IT Infrastructure Engineer

Description

The IT Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of secure, scalable, and resilient enterprise architecture (EA). The IT Infrastructure Engineer functions as part of an EA team and directly impacts the design and implementation of IT solutions and systems to support company-wide business applications across cloud and on-premises infrastructure. The position may directly impact the Company’s business objectives when those objectives are dependent upon the performance of the Company’s enterprise architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Modifies and implements the Company’s enterprise architecture, ensuring that the IT infrastructure is technically sound, consistent with strategic goals, and conforms to required internal and external standards;
• Assists in determining the gaps between the current and the target architecture and developing plans for the transitioning to target architecture;
• Adheres to the policies and principles which guide technology decisions for the enterprise architecture;
• Identifies opportunities to improve enterprise-level systems to support business processes and utilize emerging technologies;
• Assists in the development of reference models of the enterprise and works with others in maintaining the information in designated corporate repositories;
• Participates in driving technical integration across the enterprise by participating in test planning, validation, and reviews;
• Assists in evaluating the impact of enterprise architectural products and services on IT investments, business operations, stakeholder satisfaction, and other outcomes;
• In conjunction with other IT professionals and at the direction of the IT Infrastructure Manager, participates in governance and portfolio management activities associated with ensuring compliance with the enterprise architecture;
• Assess the state of complex and varied IT architectures;
• Assist in the development and deployment of the most appropriate architectural framework including the proper documentation of the enterprise infrastructure;
• Executes work assigned to an EA team (IT Infrastructure Engineers) and implements final solutions after production sign-off;
• Applies information security/ information assurance policies, principles, and practices to all components of the enterprise architecture;
• Adhere to company operational and personnel policies and procedures;
• Assists in incident response efforts related to information security threat events;
• Maintains system resilience through the deployment and management of disaster recovery resources, tools, and methods;
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Skills:

Knowledge of, and skill in applying:

• IT service management concepts, principles, methods, and practices;
• IT systems development life cycle management concepts;
• Enterprise architectural principles, methods, and practices; sufficient to participate in the deployment of Company enterprise architectural goals, objectives, plans, and policies;
• Enterprise federated single sign-on and identity provisioning for applications;
• Administration of public cloud infrastructure platforms at enterprise scale;
• Management of enterprise security platforms and public key infrastructure (PKI);
• Automation of IT and business processes using PowerShell;
• Fundamental administration and navigation of databases and database platforms.

Mastery of:

• Networking concepts, including routing/switching;
• Hybrid public cloud infrastructure concepts and techniques;
• Cybersecurity methods and concepts, especially as applied to IT infrastructure;
• Maintaining directory services;
• Creation and maintenance of technical documentation;
• Executing actions to ensure the implementation of networks that support mission requirements;
• Oral and written communications techniques; sufficient to perform routine and recurring assignments related to enterprise architectural design, implementation, and maintenance.

Ability to manage:

• Amazon Web Services (or equivalent public cloud) resources and platforms at scale through Control Tower and AWS Organizations;
• Infrastructure security tooling such as Palo Alto Firewalls and Microsoft Defender XDR;
• Microsoft 365 Enterprise services including Entra ID, Exchange Online, Purview, and other components;
• Routing and switching for multi-site, multi-region networks;
• Active Directory Domain Services, including schema management, domain/forest management, and other advanced directory management tasks;