Sr. Infrastructure Engineer - Contract

Proterra offers a dynamic and supportive workplace where our employees can thrive personally and professionally. With cutting-edge facilities and groundbreaking projects, Proterra offers unique opportunities to grow, collaborate, and lead transformative change in the electrification of heavy-duty transportation and equipment.

Our commitment to innovation extends beyond our battery solutions to our people, where we create an environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and empowered to drive change for the earth. Here at Proterra we strive to foster a culture of inclusivity, valuing diverse perspectives and encouraging bold ideas, allowing our employees to bring their full selves to work. Our employees benefit from competitive total rewards packages, and opportunities to develop professionally.

Position Overview:

This position will provide comprehensive Information Technology Architecture and advanced engineering support to Proterra's Director of IT & Infrastructure engineering and other technology leadership team members. As the Infrastructure Architect you will work with business and technology leadership product managers, domain architects and senior technologists to understand the holistic business strategy and then to identify, define and develop solution specific, cloud-native, IT architectures and product deliverables to support the company technology road map.

In this role, you will design and develop IT architecture (integrated process, applications, data, and technology) solutions to business problems in alignment with the enterprise architecture direction and standards. You will perform technical planning, participate heavily in project intake architecture development, and modification of specifications as well as develops specifications for new products, services and applications being introduced into Proterra for in-house use and customer facing. Work closely with our Project Management office to develop IT integration for the Information Technology project portfolio. This opportunity will also require that you assess the compatibility and integration of products and services proposed as standards in order to ensure an integrated architecture across interdependent technologies.

About the Role - You will:

• Architect Proterra's growing landscape for compute, storage, network, and cloud using modern best practices for automation, orchestration, and infrastructure as code.
• Work with our business partners to translate business requirements into technology solutions.
• Architect and implement projects in adherence to best practices, security, and architectural standards.
• Establish, architect, engineer, and implement procedures and processes to improve the efficiency and the quality of infrastructure applications and systems.
• Build modern infrastructure automation capabilities, AI-Operations for manufacturing and cloud analytics platforms.
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of Infrastructure capabilities technologies such as Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, SCCM/MECM/OSD, OKTA, DNS, Terraform, Ansible GitLab, Jenkins, VMware, Horizon VDI, AWS, Azure, O365, Windows Server, Linux, etc. to identify, anticipate, manage, and resolve complex problems.
• Develop business case justifications and cost/benefit analyses for technology spending and initiatives as well as cost models for projects.
• Create/update documentation (support, administration, user-procedures, quick reference guides) for all projects and designs.
• Document necessary technology architecture design and analysis work, possibly including project postmortem documentation and metric collection.
• Assist with designing the governance, assurance and standards activities associated with ensuring enterprise technology architecture compliance of projects and products.
• Drive future-state technology architecture and analyze and evaluate infrastructure technology.
• Assist with Infrastructure roadmaps and timelines, and high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the future and current state, typically in sync with the IT budgeting or other capital planning processes.
• Consult with client stakeholders and vendors on strategies for deployment of new infrastructure technology.
• Maintain architectural diagrams and reference models.
• Drive digital innovation by leveraging innovative technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and transform the existing core technology base and IT estate.
• Implement Architectural changes into lower and upper environments with cross functional teams and identify impacts to people, process, and technology.
• Demonstrate on-the-job experience with Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
• Provide high level escalation support for engineering teams. Support operation teams as T3 escalation group for incident response.
• Support infrastructure needs for manufacturing systems tied to Proterra's advanced manufacturing environments through engineering and architected technology environments.
• Other duties as assigned by management.

About Our Group:

• As strategic partners, the Information Technology team strives to ensure that our values, culture, and engagement always allow us to do great things for our company.
• We strive to provide the highest-level service and support to our clients daily.
• We work collaboratively to build strong relationships with our clients, partners, and own team.
• We treat each other with respectand always try to have a little fun every day!
• You will report to the and collaborate with other IT team members located in Greer SC and in Burlingame, CA.

Your Experience Includes:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems with 7 years of related information technology infrastructure experience, or 10 years of consecutive IT experience with recognized industry certifications.
• Extensive experience in the development and implementation of computer systems and networks for on premise and cloud systems (Windows, Linux, VMware, AWS, Hyper-V)
• Technical experience and knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory, Windows Server, Linux, O365, VMware vCenter, SAML/SSO, Networking, Hyperconverged/Traditional Compute+SAN
• Strong knowledge of implementing infrastructure as code and operational runbooks
• Technical knowledge experience and knowledge of AWS (Aurora, RDS, EC2, VPC, IAM, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform) is a plus
• Proven documentation skills and ability to write policies, procedures, and instructions.
• Ability to be hands on and technical to support systems and infrastructure.
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.

Desired:

• One or more Infrastructure and Cloud Certifications.
• MSCE Core Infrastructure, MCSA 2012R2, 2016, 2019, MCP, MTA Security Fundamentals
• Cisco Certified Networking Associate, CCNP Security or Data Center highly desirable
• VMware Certified Professional (VCP7-CMA)

Designed and assembled in the United States, Proterra's innovative battery platform offers industry-leading energy density, durability, performance and safety systems - enabling Proterra EV batteries to be the premium choice for commercial vehicles and industrial equipment.

Proterra's battery technology offers industry-leading energy density, safety systems, and durability. Proudly designed in Silicon Valley and assembled in Greer, South Carolina, Proterra batteries are the premier choice to electrify commercial vehicles ranging from buses and trucks to construction equipment and more. Proterra is building innovative battery technology to power a better, more sustainable world.

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