Systems Engineer - Senior

Marriott International, Inc.: Senior Systems Engineer – Public Cloud (Multiple Positions) Bethesda, MD

DUTIES:
•    Ensure stability, integrity, and efficient operation of information systems and technologies that support core customer-facing and enterprise-facing products and platforms.
•    Serve as a subject matter expert in a complex array of full stack solutions.
•    Perform research, analysis, design, creation, and implementation of systems to meet current and future requirements.
•    Combine both software and systems engineering to build and operate large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems.
•    Work with engineering, application and enterprise/solution architects to develop and implement services, monitor, report and tune infrastructure platforms.
•    Develop full stack automation, infrastructure as code across Marriott public cloud platforms including Compute/Storage, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Container Platforms,
•    Middleware, Database, Business Intelligence, Tools and Automation through “Infrastructure As Code”.
•    Provides technical leadership, oversight, governance and direction for services related to Marriott solution delivery.
•    Provide and present status, analysis and reporting to internal stakeholders, Executive Management and Senior Leadership.
•    Train and/or mentor other team members, and peers as appropriate.
•    Identify opportunities to enhance the service delivery, operations and continual service improvement processes.
•    Develop implementation plans, test plans, and timelines for projects and tasks.
•    Responsible for project inception including requirements gathering and architecting, costs and chargeback modeling, infrastructure-as- code development and configuration
•    management.
•    Work with Enterprise Architecture to provide technology and cloud native service governance for technology steering committees, with cost and support directives.
•    Promote Marriott International Cloud Platform capabilities including Cloud Native Services for cost effective solutions against architecture.
•    Promote Containers-as-a-Service Kubernetes methodologies for orchestrated scheduling of portable containers across global cloud platforms.
•    Monitor and drive industry best practice Continuous Delivery principals for improvement of application and feature deployment velocity with minimal downtime.
•    Work with MI Security for governance and application of Tier0/1 Security tooling across the entire fleet of cloud virtual machines including automated OS, access, log, DDOS and code
•    monitoring and auditing.
•    Own relationships with tooling and Cloud vendors including Red Hat, Docker, Chef, Amazon, Google.
•    Coordination between onshore/offshore engineering and operations teams; handover and acceptance of L1/2 shared services Ops.

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree* in an engineering or computer science discipline followed by 7 years of progressively responsible information technology experience.

OR

Master’s degree or foreign equivalent degree* in an engineering or computer science discipline and 5 years of information technology experience.
*Any combination of education and experience that has been evaluated to be the equivalent of a U.S. Bachelor’s degree will be accepted.
Experience must include:
•    5 years of Linux experience
•    5 years of experience with Cloud technologies including Iaas/Paas/Saas deployments on Public Cloud and Cloud native services
•    5 years experience with OS scripting and automation
•    5 years experience in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) modeling including infrastructure as code development (Terraform or similar) or infrastructure engineering at enterprise scale
•    5 years experience in automated configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
•    5 years experience with cloud computing technology and its concepts (AWS, Azure, AliCloud, GCP) and/or virtualized (VMWare, OpenStack)
•    5 years experience in container operations (Docker, OpenShift Enterprise, GKE, EKS)
•    5 years of experience with Orchestration (Docker, Racher, Kubernetes)
•    4 years of experience operating in an agile scrum environment.
•    4 years of experience in a delivery focused environment delivering incrementally at a fast pace in 2-week sprints

Any suitable combination of education, training and/or experience will be accepted.

100% remote; position may be performed from anywhere within the U.S. Travel to Marriott HQ in Bethesda, MD at least once per quarter  

The salary range for this position is $126,500 to $168,400 annually. In addition to the annual salary, the position will be eligible to receive an annual bonus.

Washington Applicants Only: Employees will accrue 0.04616 PTO balance for every hour wo