Infrastructure Designer

Job#: 3017951

Job Description:

Title: Infrastructure Designer

Location: Plano, Texas 75024

Duration: 12 Months (Contract Role)

What are the daily responsibilities and/or priorities?

Manage and maintain application environments, ensuring availability, stability, and performance across development, testing, and production stages.

Coordinate environment refreshes, upgrades, and patching activities in collaboration with technical teams.

Monitor infrastructure health, identify issues, and ensure timely resolution to minimize downtime.

Support deployment activities by ensuring environments are configured and ready for testing and release.

Collaborate with development, testing, and operations teams to troubleshoot and resolve environment-related issues.

Manage infrastructure provisioning, including servers, storage, and network configurations, as required for project needs.

Maintain environment configuration documentation, including setup guides, runbooks, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Ensure compliance with security and governance policies for all environments and infrastructure.

Automate repetitive tasks to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual intervention.

Create and manage Change Requests (CRs) using Remedy to ensure proper tracking and approval of environment changes.

Work within Agile methodologies, participating in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives to ensure alignment with team goals.

Provide on-call support for critical environment and infrastructure issues during off-hours and weekends

Coordinate and support weekend activities, including deployments, upgrades, and other critical tasks

Selling Points:

Key role in ensuring system stability, scalability, and performance across critical platforms

Opportunity to lead infrastructure automation initiatives using cloud and DevOps tools

High visibility and cross-team collaboration with development, QA and release team

Exposure to latest technologies

Stable and mature organization with structured process and governance

Strong growth potential with in infrastructure engineering tracks

Strong knowledge of environment management processes, including setup, refresh, and maintenance.

Hands-on experience with infrastructure management tools and technologies (e.g., VMware, AWS, Azure, or other cloud platforms).

Experience with SAP solution manager, ITSM Remedy, Cutover, Release Manager, and Jira and Horizon tools

Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Shell, Python, or PowerShell) for automation and troubleshooting.

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git, or similar).

Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g., Splunk, AppDynamics, or Nagios) to track environment and infrastructure health.

Strong understanding of networking, server configurations, and storage management.

Experience in creating and managing Change Requests (CRs) using Remedy.

Proficiency in tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and SharePoint for tracking and documentation.

Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

Experience working in Agile environments, with a solid understanding of Agile methodologies and practices.

Experience with Oracle and SAP infrastructure maintenance, including troubleshooting and performance optimization.

Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

Knowledge of ITIL processes for incident, problem, and change management.

Familiarity with Agile methodologies and practices.

Experience in automating environment provisioning and configuration management using tools like Ansible, Terraform, or Chef.

Strong Work Ethic

Problem solving ability

Attention to detail

Positive attitude

Team Player

Strong Communication Skills

Continuous Learner

Self-Motivation

Time Management

EEO Employer

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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.