Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Job Type: Contract
Job Location: United States
Company Name: Mindlance

Company Overview

Founded in 1999, Mindlance is one of the largest diversity-owned staffing firms in the US and has been on SIA’s list of Fastest Growing US Staffing Firms for 10 years. Mindlance has also been recognized as one of the consistently best performing partners to industry-leading MSP programs including Allegis, Kelly, TAPFIN, PROUnlimited, Pontoon, GRI, WorkforceLogiq and Agile-1. What started with contingent staffing has developed to a comprehensive portfolio of workforce solutions. Along with industry specific, talent-centric staffing across a range of specializations- Technology, Engineering, Scientific, Clinical Research, Digital, Creative, Marketing, Profession, Mindlance provides Managed Recruitment services- RPO and Direct + Diverse Sourcing, and Pay+ Services- EoR/Payroll, IC Compliance and AoR. Mindlance is also generating alternative talent pipelines that prioritize diversity through three Diverse Talent Acceleration offerings: (1) RebootTalent, a diverse returning talent acceleration service (2) Mindlance Diversphere, a private diverse talent pool aggregated from a network of diversity partnerships and (3) Quintrix Solutions, an upskilling recruit-train-deploy service. With a year-over-year growth rate of 20% and an annual revenue of over $400 million and growing, the Mindlance story is one of calculable achievement, made meaningful by the commitment to grow a mindful way that creates balance in the work and societal ecosystem. Visit www.mindlance.com to learn more about us and our latest job openings. STAFFING INDUSTRY ANALYSTS RECOGNITIONS: Fastest Growing U.S. Staffing Firms (2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011) Largest U.S. Staffing Firms (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015) Largest Diversity-Owned U.S. Staffing Firms (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015) Largest IT Staffing Firms (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017) Largest Clinical & Scientific Staffing Firms (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017)

About the job

Please find details for this position below:

Client: Banking/Financial Industry

Title: Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer/Infrastructure Windows Engineer / Senior Infrastructure Windows Engineering Lead

Location: Charlotte, NC – Hybrid Roles

Duration: 12-24+ Month (s) Extend or Convert based on performances

Hiring Manager Notes:

Work within Innovations Lab within a server room to rack/stack/cable infrastructure.

Candidate does not have to come from an Enterprise level

10+ yrs of VM Ware , either NSX or V-sphere, running the environment & building from the ground up

Lay down the VMware vSphere Suite & Cluster (Operations & Engineering Background)

VMWare NSX (formerly NSX-T/Data Center)

Windows and Linux but more Windows, server, AD, DNS & group policy

Scripting like PowerShell AND Automations – Terraform

Deploying Ops systems

Some cloud exp. either Azure, GCP or Public Cloud

Deployed VMware w/ NSXT

Lay down the VMware suite

Build out the VMware environment

Build Images

Terraform or PowerShell

Automate the VMware

Job Descriptions:

What you bring:

  • A strong desire to be hands-on daily and provide operational and engineering support for a wide array of technology, encompassing physical hardware, operating systems, as well as software platforms.
  • A passionate and self-driven desire to learn new approaches and new technologies and with direction be able to independently problem solve and apply critical thinking skills to address technical challenges.
  • Proven ability to rapidly acquire new skills, adaptable, and eager to tackle new challenges.
  • Ability to take direction and work autonomously on assigned objectives.
  • Excels at working within a team environment to achieve shared goals.
  • Proven experience and technical knowledge in configuring, maintaining, supporting, troubleshooting and problem solving related to each of these core Infrastructure domains:
  • Compute
  • Storage
  • Networking
  • Virtualization

A track record engineering and operationalizing cross-platform operating systems and platforms, including customizing/packaging, deploying, supporting, patching and maintaining:

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019, 2022
  • Microsoft Windows 10/11
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, 9

Demonstrated advanced experience in deploying, configuring and running Microsoft Domain Services and related technologies:

  • Active Directory Domain Services
  • Group Policy Creation/Management
  • Desired State Image, Configuration and Drift Management
  • System Center / Endpoint Configuration Manager
  • Windows Update Services
  • Windows DNS

Firm operational and configuration knowledge of Virtualization and container technologies, especially:

  • VMware vSphere Suite
  • VMWare NSX (formerly NSX-T/Data Center)

Have working experience authoring automation scripts and using Infrastructure as Code tools, including:

  • Terraform
  • PowerShell
  • BASH

Administration and Engineering experience within a cloud platform, especially Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform

  • Experience working at the tenant level / organization level.
  • Hybrid Connectivity
  • Microsoft Entra ID
  • Google Workspace

Must be able to be onsite in Charlotte, NC when required or further necessary to perform physical work within the Innovation Labs environment.

  • Ability to work within a server room to rack/stack/cable infrastructure.
  • Ability to navigate above server racks or below sub-floors

Consider a plus:

  • Administering and Configuration of Red Hat Satellite
  • Experience with creating and using API endpoints.
  • Engineering Certifications in Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform
  • OpenShift and OpenShift Container Service
  • Experience with C# or other Higher-Level Object-Oriented languages

EEO:

“Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.

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