Infrastructure Engineer - Nastech Global

Job Title: Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Irvin, TX and Charlotte, NC(Hybrid)

Job Type: Contract W2

Skills:

Middleware

• Infrastructure design and build experience (they use Visio for their designs)
• Middleware experience
• Experience with containers/cloud architecture

Provide expert level guidance on Cloud design decisions, standards, and operational practices
Be an active member of Cloud center of excellence to define and govern best practices in Cloud platforms engineering, cloud operations, cloud-native application development, and cloud platform governance
Plan and implement the selection of new cloud services and tools to enable cloud roadmap
Drive discussions in architecture review board; develop platform architecture artifacts and influence on architectural decisions
Maintain blueprints and reference implementations of cloud products
Partner with Information Security teams to engineer secure app patterns and have "security from the get-go" model into Cloud platforms
Work with teams that have high application complexity to provide guidance on cloud platforms, and escalate risks and issues as appropriate
Communicate problems and challenges to drive discussions across key stakeholders engineering, operations, developers, and leadership
Experience in delivering large scale distributed enterprise platforms with focus on performance, scale, security, and reliability
Experience in DevOps and GitOps models with infra-as-code, config-as-code, policy-as-code, etc. with technologies such as Terraform
Experience with on-premises based Private Cloud and Public Cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud
Have deep knowledge of web protocols, Linux and/or Windows operating systems, and AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud and/or Google APIs and environments
Experience in native CSP orchestration stacks (e.g., Azure ARM templates, AWS CloudFormation, Google Cloud Deployment Manager)
Experience in container-native technologies such as Kubernetes, container native virtualization, network, etc.
Experience in cloud-native logging, monitoring and operations tools Splunk, Prometheus, etc.
Experience with containers related technologies and CICD tools Jenkins, pipelines, container repos, etc.
Experience in infra-automation tools and general programming languages Ansible, Java, python, etc.
Must be expert level in one or more of the following, with familiarity with the others:
Cloud IAM
Cloud network and security design
Cloud IaaS design, including image creation and management using tools such as Packer.
Native cloud services (i.e., CosmosDB, BigTable, etc.)
Cloud-native Kubernetes services (AKS, GKE, EKS) design and implementation
Red Hat Openshift public cloud design and implementation
Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, CloudFormation, Salt
Experience in Agile development practices and test-driven development
Demonstrated excellence in organizational, leadership, communication, coaching, and troubleshooting skills