Hosting and Compute Operations Engineer (Contractor)

In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:

• Advance understanding Cloud, Virtualization, Storage, Data Protection, Windows, and Linux/Unix environments

• Advance level of administration, monitoring, uptime, performance, security, patching and troubleshooting of all above enumerated technologies

• Work with users and IT technical groups to troubleshoot and solve basic operational issues

• Coordinate and assist working with vendors and datacenter technicians for installing/troubleshooting/replacing hardware as necessary

• Perform maintenance activities outside of normal business hours, based on a set of well-established standards and procedures

• Has a proven record for problem-solving and troubleshooting issues

• Able to work proactively and operate independently across organizational and geographical boundaries with supervision and direction of management and/or coworkers

• Self-starter and have the passion to learn new skills in a robust technical environment.

Who You Are:

You can act differently depending on the circumstances. With excellent analytical and quantitative skills, you can efficiently carry out tasks independently and generate accurate, high-quality reports. You analyze multiple and diverse sources of information to define problems accurately before moving to solutions and with good communication skills, you can proficiently communicate ideas and influence both internal and external customers.

For This Role, You Will Need:

EXPERIENCE / SKILLS

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or IT related courses

• Previous experience in Infrastructure IT on professional environments

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Teams, SharePoint, etc.

• Good Knowledge of scripting languages and techniques

• Effective communication skills. Must be proficient in English (written and verbal)

• Working knowledge and understanding of Cloud computing and cloud service providers (at least 1)

 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (primary)

 Microsoft Azure (primary)

• General understanding of IT infrastructure and cloud technology (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, Converged On_prem)

• 1-3 years of experience in Managing infrastructure systems.

• Working Knowledge with Cloud, Virtualization, Linux, Windows, Nutanix, Data Protection and Storage.

Preferred Qualifications that Set You Apart

• Unix, Linux & OEL expertise is a plus

• Cloud certifications for Azure, OCI, AWS is a plus

• Scripting, Coding and API knowledge is a plus (powershell, Github, etc…)