Responsible for enterprise-wide Server technology standards, patterns and lifecycle. This includes: researching new products and changes/updates/patches for existing products – develop and define configuration, packaging and deployment standards as well as HA and DR strategies - development of product and technology patterns - testing and evaluating standards and patterns - writing comprehensive technical documentation.



Core Technologies include:

Must haves:

BMC Bladelogic
Oracle Solaris
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Other existing tech that will be nice to have:

1. Windows Server

2. Active Directory

3. VM Ware

4. Amazon Web Services

5. Oracle and HP Servers

6. Symantec Cluster Server

Project Experience Needed:

Bladelogic expertise with architecture design and platform deployment in a large and diverse enterprise environment.
Must be an SME with the Bladelogic platform as well as defining and implementing BL deployable packages and patch deployment methodologies for Solaris and RHEL

Accountabilities:

1. Author Product Design, Implementation and Support documentation

2. Provide support to the Solutions Engineering team towards designing solutions to meet project requirements

3. Develop methods to create repeatable and efficient procedures to deploy products

4. Develop frameworks and best practices for disaster recovery and high availability application design, DMZ application hosting, test environment specifications, etc that can be applied consistently to application infrastructure deployments

5. Manage the lifecycle of the full catalog of server technology products

Experience:

· Significant expertise (5 to 7 years) in defining, designing and deploying global business applications with both internal and external customer focus

· Solaris, RedHat, Microsoft and/or Symantec Certified

· Significant expertise and experience in defining philosophy and principles for global engineering in server related technologies.

· Powershell, Shell, Python, Pearl and Ruby scripting experience to automate tasks and procedures

· Self starter with desire to understand work and project objectives, not just execute

· Possesses a good understanding of IT service management

· Strong communication (oral and written) and influencing skills, with the ability to communicate new concepts, and drive change in process and behaviors.

· Significant experience with hardware and software products that provide high availability and disaster recovery functionality such as clustering and data caching and replication

· Significant experience with tuning database environments to ensure optimal performance

· Strong analytical focus, results-oriented and execution driven, with the ability to align technology developments with the generation of potential competitive business advantage.

· Ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies

· Ability to identify and elaborate enterprise-wide impact of major product technology trends.

· Has played a lead role in architecture, design and documentation of database infrastructure technologies, with SME knowledge in one or more related areas.

· Has significant experience in vendor management, communication with vendor engineering and vendor product development.

· Strong problem solving and root cause analysis skills, with the ability to identify learning opportunities, improve current processes.