Infrastructure Engineer

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for an Infrastructure Engineer for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in New Castle, DE.

Responsibilities:
Cyber Security is seeking a highly motivated candidate for the position of Senior Technology Analyst for providing L3 support for the Security Infrastructure. He/she will be expected to oversee the infrastructure projects, Security assessment, transition of Infrastructure and tools under global operational model, manage the production problems, root cause analysis/resolution for system issues, defects, and minor enhancements, supporting project transition, operations, and technology. This candidate should be a technical leader with excellent communication skills and in-depth background in UNIX & Wintel technologies. Candidate is expected to have a firm grasp of system administration, network protocols, networking issues and solutions, system monitoring, databases, and storage.

• Act as a member of quick-response project task-support team and will often work under demanding deadlines, operating as team member as well as independently to resolve complex problems.

• Be responsible to assess the risk and associated impact of all operational issues and change events and react quickly to escalate to technology management in a timely manner when required.
• Work closely with the development team to ensure the operational requirements are met during the project transition Continuously keep the Knowledge Share repository up to date.

Required Skills:

• 5 years of experience of support infrastructure in large enterprise environment, and the experience can be on either Windows Server OR Linux
• Must have strong experience in shell scripting OR PowerShell.
• Strong customer and quality-focus is a must.
• Sound problem resolution, judgment, and decision-making skills required.
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and project management skills Excellent communication skills both written and oral.
• Ability to work well individually and as part of a team Key Responsibilities: Build & manage complex distributed application Infrastructure.
• Provide SME support on managed applications.
• Capacity, Performance and Stability reporting and Management.
• Lead initiative to develop/improve scripts and other programs for system monitoring and maintenance.
• Provide Technical Mentoring.
• Lead Infrastructure projects and Security assessment for the infrastructure associated the applications in scope.
• Leadership Skills to Document and do knowledge transfer to other team members.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work across all levels of the organization.
• Proven ability to work with demanding global partners within aggressive timelines; solid problem solving, analytical and technical abilities
• Proficiency in one or more of these scripting languages - Unix Shell, Perl, Python & PowerShell scripting. Java, VB & batch scripting will be considered a plus.
• Hands-on experience working with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 & 7, Microsoft Windows Server 2012+, Solaris 10 & AIX 6/7
• Understanding of PKI concepts and standards including but not limited to X.509, CRL, FIPS, various cryptographic algorithms including Suite B and hashing types.
• Experience with Entrust (including Toolkit), Microsoft & Symantec PKI
• Experience with Oracle, MS SQL & PostgreSQL RDBMS from application programming perspective. Good knowledge on how to interface with these databases, analyze & write complex queries, stored procedures & SQL scripts.
• OpenSSH and Tectia SSH solid experience with how this is setup and public key authentication. Web Server experience with IIS, NGINX, Apache HTTP Server
• Experience with protocols like TLS, TCP/IP, UDB, OCSP, COM/DCOM/RPC, LDAP, SMB/CIFS/Samba NoSQL databases like MongoDB & Apache Cassandra.
• Experience with any other NoSQL databases will also be considered.
• Good understanding of virtualization technologies and various Hypervisors including but not limited to VMware ESXi and guest VMs, LDOMs, LPARs.
• Experience with various storage types & technologies like JBOD, NAS, SAN Solid understanding of key network concepts like DNS, OSI model.
• Microsoft Active Directory Good to Have Certifications (CISSP, CCNA/CCNP, CEH, Redhat, ITIL, MCSE) Ionic Security Protegrity Venafi TPP (Trust Protection Platform) SafeNet LunaSA & Tahles HSMs, Unbound vHSM.
• Hands on experience with web services and associated frameworks like SOAP, REST, and WCF. SharePoint Knowledge of Security tools and hands-on experience with some of the following technologies is an added advantage: o CA Workload Automation AE/Autosys o CHEF o Microsoft SharePoint o Some experience on utilizing monitoring tools like IBM Tivoli, HP SiteScope o APMs like AppDynamics, Dynatrace o Security Infrastructure Technologies Such as CiscoSecure, Token Technologies, Powerbroker, Unix Security tools, Kerberos, Directory Server. o Application Servers (WebLogic, WebSphere & CE) o Databases (Sybase ASE including OC/OS SDK, MySQL) o Understanding of Programming languages (Core Java, C/C++) o Thorough understanding of security, network architectures and protocols.
• Familiarity of Compliance and risk management frameworks and methodologies (ISO27002, SDLC).

Preferred Skills:

• Experience working on database will be plus
• Network related experience will be plus (VLAN/GRN/Firewall/Load Balancers/TCP Packets)
• Experience with Security appliance / products like Hardware Security Appliances, Venafi will be plus
• Experience with PKI (Public Key Infra) will be plus
• Experience on TLS certificates will be plus.

SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at .

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