Automation of infrastructure delivery with configuration orchestration and management solutions (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Terraform).

• Understanding of coding practices and developing in a preferred scripting language (e.g. PowerShell, Python, UNIX Shell Scripting).

• Experience with Operating System hardening practices as well as methodologies for templating deployments from a set of standardized images.

• Linux and Windows systems engineering principles.

• Java application server (e.g. JBOSS EAP, Tomcat) implementation.

• Compute virtualization for both in-house developed and commercial off the shelf software leveraging VMware’s technology stack and converged storage solutions utilizing Pure Storage.

Ideally, they will have experience with one or more of the following as well:

• Middleware solutions (e.g. IBM MQ, Kafka, Confluent).

• DevOps principles and CI/CD solutions (e.g. GitLab, Jenkins).

• Software engineering with an emphasis on Java software development.

• Containerization of applications, preferably with an emphasis towards Kubernetes, specifically OpenShift.

• Implementation of service catalog automation for delivery of infrastructure services.

• Incident triage including scope determination, impact assessment and service restoration