaluation, and investigation in Azure (with AWS also is a plus)
- Experience with on premise data center to Cloud migrations for infrastructure and applications
- Experience with Infrastructure monitoring and SRE practices
- Intermediate knowledge of VMWare (HA, DRS, vCenter) and building Windows/Linux infrastructure
- Exposure to several infrastructure technologies including:
- Cisco UCS, ISE, and Wireless
- EMC SAN’s
- Checkpoint Firewalls
- MDM
- Various security technologies
- Experience using Confluence, JIRA, and Service Now systems
- Ability to solve complex business process through technology solutions in Prod, UAT, and DEV
- environments
- Proven ability to self-manage small to medium sized projects and proven excellent communication (written and verbal) skills
- Self-motivated with the ability to effectively multi-task while possessing a strong attention to detail
Preferred:
- Experience with supporting Big Data, analytics, DevOps in the Cloud
- Incident management exposure and participation
- MS Azure Cloud Certifications and data center migrations
- Hands on experience with automation tools/or programming (i.e. PowerShell, Terraform, Chef, Kubernetes, Puppet, Python, Ansible)
- Working knowledge of enterprise Storage (EMC), Load-balancing (F5), and DNS solutions
- Working knowledge of MDM (Mobile Device Management) and Identity Management Solutions
- Demonstrated positive direct and indirect influence on team(s)