Sr Engineer, Systems Infrastructure

Job Description

Job Title: Sr Engineer, Systems Infrastructure

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When you're part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll do important work. Surrounded by collaborative colleagues, you'll have the support and opportunities that only a global leader can give you. Our respected, growing organization has an exceptional strategy for the near term and beyond. Take your place on our strong team, and help us make significant contributions to the world.

Responsibilities:

• Perform hands-on IT infrastructure support in large enterprise environments including system administration, cloud infrastructure, system patching, supporting upgrades and resolution of production problems in a timely manner for operational systems.
• Maintain, upgrade, and implement improvements to the VMWare vCenter / ESXi / VxRail / vSAN / SAN / NAS infrastructure. Maintain VM templates for building servers in the virtual environment.
• Manage available virtual and storage resources within the infrastructure environment.
• Developing and executing deployment packages for deploying, automating, monitoring, and supporting high-availability Windows / Linux servers and applications in cloud hosted environments (Amazon Web Services).
• Develop scripts and utilize industry standard tools for Windows system automation for creation and update of virtual machines using PowerShell, Python, and overall Linux shell script.
• Highly skilled and knowledgeable in industry-standard tools, architecting systems with automation for security, scalability, reliability, and performance
• Troubleshooting issues (backup failures, system accessibility problems, poor system performance, network connectivity problems, file transfer failures, high resource utilization scenarios, unanticipated system reboots, etc.)
• Assist with maintenance & of departmental documentation (e.g. run books, policies, procedures, processes)
• Provide off hours support as needed.
• Reporting to IT Manager of infrastructure in country and align to regional CIS team.

• Bachelor's Degree (Information Technology or related is preferred but not required) or 5+ years relevant and equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5+ years' experience building and maintaining system automation and batch/shell scripting.
• Minimum 5+ years' experience with Windows / Linux Server / VMware / Storage / Cloud Infrastructure administration in co-located facilities, managed virtual, and/or in public and private clouds.
• Experience with PKI infrastructure and certificate management

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science, or a graduate technical degree
• Advanced experience with:
  • Windows Server administration
  • Standard system administrator functions such as server build outs, monitoring, patch/security updates, antivirus, backups, restores, asset management, 24X7 support, pager duty, etc.
  • VxRail & vSAN administrator
  • Storage & backup administration
• Expert experience with deployments using:
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS), IAAS
  • Windows Power Shell
• Experience working in cloud systems and virtual machine environments.
• Understanding of provisioning and hypervisor platforms like VMWare to deploy virtual servers.
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) or equivalent
• Knowledge of high availability and disaster recovery methods for complex applications deployed in multiple regions.
• Creative problem-solving skills that require minimum supervisory prompting
• Documentation skills that use tools like Visio, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Excel.
• Great communication skills both written and oral, polite and friendly manner, both written and verbal in English (need to involve regional / global team for support & project)
• Ownership of tasks and projects with 100% follow through to completion.
• Ability to follow process and create process where there is none.