Infrastructure Design Engineer

Location: San Francisco
Posted on: November 20, 2024

Job Description:

Healthcare services client needs a Design Engineer in their El Dorado Hills office. This is a 12+ month contract to join their Infrastructure Services team.
 
Infrastructure tech: Linux, Oracle VMware vSphere,
 
Design Engineer will assist the Senior Design Engineers to provide oversight and technical leadership in implementing integrated infrastructure solutions. Design Engineers influence the creation of business solutions through the alignment of infrastructure roadmaps and standards/patterns with the application roadmaps. The Design engineer will work closely with Senior Design Engineers, application teams and business owners to create an environment for the deployment of test, QA, Performance test, Staging and production environments. The Design Engineer is accountable for the project-level infrastructure design and deployment plans, including but not limited to operating system, integration, and data warehouse technologies
 
***MUST BE ELIGIBLE TO WORK on W2 without sponsorship***
 
Responsibilities:
 
¿ Collaborate with the senior Design Engineers, business partners, and platform architects to translate business strategy and requirements into system requirements and technical solutions
¿ Develop technical diagrams and plans and build specification documents for IT infrastructure build teams
¿ Promote and enable re-use of services, repeatable architecture patterns, master data, and existing integration patterns.
¿ Significant contributor to the definition and implementation of the Enterprise Architecture/Engineering standards and policies.
¿ Define a solutions strategy and solution design that supports the short, medium and long-term infrastructure and business objectives across more than one domain line.
¿ Develop customized solutions that address specific needs, and successful management and/or delivery of engagements.
¿ Facilitate decision making, keeping the client’s best interests in mind (addressing vendor biases and striving for cost-effective solution for the client).
¿ Works with peers outside immediate organization to define and characterize complex technology or process problems and/or develops new solutions, yet works independently to drive technical problems to a solution.
¿ Develops reusable solutions and workarounds that are innovative and demonstrate a deep technical knowledge of the affected products, processes, and the customer environment.
¿ Provide though leadership regarding architectural/engineering needs such as framework and tools selection.
¿ Participate in proof-of-concept and prototyping efforts with other project teams in both a design and engineering capacity.  Collects, analyzes, and documents results; produces summaries and recommendations.
¿ Analyze infrastructure systems performance, collect information, and prepare summary reports
¿ Must be able to clearly articulate solution alternatives and trade-offs, and develop sound recommendation for end-to-end infrastructure technology solutions.
 
 
Knowledge and Skills Required:
 
• 10+ year experience in core technologies including RedHat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux, Solaris, Windows server, VMware vSphere
 
• Solid experience with 3 more of the following: IBM WebSphere Application Server, Enterprise Service Bus, MQ, and DataPower, EDI, SalesForce, Informatica, and batch processing in the Healthcare vertical
• Experience with DB2, Oracle, and SQL database technologies
• Extensive experience with designing, implementing, deploying and supporting enterprise-level solutions.
¿ Strong ability to analyze, consolidate and communicate complex technical topics to all levels of staff (including but not limited to IT executives, business/technical managers, developers and system administrators) in verbal and written form
¿ Demonstrated experience in designing complex business critical software solution
¿ Excellent communicator with experience delivering highly complex enterprise solutions.
¿ Strong ability to build partnerships and influence others that are not in the direct sphere of control. With the ability to earn the respect of technical personnel across application and infrastructure teams.
 
 
Behavioral and interpersonal:
 
¿ Maintains effectiveness in varying environments and with different tasks, responsibilities, and people.
¿ Excellent communications skills, both verbally and in writing. Opinions are well structured and well justified.
¿ Uses tact and sensitive to treating others with respect.
¿ Actively listens, hears and understands what is said as well as not said, and comprehends the meaning and intent.
¿ Deals effectively and professionally with pressure (real or perceived) and capably performs and meets requirements while managing and prioritizing work in stressful situations. Poise and resiliency are key.
¿ Works effectively with teams or work groups outside his/her formal line of authority to accomplish technical, functional, or organizational goals.
¿ Ability to make intelligent decisions, even with incomplete information.
¿ Ability to understand the business context of customers’ requests
¿ Solid problem solving skills
 
 
“Must Have” Attributes:
 
¿ Self-starter / self-motivated individual who requires minimal oversight to be productive. Demonstrates ability to proactively look for answers without being told how to handle a challenge
¿ An individual who thrives in a demanding environment that imposes new challenges frequently
¿ An analytical, data-driven approach to problem solving and organizational development
¿ Excellent communication skills, including poise in pressure situations
 

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