Infrastructure Engineer

Role Purpose

The Infrastructure Engineer will serve as the corporate IT technical liaison for internal customers. Helping to provide solutions that meet the customer needs and expectations, including concept, functional features, system architecture, and design process. This role will also be responsible for supporting key technology initiatives including server and storage hardware refresh, operating system refresh, server consolidation, and disaster recovery, capacity planning as well as taking an active role in large projects. Additionally, this role will be called up to provide technology generalist type duties from time to time to Owned Television Stations (OTS) 40 television stations.

Responsibilities

Responsible for technical engagement providing facilitation of end-to-end delivery of key projects for the owned stations local IT groups.
Delivery of project engagement tasks to the internal customer
Be highly responsive to internal customer requests
Responsible for implementations and assistance of EMC ISILON, Unity or VNX, and NetApp infrastructures (including both physical and virtualized environments).

Responsible for building sound business cases and develop ideas that balance the need for best of breed product selection and efficient solution development.
Responsible for providing L3 support and willingness to participate in off-hour maintenance activities with NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations.
Responsible for the development, justification, and implementation of specific Proof-of-Concept as it relates to emerging technologies with an emphasis on information security, form-fit-function in a 24 hour a day, 7 days a week television studio environments.
Responsible for coordination with internal Information Security teams on information security best practices implementations and tasks as it relates to the NBCUNI owned television stations.

Qualifications/Requirements

Basic Qualifications

B.S. degree in Information Technology, Business Administration or equivalent experience

The preferred candidate will demonstrate excellent communication, writing, meeting facilitation and presentation skills including presenting the technical design, technical solutions, and enterprise architecture solutions.

Must be able to manage time and manage customer expectations.

Candidate must have significant exposure to enterprise rackmount and blade server platforms (HP, Cisco).

Knowledge of Linux Operating Systems, e.g., Oracle Linux, Redhat Linux

Minimum 5 years’ experience in Windows Operating System, preferably server 2008, and Server 2012, including Windows clustering

Experience building and configuring data center-class servers (Cisco UCS, rack mount/blades) including drivers/firmware and documentation

Candidate must have significant exposure to one or more of the following storage platforms (NetApp, EMC, HP, Isilon, Pure, Nimble, Dell, or Cloudian).

Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft SCCM, Active Directory

General knowledge in support of MS SQL Clusters.

Ability to manage multiple customer expectations in a given work day.

Eligibility Requirements

Interested candidate must submit a resume/CV through www.nbcunicareers.com to be considered

Willingness to travel and work after hours, and on weekends with short notice as required. – Available 24/7/365

Travel up to 50% of the time

Preferred work location is Fort Worth, Texas

Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States

Must be 18 years or older

Desired Characteristics

Well organized, able to plan projects and initiatives, track and report to milestones with the ability to report successes and blockers to management.

An effective and clear communicator (verbally and in writing), able to interact with technical resources as well as with business users.

The position is 100% customer facing; the best candidate will have a strong customer support mentality.

Flexibility to adjust to changing requirements, schedules, and priorities.

Self-driven and resourceful to achieve goals independently as well as work well in groups.

Ability to collaborate with local IT support resources and to provide advice and support related to database, web, server and storage environments.

Experience with Newsroom workflow systems such as Dalet, Grass Valley, and Avid is a plus

Technical certifications and designations highly preferred.

Minimum 2 years’ experience on VMWare ESX/ESXi within a large enterprise.

Experience deploying Teradici a plus

Broad knowledge of high-performance, highly-available computing environments and integration of technical products into complex environments.

Media Industry experience is preferred, but not required.

Former server/storage vendor experience (pre-sales role) is a plus but is not required

English fluency is required, and Spanish proficiency is a plus but is not required

Sub-Business

Technology

Career Level

Experienced

City

Dallas – Fort Worth

State/Province

Texas

Country

United States

About Us

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Notices

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