Infrastructure Engineer - Milwaukee, United States - Vaco

Description

No 3rd party company candidates or candidates that require sponsorship now or in the future.

We are hiring a Infrastructure Engineer responsible for maintaining a robust, modern IT infrastructure to ensure 24/7 production capability with a hybrid office workforce utilizing primarily Microsoft products, emphasizing Microsoft 365.

This a contract to hire position that will require to be onsite some days in our downtown Milwaukee office.
Salary conversion between $85,000 to $100,000.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Server Management

• Manage the existing infrastructure environment to provide 24/7 operating capability and offer and implement recommendations to improve uptime metrics.
• Design, deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot all network infrastructure components such as LANs, WANs, VPNs, Wi-Fi networks, servers, routers/firewalls, switches, and battery backups. May require off-hours work
• Maintain physical servers running a Hyper-V cluster with SAN-backed storage to provide a robust platform for a virtual machine-based operating environment.
• Lead administration of Active Directory, Group Policies, DHCP, DNS (internal and external), Microsoft 365, Azure AD, and Intune setup and configuration
• Perform proactive network monitoring as part of everyday activities to ensure optimum performance and act on real-time alerting of hardware failure.
• Contribute to infrastructure projects using agreed-upon budgets, schedules, and development standards.
• Develop and implement policies, procedures, and lifecycles related to infrastructure hardware and software.
• Build and maintain an IT knowledge base with thorough design and issue resolution documentation. Maintain network and systems diagrams.
• Administrate backup environment, including off-site retention and disaster recovery capabilities using Azure
• Document disaster recovery procedures for distribution to relevant departments
• Assist in annual disaster recovery planning and testing
• Update plans as needed to meet business needs or to account for changes in the environment
• Maintain or implement new access control lists for operating equipment
• Apply up-to-date firmware and software for infrastructure components to prevent security incidents
• Keep informed of new and emerging threats, evaluate the potential impact on business operations, and develop remediation steps if required
• Monitor infrastructure to assess baseline operations and detect potential intrusions
• Assist in the development and enforcement of incident response policies
• Analyze security risks and develop response procedures
• Assist in business security initiatives to reduce the likelihood or potential impacts of threats
• Collaborate with third-party managed security services platform

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience as a network/server administrator/engineer position for at least five years
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or other IT-related degree or similar relevant work experience
• Experience with HPE servers, Fortinet firewalls, Juniper switches with MIST, Extreme access points, Pure Storage SANs, and Rubrik backup systems.
• Experience with Hyper-V server virtualization, Windows Server 2012 and newer, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Microsoft 365 hybrid deployments, and Azure infrastructure/networking
• In-depth knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VPN, VLANs, Firewall ACLs, Wireless)
• Understanding of NIST Security Fundamentals
• Related certifications are a plus
• Experiencein writing documentation, policies, and procedures