Senior Infrastructure Engineer - 4678979008-6062

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**Schedule: Full Time

Employment**

**Job Type: Hybrid**

**Salary Type: Salary**

**Req #: 1209**

**About the Role**

Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you

enjoy solving complex technical problems in a fast-paced, collaborative,

inclusive, and iterative delivery environment? At Uber Freight, you\'ll

be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers, and disruptors, who

love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking

a Senior Automation and Virtualization Engineer who is passionate about

creating and supporting emerging technologies to join our team. As a

senior engineer, you\'ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of

driving a major transformation within Uber Freight.

**What the candidate will do**

**Automation**

- Design and implement automation solutions using PowerShell, Ansible,

Terraform, Jenkins, Python, or other tools to streamline and

optimize operational processes such as provisioning, configuration,

patching, backup, recovery, monitoring, and auditing.

- Move the organization towards Infrastructure as Code (IaC) through

elimination of existing manual steps / legacy system designs.

- Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentoring to a team of

existing infrastructure engineers that lack significant automation

experience.

- Advance the adoption of DevOps principles by implementing CI/CD

pipelines and automating infrastructure provisioning using tools

like Jenkins, Ansible, or Terraform.

- Plan, coordinate, and execute Windows and Linux infrastructure and

automation projects, including scoping, budgeting, scheduling,

resourcing, risk management, and stakeholder communication.

- Streamline KTLO processes to reduce manual work.

- Research and evaluate new technologies and solutions to improve the

Windows and Linux infrastructure and automation capabilities of the

company.

- Diagnose and resolve issues with automation systems promptly and

efficiently.

- Integrate automation tools with existing systems, including APIs,

databases, and enterprise software, ensuring seamless

interoperability.

- Ensure the accuracy, performance, and reliability of automation

tools through rigorous testing and debugging processes.

- Design and support automated jobs deployed from ticketing system

(Service Now and Jira) for new VM builds and changes to existing

builds.

**Virtualization**

- Streamline and mature the Linux and Windows VM server deployment

process currently kicked off from AWX.

- Establish and enforce Windows and Linux infrastructure automation

standards, guidelines, and procedures, and conduct regular reviews

and audits to ensure compliance.

- Deploy, manage, and maintain virtualization platforms (VMware and

Proxmox).

- Escalate and drive issues related to support of virtualization

platforms.

- Support and maintain hybrid virtualization and containerized

environments, integrating with Kubernetes.

- Administer and fine-tune Linux systems to support virtualized

infrastructure and containerized workloads.

- Work with application teams to assist in deploying virtual workloads

as needed.

- Engage in service capacity planning, demand forecasting, and system

tuning.

**General**

- Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to

incorporate best practices and innovative solutions into the

automation strategy.

- Develop automated incident response mechanisms, track critical

system metrics, and participate in an on-call rotation for

high-priority issues.

- Install, configure, and test high availability and disaster recovery

solutions.

- Join high sever ty incident calls and lead troubleshooting efforts

for quick recovery.

- Work collaboratively with other IT team members to resolve complex

issues and implement improvements.

- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to Windows and Linux

infrastructure and automation, and provide root cause analysis and

remediation plans.

- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for tools, scripts,

workflows, and processes, ensuring clarity, usability, and

accessibility for all stakeholders.

- Support vulnerability management by scanning, automating, and

remediating vulnerabilities.

- Improve integration and collaboration with other teams on validating

their systems before and after regular monthly patching cycles (unit

testing opportunity).

- Participate in additional projects based on changing business needs

and priorities.

**Basic Qualifications**

Strong communication and leadership abilities, including the capacity to

mentor less-experienced engineers, facilitate cross-team collaboration,

and serve as a technical thought leader.

Strong experience and expertise in automating provisioning,

configuration management, and KTLO tasks using Ansible and Terraform.

Strong experience and expertise in deploying Infrastructure as