Principal Infrastructure Design Engineer

Job Description

Responsible for leading the engineering of various and complex aspects of both physical and cloud hosted data center network infrastructure. Lead the analysis of current and future requirements to effectively design data center infrastructure, networking and telephony systems while determining design feasibility from both technical and economic perspectives. Develop and maintain technical standards, procedures and documentation in partnership with service partners as needed. Coordinate the compilation and analysis of operational data and directs proof of technology to establish standard for new designs or modifications to existing equipment, systems, or processes. As subject matter expert, partner and consult with varied technical, business, project and management staff to identify and plan, assess data center and cloud infrastructure designs, physical data center requirements and impacts and resolve complex design problems. 

    

What You’ll Do   

• Coordinate the planning and development of highly complex engineering designs in support of the implementation of network solutions.   

• Own and maintain technology currency and capacity planning in support of established SLAs. 

• Define hardware and software performance standards.  

• As cross functional, multi-disciplinary infrastructure SME, provide expertise and knowledge in emerging technologies with strategic technology vendors  

• Provide leadership in software and hardware licensing, financial and capacity activities that plan for the most efficient way to introduce and maintain datacenter technology within the environment. 

• Proactively provide information and ongoing consultation for IT and business areas as well as vendors directly or indirectly affected by the network or data center infrastructures. 

• Lead the detailed infrastructure design of larger and/or more complex internal projects collaborating with IT stakeholders, service owners and partners.  

• Provide operational readiness through the engineering, planning, coordination, and execution of performance and tuning analysis, systems support, incident and problem resolution, software installation, and upgrades. 

• Provide detailed guidance and consultation in solutioning more complex and/or high visibility production incidents when required. 

• Maintain appropriate standardized guidelines, work procedures and schedules for solution engineering within the data center environment to expedite workflow and ultimately improve efficiencies. 

• Build collaborative relationships with the broader architecture community to effectively maintain technical roadmaps and provide input into strategies and standards related to area of specialization. 

• Lead collaboration with vendors on infrastructure designs to ensure the final product is what was architected or designed. 

• Regularly act in a project lead capacity and/or represent the department on enterprise-wide project teams. 

• Organize and lead new technology briefings with IT and Enterprise leadership at varied leaders