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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
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