Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Atlanta, GA

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The Office of Information Technology (OIT) provides information technology leadership and support to the Georgia Institute of Technology, working in partnership with academic and business units to meet the unique needs of a leading research university. OIT serves as the primary source of enterprise-wide information technology and telecommunications services in support of students, faculty, staff, and researchers.

Atlanta, GA (In-Person - In the Office)

Responsible for advanced level design, integration, implementation and modification of a wide variety of user information systems usually within a highly complex environment. This includes coordination of the installation, testing, operation, troubleshooting and maintenance of those systems. Provide functional and technical expertise in support of user systems operation and maintenance. May include support of labs, training facilities and general IT office software and hardware. Provides technical advice and leadership to lower level technical staff. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: system staff and departmental users including management. This position typically will advise and counsel: systems staff. This position will supervise: NA (work direction only)

Job Duty 1 -
Conduct needs analysis, planning and scheduling the installation of a wide variety of new or modified hardware/software.

Job Duty 2 -
Develop functional and technical IT system requirements and specifications.

Job Duty 3 -
Provide technical support through allocating systems resources, managing accounts, administering passwords, documentation, security, recoverability and access including deploying security and operating system patches.

Job Duty 4 -
Monitor and reports on system performance.

Job Duty 5 -
Support internal departmental servers.

Job Duty 6 -
Maintain hardware and software inventories including developing and updating departmental distributed software license management policy.

Job Duty 7 -
Makes technical presentations to other technical personnel and user department administrators.

Job Duty 8 -
May lead project technical team; provide technical advice to lower level technical staff.

Job Duty 9 -
Perform other duties as assigned

Research Cyber Infrastructure Engineer has the following responsibilities and duties:

Provide technical support through allocating systems resources, managing accounts, administering passwords, documentation, security, recoverability and access including deploying security and operating system patches, for all of PACE supported servers.

Provide technical leadership of the configuration management tools in use by PACE, defining roadmaps for new functionality, features, and integration to other tools in use by PACE, the Office of Information technology (OIT) and other areas of Georgia Tech.

Participate in change planning and implementation.

Conduct needs analysis, planning and scheduling the installation of a wide variety of new or modified hardware/software.

Monitor, analyze and reports on system performance.

Support internal departmental servers.

Educational Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent combination of education and work experience

Required Experience
Four to six years of job related experience

Additional Preferred Qualifications
Technical leadership skills

Red Hat Linux System Administration, 3-5 years' experience

Configuration and automation management systems (Puppet, SaltStack, Ansible), at least 2 years' experience.

Large Unix based system administration; experience managing environments larger than 100 servers.

Scripting and programming languages, 3-5 years' experience

3-5 years' experience managing TCP/IP based networks

Understanding of Infiniband interconnections and topologies

Project management foundations

Information technology infrastructure library (ITIL): operations, change, release, configuration, incident and problem management. Understanding and knowledge of the complete framework preferred, with emphasis on service support.

Good communication skills.

Optional: Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer related area

$78,023 - $108,150, depending on experience and preferred skills

SKILLS
This job requires advanced knowledge of complex concepts, practices and procedures associated with IT systems design, installation and maintenance. Expert knowledge in variety of applications and platforms is required.

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This is not a supervisory position.
This position does not have any financial responsibilities.
This position will not be required to drive.
This role is not considered a position of trust.
This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).
This position will not travel
This position does not require security clearance.

Successful candidate must be able to pass a background check. Please visit https://usg.policystat.com/policy/19298143/latest/