Infrastructure Engineer

Infrastructure Engineer

The Infrastructure Engineer proactively and holistically participates in and supports architecture/engineering activities that guide the development and management of technical and infrastructure solutions. These solutions enable the organization's future-state business capabilities and drive the organization's targeted business outcomes. Technologies include data center, infrastructure, cloud, mobile, AI, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, edge computing, and immersive experiences technologies. In addition, the Infrastructure Engineer creates deliverables that help develop target-state guidance (reusable standards, guidelines, individual parts, platforms, and configurations) for evolving the technical infrastructure across the enterprise to enable business strategy and deliver targeted business outcomes.

Tasks and responsibilities include working with peers to analyze business strategy and trends and change requirements in other enterprise architecture viewpoints to derive the future state technology architecture. This includes defining the requirements, principles, and models that guide technology decisions for the enterprise. The Infrastructure Engineer analyzes the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt and recommends solutions for improvement. Additionally, the Infrastructure Engineer leads the analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise and the enterprise technology architecture.

The Infrastructure Engineer collaborates with technical subject matter experts and peers to develop technology architecture that enables and drives new business capabilities and operating models. The role drives digital innovation by leveraging innovative new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and transform the existing core technology base and IT estate. The Infrastructure Engineer defines high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the future and current state and understands technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.

The Infrastructure Engineer guides technology investment decisions based on analysis and evaluation to drive targeted business outcomes. The role assists with designing the governance, assurance, and standards activities associated with ensuring enterprise technology architecture compliance of projects and products. The Infrastructure Engineer participates in the research, evaluation, and selection of software technology and product standards and the design of standard configurations. The Infrastructure Engineer facilitates technology implementation and modification activities, particularly for new or shared infrastructure solutions.

The Infrastructure Engineer consults on application or infrastructure development projects to harmonize systems or infrastructure with the enterprise technology architecture and identifies when it is necessary to modify the enterprise technical architecture to accommodate immediate or future project needs. The role creates and delivers working, production-ready reference implementations that can be leveraged easily by agile teams. The Infrastructure Engineer works closely with the product managers, product owners, and peers to enable infrastructure agility, scalability, and resilience to support required product needs throughout the product lifecycle.

The Infrastructure Engineer collaborates with business constituents, other team members, project teams, and staff in various IT functional areas as needed to fulfill the responsibilities described above. The role documents necessary enterprise technology architecture design and analysis work, possibly including project postmortem documentation and metric collection. Designing, deploying, and managing containerized infrastructure using Kubernetes (K8s), including cluster architecture, node management, and workload orchestration are also part of the responsibilities. Developing and maintaining Helm charts for application deployment and configuration management across multiple environments, architecting and implementing GitOps workflows using ArgoCD for continuous deployment and infrastructure-as-code management, designing and implementing secrets management solutions using Vault for secure credential storage and rotation across enterprise infrastructure, configuring and managing Akamai content delivery and edge computing services for optimized global content distribution and DDoS protection are also included.

Minimum education is a Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent industry experience. Certifications in Infrastructure discipline, i.e., Amazon or Cloud certifications are strongly desired. Minimum experience includes 3+ years of design and implementation experience in IT, with deep knowledge in infrastructure and network design, cloud technologies, and active directory and protocols. Exposure to multiple, diverse technical configurations, technologies, and processing environments is required. Hands-on experience with network deployment, management, monitoring, and network analytics tools is also necessary.