Infrastructure Specialist Job Description
Infrastructure specialist
provides guidance across data, compute, storage, network, virtualization, containerization and Security and help transform the organizations to take advantage of DevSecOps, CI/CD and agile methodologies.
Infrastructure Specialist Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Reviewing of design documents for site roads, crane pads, storage areas, harbor areas
React quickly and as necessary to live and test systems errors and service problems to minimize downtime and restore service
Manage image delivery with SCCM, MDT, PXE, virtual environments such as Citrix XenDesktop, VMWare
Manage ticket queues and track tickets to resolution
Provide advice on alternatives of network infrastructure solution
Develop design document for customer network architecture
Deploy and implement the proposed network infrastructure solution
Conduct handover and develop project documentation
Analysis and repair of data (data corruption, request for data change, KPI, on-demand query request)
Creation and maintenance of custom client solutions (File feeds, Packages, Functions, Procedures, triggers )
Infrastructure Specialist Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Infrastructure Specialist
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ITIL, CCNA, CISSP, CCNP, JNCIS, JNCIA, GIAC, PMP, MCSE, V3
Education for Infrastructure Specialist
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the infrastructure specialist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Education, Engineering, Technical, Information Technology, Business, Graduate Education, Information Systems, Technology, Science
Skills for Infrastructure Specialist
Desired skills for infrastructure specialist include:
Cognos is an added advantage
Docker is an advantage
Storage
Compute
DNS
Security Services
Garage method and Agile
APM and DASH-BOARD
ITNM
Impact
Desired experience for infrastructure specialist includes:
Should have performed in an engineering and support role for a technical discipline
Strong communication skills both oral and written (English required)
Passionate about financial markets and the industry – would be an asset
At least 1 year experience in infrastructure services
Windows/Unix Server OS
HP/Dell Hardware
Infrastructure Specialist Examples
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Infrastructure Specialist Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for an infrastructure specialist. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for infrastructure specialist
- Support the Solution Architect with the design of new services
- Provide technical support to work on all application tiers all supporting infrastructure
- Knowledge of incident, problem and change management
- Application Platform as a Service
- Configures and maintains all enterprise security infrastructures consisting of Check Point firewalls, Cisco routers, Cisco DMZ switches, Blue Coat packet shapers, Blue Coat Proxy gateways, Blue Coat Proxy Anti-Virus, Sourcefire/Cisco Firepower IPS, and their subsystems to ensure seamless network security service
- Develops, configures, implements and maintains system security standards, policies, procedures, systems, WAN, LAN and Internet access to the client systems to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of systems, networks, servers and data
- Provides 24/7 support for all network and security-related issues and deployments
- Assists in the implementation of complex security programs by advising network security supervisor on all security-related matters, identifying security threats/risks and developing counter measures using appropriate technologies, and developing business intelligence and security reports to keep supervisor informed of system-wide security issues
- Designs, creates, tests and deploys network firewall rules on core, perimeter and remote firewalls
- Receives and responds to trouble tickets from vendors and internal staff to resolve network and security issues
Qualifications for infrastructure specialist
- Microsoft SQL Server administration, clustering setup knowledge
- General network administration knowledge - TCP/ IP, Firewall, NAT, ACL, Load balancer
- General Virtualisation knowledge
- Prefer to have) General Miscrosoft IIS/ IBM Websphere administration knowledge
- Prefer to have) General Oracle knowledge
- At least 6 months experience in implementation and systems integration
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for an infrastructure specialist. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for infrastructure specialist
- Escalation and resolution of any issues in the storage and backup infrastructure
- Responsible for communicating storage and backup environment issues and their resolution to the IT Manager
- Develop, document, maintain IT processes and procedures related to storage and backup services
- Ensure that Storage and Backup Platform standards, roadmaps and service SLAs established by the IT Manager and Global Architect are followed
- Maintain storage and backup infrastructure software and firmware revision levels
- Provide service and support on a 24x7 schedule established by the IT Manager including emergency response to system outages and daily reporting of system health checks to the Storage and Cloud Services Manager
- Uses analytical skills to understand the security requirements of a system
- Develops and improves the expertise needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of changes to the specialized systems that result in solving specific business problems
- Experience with Cisco switches to include Catalyst series 3700 & 6500 and Nexus series 3000, 5000, and 7000
- Experience designing, engineering, and implementing secure network protocols at layers 1-3 of the OSI model
Qualifications for infrastructure specialist
- Mainframe TSO, ISPF, JCL, TWS
- Unix Shell scripting and automation skills
- At least 5 years experience in DOORs Application Transition, DB2
- 5+ years? experience supporting Windows PCs preferably at level 3, preferably in a demanding, large networked global enterprise environment with at least 1000 PCs
- Experience on server partitioning
- 7-10 years of Yardi or similar technical ERP experience required (Voyager, Yardi 7s or comparable system), in depth report writing, data migration and advanced SQL skills
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of infrastructure specialist. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for infrastructure specialist
- Maintain a good working knowledge of the technical aspects of infrastructure support (applications, databases, hardware platforms, operating systems, networks, telephony)
- Task oriented - Create and\or maintain current quality documentation on all I.T
- Plans, designs, analyzes and provides technical support for data communications network or group of networks
- Designs and implements network solutions
- Handles technical issues and major incidents regarding all internal LANs/WANs
- Security of Middleware against external or internal threat vectors
- Directly responsible for implementing and supporting Group I.T
- Coordinating Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and tracking
- Coordinating changes on all Network software and hardware
- Network monitoring, Capacity and Configuration Management
Qualifications for infrastructure specialist
- Rapidly respond to changes in environment and priorities
- Strong customer engagement skills with excellent interpersonal and presentational skills, with the ability to communicate (verbally and written) at all levels of the business, IT, and corporate partners (vendors) effectively
- Understand IT Service Management
- Has ITIL Foundation V3 certification
- Have knowledge in HP service management tool and HP Monitoring tool set
- 5 Years of Experience as Infrastructure Specialist for Telecommunication Industry
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of infrastructure specialist. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for infrastructure specialist
- Participate in client life cycle management
- Supervision of service desk activities and staff
- Responsibility of service desk performance against target
- Reporting on overall service desk performance (KPIs) to Head of IT
- Looking for opportunities to improve the service to internal customers
- Ensure ownership of incidents and tasks is taken and seen through to completion including the following
- Various layer 2 and 3 LAN technologies such as Spanning-tree, VLAN tagging, HSRP/GLBP, Ether-Channel/Port-channel, inter-VLAN routing, EIGRP/OSPF routing protocols, static routing, Access Control List
- Maintain, develop and expand the current I.T
- Serve as a senior manager and technical subject matter specialist in energy infrastructure modernization and protection, providing oversight and direction to a team of technical specialists in engineering, risk, finance, and public safety
- Direct, control, and administer contract budgets, commitments, plans, schedules, specifications, staffing, and management requirements
Qualifications for infrastructure specialist
- At least 5 years Infrastructure experinece
- General knowledge of NAS filers
- Working knowledge of SAN networking principles
- Working knowledge of protocols CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, FCP
- Working knowledge of D/R (snapshots, snapmirror, snapvault), performance, availability, scalability of NAS Systems
- Knowledge of IT Delivery Processes
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of infrastructure specialist. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for infrastructure specialist
- Perform network analysis, capacity planning and testing as necessary
- Install network hardware and software and maintain integrity of the network, server deployment and security
- Create and maintain infrastructure documentation for lab architectures
- Troubleshoot infrastructure related incidents and outages
- Support training programs and assist in the development of content as needed
- Primary Technology is Microsoft OS
- Secondary Technology is Desktop Support, Printer Support, Identify & Access Management
- Daily review of backup jobs for multiple business locations to ensure data backups are fully functional
- Develop, document, maintain and test Disaster Recovery plans for multiple locations
- Install, configure, and maintain ACT products
Qualifications for infrastructure specialist
- Proven experience maintaining and implementing Credentialing Systems including integration experience with the Transportation Security Clearinghouse (TSC), Automated Integration Services (AIS), California Department of Justice (Cal-DoJ), Access Control and Alarm Monitoring Systems and Appointment Scheduling Systems
- Experience with Credentialing System hardware including document scanners, fingerprint capture, signature capture, document readers, IRIS camera, PIN reader, CARD activation reader and printers
- Ability to obtain LAX security badge
- 10+ years experience working with EMC VMAX, NetApp FAS, Data OnTap, Brocade SAN switches
- 5+ years experience in VMWare ESXi, vCenter, Vrealize/VCAC setup
- 3+ years experience in RedHat Linux and IBM/Lenovo/Cisco servers