Senior Engineer – IT Infrastructure

Tempe, AZ

**Hybrid**

Contract

$43.33/hr - $53.33/hr

Phoenix, AZ company is seeking a Senior Engineer – IT Infrastructure to join their team for a contract opportunity.

Leverage the latest technology to solve business problems in a collaborative environment at this Fortune 500 transportation giant. Top technical resources are retained on long-term contract engagements. Responsible for leveraging cutting edge technology to solve business problems by participating in all phases of the development process from inception through transition, advocating the agile process and test-driven development, using object-oriented development tools to analyze, model, design, construct and test reusable objects, and making the codebase better.

Contract Duration: 6 Month contract to hire

Onsite Hybrid: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

**Required Skills & Experience**

+ Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training.

+ 3 years of experience as a network or infrastructure engineer or administrator.

+ 3 years LINUX (RHEL8) experience, IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server, IBM Cognos and IBM Cloud or MS Azure.

**Desired Skills & Experience**

+ Master’s degree in computer science computer engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training.

+ 5 years of experience as a network or infrastructure engineer or administrator.

+ Advanced ability to plan strategically for current and future business environments, including future technology and business design changes to create flexible, scalable solutions.

+ In-depth knowledge of IT business operations, systems requirements, and processes.

+ Ability to analyze complex problems and implement solutions and/or workarounds.

+ Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously with a keen desire to learn and expand depth of knowledge.

+ Ability to thrive in a sense-of-urgency environment and leverage best practices.

+ Demonstrated initiative, flexibility, and ability to adapt to changing priorities and work environments.

+ Proficiency in Agile project management methodology, specifically within infrastructure area.

+ Knowledge and hands on experience with FTP and secure FTP.

+ Experience in working with IBM WebSphere/Tomcat/IBM Http Server and IBM Cognos Reporting Server.

+ Knowledge and understanding on SSL certificates, PGP encryption and NAS storages.

+ Knowledge and support of Dynatrace and Splunk tools installations.

+ Knowledge and work experience on various components like Kubernetes, VPC, subnets, CI/CD in IBM Cloud/MS Azure.

+ Shell and Perl scripting capability knowledge in respect to setting up monitoring and alerting for Unix/Linux systems.

**What You Will Be Doing**

+ Provide good understanding of concepts related to server load balancing, WAS clustering, and other application scaling concepts.

+ Troubleshoot and resolve middleware issues across development, testing, and production environments.

+ Recommend and implement system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the systems including installing, upgrading/patching, monitoring, problem resolution, and configuration management.

+ Encourage an environment of sharing and teamwork among the team.

+ Stay current with systems technology best practices and changing technologies, in order to maintain domain expertise and recommend enhancements or changes.

+ Support communication and response process by responding to users on system issues, maintenance, and system status, and advising and escalating on any prolonged or major issues.

+ Travel, as required.

+ Mandatory rotational schedule for on-call off-hours support.

**You will receive the following benefits:**

+ Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family

+ Dental & Orthodontia Benefits

+ Vision Benefits

+ Health Savings Account (HSA)

+ Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

+ Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance

+ Hospital Indemnity Insurance

+ 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options

+ Paid Sick Time Leave

+ Legal and Identity Protection Plans

+ Pre-tax Commuter Benefit

+ 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans/Disability/Women. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

**Posted by:** Cate Novak

**Specialization:** Database Engineer