DevOps - Systems Engineer

When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing...

This role will help facilitate the development, maintenance, monitoring, and support of the public and private cloud infrastructure that is the foundation of our award-winning SaaS application. The role will involve delivering on enterprise work initiatives and projects as well as optimising the reliability, security, and scalability of our infrastructure operations. You will act as technical liaison between systems team and other operations teams, as well as working with cross-functional teams and architects to provide technical guidance and insight on upcoming implementations and strategies. The role will also require providing technical guidance to more junior systems engineers. The ideal candidate will be a highly competent, results driven as well as a highly self-motivated individual.

• Owning, tracking, and resolving system incidents and requests.
• Fulfilling requests and resolving incidents within SLAs.
• Operation, administration, and automation of Microsoft Active Directory on cloud platforms.
• Monitoring performance, troubleshooting systems problems and outages, scheduling upgrades, collaborating with System Engineers and Architects on any required optimisations.
• Provide on-call support for the Development Operations team in an outage situation.
• Work as part of the team to ensure projects and goals are delivered to timelines.
• Collaborating closely with Information security team to define, manage and implement the security configuration of all infrastructure and systems.
• Ongoing maintenance of documentation relating to new and current systems throughout the organisation.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience.
• Experience with Microsoft Active Directory in multi-forest environments.
• Experience with enterprise administration of windows servers and related technologies (DNS, IIS, Failover Clustering, WSUS).
• Knowledge of scripting and automation using PowerShell.
• Experience with Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure).
• Knowledge of Windows Troubleshooting tools and techniques (Event viewer, Perfmon, SysInternals)

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Knowledge of AWS Managed Active Directory.
• Experience with enterprise management tools (Packer, Salt, Chococlatey, Octopus).
• Experience with AWS Route 53 Resolver.
• Experience with Splunk.
• Experience with Dell Server Hardware.

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