Design, implement, and support enterprise data networks across data centers, corporate sites, retail, distribution, and call centers. Author solutions and documentation, perform capacity planning, installation/configuration, monitoring, incident resolution, and security compliance. Lead or mentor engineers, collaborate with contractors, improve processes, and contribute to recruitment and team planning.
Greetings Everyone
Who are we?
For the past 20 years, we have powered many Digital Experiences for the Fortune 500. Since 1999, we have grown from a few people to more than 4000 team members across the globe that are engaged in various Digital Modernization. For a brief 1 minute video about us, you can check https://youtu.be/uJWBWQZEA6o.
What will you do? What are we looking for?
Description:
Design and support data networks for WSI data centers, corporate facilities, retail stores, distribution centers, call centers, and eCommerce environment. Design, develop, implement, and support network solutions for IT projects.
Specific Responsibilities
• Participates and documents systems requirements and authors solution designs
• Reviews and provides feedback for system design solutions that will impact their area
• Participates in establishing strategies and standards
• Creates and manages system capacity plans
• Leads, or participates, in installation and configuration activities
• Develops and maintains procedures and system documentation
• Performs systems resource optimization activities
• Leads, or participates, in major updates supporting new requirements and maintaining systems currency
• Leads or participates in implementation of resources management and monitoring methods, tools and threshold
• Works on many phases of a project or entire projects of moderate complexity
• Oversees monitoring, system access and resource administration
• Participates in systems management, and Security Compliance activities
• Supports resolution of production incidents
• Routinely monitors all systems within their domain
• Accountable for team dependencies and critical paths
• Provides work breakdown planning and estimation
• Reviews and evaluates the team’s estimates
• Their work and others they may oversee within their domain
• Identifies feature and module dependencies
• Proposes mitigation plans for identified risks and problems
• Accountable for team dependencies and critical paths
• Anticipates risks and provides contingency solutions and timelines
• Collects useful metrics and targets for domain
• Suggests process improvements and best practices
• Measurably improves processes and best practices to achieve goals
• May research new technologies and methods, collaborating on solutions for multiple teams and features
• Innovates measurable improvements
• Stabilizes emerging technologies
• Interacts with business users, and/or functional peer group and managers
• Works with contract resources, providing guidance and assessing the quality of work
• Assess the quality of work and effectiveness of the agreement with contract resource arrangement
• Sphere of influence is team
• Actively shares knowledge (technical and professional) through shared resources and informal teachings
• Contributes and enforces best practices
• Inspires teamwork and guides the team
• Assists in career development plans for engineers
• Mentors, cross trains co-workers within area of expertise
• Improves others productivity
• Participates in staff recruiting
• Self directing and provides direction for others
• Achieves team consent and buy-in
Specific Responsibilities
• Participates and documents systems requirements and authors solution designs
• Reviews and provides feedback for system design solutions that will impact their area
• Participates in establishing strategies and standards
• Creates and manages system capacity plans
• Leads, or participates, in installation and configuration activities
• Develops and maintains procedures and system documentation
• Performs systems resource optimization activities
• Leads, or participates, in major updates supporting new requirements and maintaining systems currency
• Leads or participates in implementation of resources management and monitoring methods, tools and threshold
• Works on many phases of a project or entire projects of moderate complexity
• Oversees monitoring, system access and resource administration
• Participates in systems management, and Security Compliance activities
• Supports resolution of production incidents
• Routinely monitors all systems within their domain
• Accountable for team dependencies and critical paths
• Provides work breakdown planning and estimation
• Reviews and evaluates the team’s estimates
• Their work and others they may oversee within their domain
• Identifies feature and module dependencies
• Proposes mitigation plans for identified risks and problems
• Accountable for team dependencies and critical paths
• Anticipates risks and provides contingency solutions and timelines
• Collects useful metrics and targets for domain
• Suggests process improvements and best practices
• Measurably improves processes and best practices to achieve goals
• May research new technologies and methods, collaborating on solutions for multiple teams and features
• Innovates measurable improvements
• Stabilizes emerging technologies
• Interacts with business users, and/or functional peer group and managers
• Works with contract resources, providing guidance and assessing the quality of work
• Assess the quality of work and effectiveness of the agreement with contract resource arrangement
• Sphere of influence is team
• Actively shares knowledge (technical and professional) through shared resources and informal teachings
• Contributes and enforces best practices
• Inspires teamwork and guides the team
• Assists in career development plans for engineers
• Mentors, cross trains co-workers within area of expertise
• Improves others productivity
• Participates in staff recruiting
• Self directing and provides direction for others
• Achieves team consent and buy-in
Compensation, Benefits and Duration
Minimum Compensation: USD 38,000
Maximum Compensation: USD 133,000
Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.
Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full time employees.
This position is available for independent contractors
No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post
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