Employment Opportunity
Job Title: Senior Unix Engineer

Job Code: GW-02182216520464
Salary Range: DOE
Job Location: TX--
City: Dallas    State: TX


JOB DESCRIPTION:


 Position Overview:
    Our constantly evolving IT department is in search of a Senior Unix Engineer with 
excellent time management skills and a proven track record of setting and reaching team 
goals! The position will also provide the planning, engineering, and delivery of business 
scalable infrastructure solutions to meet project timeline and needs while ensuring design 
compliance and enforcement of the latest best practices and technology standards

    Our Impact:

    The UNIX engineering team is responsible for UNIX servers we have in our colocation 
facilities as well as in the cloud. Our #1 goal is to maintain a stable, healthy and 
scalable platform, providing resiliency and solid performance for all UNIX servers across 
our business units through automation, standard methodologies and SME support.
        We assure Stability, Availability and Reliability for thousands of servers to 
support a wide range of applications in a hybrid Cloud environment
        We strive to prevent service impacts in a wide-ranging and constantly evolving 
ecosystem, assure rapid recoverability from any impacts to business and services
        We strategize and transform IT with Automation and Process Engineering

    Your Impact:

    In this role, you will be an integral part of the Engineering team within the 
Infrastructure and end user services group expected to perform in the following areas
        Leverage and align work to appropriate resources across the team to ensure work is 
completed in the most efficient and impactful way, including automating processes where 
possible
        Understand capabilities and current trends to increase efficiency of team by using 
current tools and applications in place and look for opportunities to improve turnaround 
time.
        Provide appropriate level of support within the organization to understand needs 
and develop a strategy in support of the Infrastructure Operations division’s delivery 
model and feedback from key customer groups
        Identify and implement best practice methodologies across the environments that 
support the organization with the highest level of efficiency and impact by working with 
vendors and other engineering team
        Stay ahead of best-in-class and current trends in training and development and 
make recommendations to improve or better align offerings with the goals of the company
        Identify and manage external vendors to ensure offerings are effective, achieving 
the desired impact and there is an acceptable cost to value ratio
        Demonstrate learning industry trends to foster greater efficiency and deliver 
innovation and positive learning experiences.

    Qualifications:
        College Degree, 5-8 years proven experience in Information Technology with in-
depth knowledge of Linux and Infrastructure Engineering
        Prior experience with scripting and automation using (Python, Ansible, Jenkins and 
shell and bask scripting)
        Prior working experience on AWS
        Understanding of vulnerability management and risk remediation
        Understanding of HA and DR concepts as they apply to Infrastructure Designs
        Experience with Legacy to Current Infrastructure migrations
        Ability to drive accountability for team performance and continued improvement of 
execution
        Communicates well within the team to set clear goals and effectively relay the 
status and accomplishments to management
        Must not only lead current technical trends, but also anticipate the team’s growth 
in our future state technologies
        An eye for automating common processes

    Keys to Success in this Role:

        Communicates and influences very effectively.
        Demonstrates deep job specific knowledge and methodologies to drive effective 
change and transform how work is performed.
        Elevates team members via mentoring and knowledge sharing. Highly effective team 
leader. Top influencer for other IT and business partners.
        Meaningful contributions to strategy and objectives using knowledge leadership for 
areas of responsibility.
        Thinks beyond individual sphere