Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Fort Worth, TX company is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 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: 3 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field, and 5 years of experience.
• General knowledge of the following areas with deep knowledge in 2 areas:
• Implement "Infrastructure as Code" using Terraform in Azure and on-prem infrastructure resources.
• Implement Github, GHA CI/CD and ADO cloud for automation.
• Load balancing the application including Proxies and CDN (automate)
• Implementing monitoring, observability in AKS and K8S.
• Monitoring and Metrics in Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana and integrations with Moogsoft/xMatters.
• Open-source Logging infrastructure.
• Able to script Automated performance testing scenarios for APIs and Web front ends and embed in CI/CD pipelines dashboarding/reporting query languages.
• Backend storage management and scaling.
• Experienced in technology transformations and migration to one or more Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) tools and platforms, and containers and container orchestration platforms (aka Docker & Kubernetes)
• Strong technical knowledge and skills that are broad and deep, covering various hardware, software, and technology platforms.
• Nodejs, Typescript, JavaScript.
• Database and persistence frameworks: Mongo, Oracle, Object/Relational Mapping, Query performance tuning.
• Experience with Mongo Schema Design and Mongo Aggregation Framework.
• Develop, implement, and maintain applications and systems that integrate MongoDB
• Web Services: Graph QL, REST/SOAP (JSON/WSDL/XML)
• DB Admin/SQL Server
• Terraform
• SysAdmin
• Troubleshooting Network Issues
• VM Management
• Dynatrace
• Ping Federate
• Airwall
• Security Vulnerabilities (remediation/compliance)
• IIS

Desired Skills & Experience

• Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field, and 3 years of experience.
• Airline Industry experience.
• Expertise in one or more cloud native relational databases such as MySql, PostgreSql and NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and MongoDB and databases and migration to/from enterprise class databases.

What You Will Be Doing

• Run the infrastructure with Terraform, Azure PaaS and/or Kubernetes.
• Monitor and alert/notify on symptoms and not on outages.
• Document findings then turn into repeatable actions–and then into automation.
• Improve the deployment process to make it as boring as possible.
• Independently debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
• Proactive communication with issues and propose ideas and solutions within the product team to reduce the workload by automation.
• Plan, design and execute solutions within product team to reach specific goals agreed within the team.
• Plan and execute configuration change operations both at the application and the infrastructure level.
• Actively look for opportunities to improve the availability and performance of the system by applying the learnings from monitoring and observation.
• Complete Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations.
• Responsible for gaining a deep understanding of the portfolio and understand the integrations.
• Improve DevOps practices and accelerating delivery and take a lead role in troubleshooting technical issues and recommending changes to improve resiliency.
• Develop strategic technology roadmaps.
• Respond to TechOps incidents and provide support for customer incidents.

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 (MRP) 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. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.