BIG IP Systems Engineer at FastTek Global

NOT A C2C OPPORTUNITY

All Candidates must have a high level of knowledge of BIG IP, Certificate Management, Azure Cloud, and VM Ware.

Hybrid role – must be local to Dalton and the surrounding area. Must be able to work an on-call rotation, 2 weeks on-call every 12 weeks.

Essential Duties:

This position requires thought leadership, technical skills, and organizational influence.

Maintain Infrastructure – Support current CX & AX infrastructure environments

Produce and maintain proactive designs and plans that prioritize IT operational improvements

Maintain and optimize system options and configurations to include ongoing upgrades

Develop and execute performance analysis designs and plans

Project Support – Support improvements to our CX and AX initiatives

Participate regularly in business-oriented and technical projects, task forces, and status meetings, and become involved in business strategy discussions as early as possible

Support development teams during application development, quality assurance, user acceptance, staging and production

Provide architecture recommendations, debugging and problem-resolution assistance to the Infrastructure and Application development teams

Assist with research, testing, certification, and communication of new technology, services, applications, and utilities for platform technologies

Leading project development and coordination for specific technical projects.

Resiliency Support – Support the resiliency of the systems environments:

Maintain ongoing operational readiness to ensure ongoing infrastructure support

Perform troubleshooting and diagnostic tracing of running applications

Assist with instrumentation and observability functions by creating, configuring, and leveraging templates to proactively monitor and alert on system issues

Assist Level One and Level Two support to ensure knowledgebase, processes, and procedures are kept up to date

Provide scripting, workflows, and automation for the infrastructure environments

Manage incident identification, determination, isolation, and resolution

Design and build out strategies for support of emerging technologies

Preparation – Plan and execute according to documented guidelines

Perform all activities within the established plans and schedules

Ensure documented management approval is secured prior to making any changes to a production environment

Maintain current knowledge and skill levels appropriate to our Goals

Provide technical advice and assistance to our personnel

Follow the department’s Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulatory compliance requirements and follow all testing and verification guidelines

Configuration and Provisioning - Install, configure, deploy, migrate, maintain, patch and decommission infrastructure components

Distributed

Cloud (eg, Azure, AWS, GCP)

Servers (eg, Linux, Windows, Unix)

Instrumentation/Observability software (eg, Foglight, Solarwinds, Azure Monitor)

Successfully install, configure, and manage the Linux & Windows Operating Systems, including system patching, version updates, and daily maintenance needs

Successfully install, configure, and manage cloud solutions (VMs, PAAS, data entities and other solutions) to satisfy application needs

Successfully install, configure, and manage Application servers (Eg: Tomcat, JBoss, IIS)

Successfully install, configure, and manage Container environments

Create scripting to automate common tasks with languages such as PowerShell, python, Bash etc

Security (eg, Azure Sentinel, Azure Defender)

Documentation review and technical guidance on provisioning and configuration activities.