Senior Technical Engineer

Title: Senior Technical Engineer (Only w2 and local candidates)

Duration: 6+ months

Location: Buffalo, NY

OVERVIEW:
Provides technical solutions, designs, documentation, and guidance, specifies solutions, and provides technical guidance at the highest level of technical direction in the development and deployment of new or existing technical solutions.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Work closely with Technology management, customers, and support teams on a regular basis to lead the design, development, and execution of technical solutions that meet or exceed the current and future needs of the organization.
Primary responsibilities may include infrastructure architecture and design, research and development of new or expanded systems, creation of technology standards and policies, thorough analysis of user requirements and operational constraints, unit test and system integration, and user acceptance testing.
Regularly and independently interact with business partners of varying associate and management levels to ensure clarity of the problem/opportunity and elicit business requirements. Estimate the size of the effort required to complete complex, moderate to large scale projects where applicable.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Combined minimum of 12 years higher education and/ or work experience in systems design, management, and/or architecture.
Thorough understanding of the system development and infrastructure lifecycle and architecture, vendor best practices, IT Service Management, and systems design.

MUST have Kubernetes, Cloud Azure, Terraform and Ansible.