TITLE: Lead Platform Specialist - Infrastructure

LOCATION: Orange CT, Rochester NY, Brewster NY, Augusta ME

SALARY RANGE: S The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from $118.5k to 139.5k

Job Title: Lead Platform Specialist - Infrastructure

Business Area: Avangrid Networks\\Operational Smart Grids

Job Category: Professional

Reports To: Infrastructure Manager or Platform Services Supervisor

Purpose:

Definition, maintenance, and support of Operational Smart Grids (OSG) infrastructure operational policies, standards, best practices, procedures, tools, and projects in support of efficient, resilient, and secure operations of OSG supported applications and facilities.

Leads the technical directions for teams and external vendors to provide operational support for a diverse set of operational enterprise services. Monitor operational performance to identify opportunities for improvement. Align the operational requirements with relevant global/corporate operational requirement(s), security framework(s) and/or associated regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities:

Strong Microsoft Operating System knowledge
Experience in Microsoft Active Directory and Group Policy design and management•
The Systems Engineer, Active Directory & Windows Servers will be responsible for the design, maintenance, management, and support of all aspects of the Microsoft Windows Server and Active Directory (AD) infrastructure, ensuring the security, integrity, and availability of authentication, authorization and LDAP related services
This individual will also be responsible for the build, testing and upgrade initiatives for the AD and Windows Server infrastructure
Provide capacity planning and performance monitoring to sustain and improve server availability and efficiency
Provide 3rd level support for Windows Servers, & Desktops
Active Directory for end users, application, web, and infrastructure teams
Redhat Enterprise Linux (Physical and Virtual (VMware) Environment)
experience with Linux/Unix and Unix shell scripting
Redhat Satellite Server and Ansible experience
Experience in standing up new services and tools on virtual machines within a Linux environment.
Experience with Gitlab, Docker, and repo mirrors
Experience with Python
PowerShell, and Bash scripting
Familiar with VMware ESXi and VSphere
Familiar with virtualization network on multiple classifications
Familiarity with Multiple HCI technologies
Maintain regulatory compliance under NERC/CIP guidelines.
Maintain high quality security controls surrounding the critical SCADA systems.
Perform/coordinate special assignments from OSG Infrastructure Management.
Provide 24x7 on call support.
Provide professional and technical mentoring for team members.

Requirements & Qualifications:

Education: BS/BA Degree in Business, Computer Science, or other technical discipline. MA/MS Degree preferred. Will consider additional years of relevant experience and/or related technical certifications in lieu of degree requirement (in accordance with the FLSA Computer Professionals Exemption)

Education and Experience Requirements: Meet at least one of the following:

AS Technical Related Degree with 15 years’ technical experience.
BS Technical Related Degree with 10 years’ technical experience
MS Technical Related Degree with 7 years’ technical experience

Experience:

Position requires a minimum of five (7) years’ experience working with infrastructure solutions in an enterprise environment. Position requires professional experience with more than one of the following areas:

Data Center Operations, Disaster Recover/Business Continuity Planning & Execution, Security & Compliance Management, Infrastructure Operational Policies & Procedures, and/or Technical Project Coordination. Fundamental understanding of UNIX Operating Systems (OS), Linux OS, Microsoft OS, Active Directory, VMware, Citrix, Networking, Routing, Firewalls, Security tools and/or scripting. (Associated certifications are preferred.)

Note: The above Key Responsibilities/Duties are not intended to be all inclusive. Employees in this position may be required to perform other related aspects of the job not listed above or listed under Purpose/Major Objectives as assigned by the supervisor.

Must possess ability to deal collaboratively, diplomatically, and successfully with customers, co‐workers and other professional colleagues, managers, and staff.
Must be able to work effectively in a team environment, as well as work independently with limited supervision.
Must have excellent problem‐solving skills while providing first class customer service. Requires outstanding oral and written communication skills.
Each employee must accept responsibility for their own safety and health as well as the safety and health of their fellow employees.

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