Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage day to day operations of highly virtualized Linux compute infrastructure

• Provide status reporting (availability, performance capacity utilization)

• Create and maintain process & policy documentation

• Drive automation of Linux systems

• Develop Linux server team to align with the company's future technology roadmap.

• Forecast System demands and recommend upgrades, expansions and reconfiguration

• Resource planning

• Provide input into strategic compute infrastructure plans and help drive alignment with application teams, security and business

• Collaborate with application support teams to drive improvements in communication, architecture, and performance

• Act as a liaison for customer relations and represent server teams

• Manage enterprise server environment related projects

• Lead audit and security responsibilities that include routine reviews and reporting of technology policies and security compliance

• Ensure all server systems comply with the company's regulatory requirements

• Work with auditors to remediate and closeout all remediation, regulatory, and audit findings

• Draft proposals to tackle technology challenges and work with vendors to provide best solution at optimal cost

• Responsible for change management process for server infrastructure

• Use good judgment and escalate when necessary and keep management informed

• Performance Management and development of the team members Supervisory Responsibilities

• N/A

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and people management skills
• Ability to work effectively with clients, technical staff, consultants and vendors
• Ability to work well under pressure and within deadlines
• Experience with disaster recovery testing and creating technical/process documentation
• Ability to communicate well and manage a team located in multiple cities
• Good consultative, communication, analytical, and judgment skills
• Strong background in Compute (LINUX) administration
• Working knowledge of Virtualization and Storage infrastructure
• Working knowledge and experience in Cloud Infrastructure

Technical Skills

• LINUX Systems (Redhat and Amazon linux)
• EMC storage
• VMWare virtualization
• Cloud technologies (AWS)
• CI/CD (Terraform, Jenkins, Artifactory, Github)
• Automation (Ansible, Python)

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related discipline
• Minimum 7 years of experience in Compute (LINUX) administration
• Minimum 3 years of experience in Cloud technologies and CI/CD technologies
• Minimum 3 years of experience in managing people and leading projects.
• Experience in a regulated / financial industry a plus Certificates and Licensing