Sr. Infrastructure Architect

Sr. Infra Architect / Sr. Lead Administrator
Experience - 10+ years hands on experience
Support - (8am - 4 pm PST)

Job Summary:

The Sr Infra Architect / Lead administrator will be responsible for end-to-end planning and solution design support for enterprise infrastructure platforms. This role provides architectural guidance and oversight for Linux/Unix operating systems, upgrades, layered software deployments, and core infrastructure services. The architect/lead will contribute to solution design, capacity planning, and lifecycle management to ensure platforms remain secure, reliable, scalable, and compliant over time.

Job Duties:

Designing and deploying scalable, highly available, fault tolerant, and reliable systems
Lead the design of the server, network, and storage architecture for hardware, virtualized and cloud-based infrastructures and application services
Lead cross functional teams to help develop solutions for management, monitoring, testing, backup, disaster recovery, etc.
Continually research and assess emerging technologies and services to evaluate their potential value to the organization and its stakeholders.
Stay informed about various service models and delivery methods to allow customers to match them to specific project requirements and use cases
Manage operations of Redhat Linux servers; including database, web servers, ldap servers.
Manage Identity Provider and authentication services, Eg. Redhat Satellite services, and configuration management services like Ansible and Salt
Manage Tomcat servers and Java applications
Plan and schedule software installations and upgrades to operating systems in accordance with established IT policies and procedures; develop and deploy new services as appropriate.
Ensure systems achieve optimum performance levels.
Responsible for system security and integrity by evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions.
Develop and promote standard operating procedures.
Develop and document internal processes.
Responsible for hardware and software audits of servers to ensure compliance with established policies, standards, and configuration guidelines.
Responsible for planning and organizing the installations of new applications, distributing software upgrades, monitoring daily activity, enforcing licensing agreements, developing storage management, and providing routine backups.
Oversee programs in administrative languages such as Python, Perl, Java Script, and shell scripts.
Collaborate with team members on the design, implementation, and support of standardized automation systems.
Collaborate with team members in the development of new projects and services arising from the academic and technical needs of supported groups.
May provide leadership and/or guidance to personnel.
Participation in an on-call rotation and after-hours support is required.
Excellent troubleshooting, debugging, and diagnostic skills.
Solid understanding of networking concepts, including routing, subnets, DNS, and software firewall configurations
Familiarity with containers and API scripting
Forecast infrastructure needs for long term plan

Preferred Skills

Experience administering and supporting (IdP) and Service Provider (SP) systems, including configuration, maintenance, and integration with SAML-based authentication services. Preferred experience with Shibboleth Identity Provider
Demonstrated expertise in architecting AWS solutions, automating cloud infrastructure and services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform)

Optional Skills

Experience administering and managing OpenSearch or ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack, including deployment, configuration, performance tuning, and monitoring.

Basic Qualifications:

B.S. in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or equivalent is required. M.S. Preferred. 10 years' experience with system administration is also necessary.
The selected candidate must pass a pre-employment background investigation to be hired for this position.
Five years of experience using and supporting the Linux operating system is required, as is excellent customer relations, written, and oral communication skills.
Five years of hands-on experience managing and supporting AWS cloud environments, including core services such as EC2, S3, IAM, and VPC

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