Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Seattle, United States - firstPRO, Inc

Description

FirstPro is now accepting resumes for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer position based in Seattle, WA. This role will focus on designing, implementing and supporting implementations on the company's infrastructure. This is a contract to permanent hire role, and candidates must work on a 1099 basis during the contract period.

Candidates must be local to Seattle, as you will be required to work onsite multiple days per week.

Responsibilities

• Work with staff, contractors, third parties, cloud services providers, and vendors, to perform the installation, configuration, testing, monitoring, maintenance, and support of infrastructure that supports each line of business.
• Set the mission of the infrastructure organization to foster a business-oriented mind-set, driven by continual service improvements
• Do development of infrastructure sourcing strategy and provide executive oversight for strategic vendor and partner relationship management
• Ensure reliable 24/7 operations in partnership with peer teams by defining IT infrastructure architecture, as well as standards to include disaster recovery, security, storage, servers, monitoring, performance, and back-office systems
• Provide direction on which new technologies should be assimilated, integrated, and introduced by staying up to date on emerging technologies
• Interface with business stakeholders and other functional area leaders to define support initiatives and solutions for improving service efficiency and effectiveness
• Manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure and corporate Infrastructure policies
• Actively seeks opportunities for efficiencies and cost-effective technologies that reduce costs and optimize investments.
• Creates new and innovative infrastructure policies and procedures that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of individuals and teams.
• Provide regular infrastructure project status updates on schedule, budget, and deliverables.
• Manage and oversee the planning, design, implementation and documentation of all new infrastructure projects and upgrades to existing infrastructure.
• Develop standards and operational procedures that support current and future operational needs.
• Collaborates with the Head of IT to develop and manage the annual operating and capital expenditure budget to ensure it's consistent with the overall IT strategy and is within plan.
• Build a team-based environment that aligns with company values, ways of working, and competencies.
• Assist in recruiting and selection of the best IT talent to help optimize skills and experiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in IT infrastructure/systems administration or an equivalent combination of education and experience, including through military service will also be considered.
• Prior experience managing third party vendors.
• Experience planning and executing the migration of on-premise solutions to a hybrid, multi-cloud environment with an emphasis on AWS.
• On premise and in-cloud infrastructure projects from Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, and IBM products, and open source products.