Job Details:
The Staff Infrastructure Engineer is a professional with extensive mainframe experience responsible for supporting, maintaining, and enhancing an organization's IT infrastructure. This role involves working with various technologies to ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of infrastructure components.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Infrastructure Maintenance: Perform regular maintenance and updates on servers, networks, and other infrastructure components to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
• Support and Troubleshooting: Provide technical support for infrastructure-related issues, diagnose problems, and implement solutions promptly.
• Implementation: Assist in deploying and configuring new infrastructure components, ensuring they meet business requirements and standards.
• Monitoring: Implement and manage monitoring tools to track the health and performance of the infrastructure and respond to alerts and incidents.
• Automation: Develop and maintain automation scripts to streamline infrastructure management tasks and improve operational efficiency.
• Security: Ensure that infrastructure components are secure and compliant with industry standards and regulations.
• Collaboration: Work closely with other IT teams, including development, operations, and security, to ensure seamless integration and support of infrastructure services.
• Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of infrastructure configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
• Perform other assigned job-related duties that align with our organization's vision, mission, and values and fall within your scope of practice.
Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's Degree or relevant experience. Computer Science or Computer Engineering Preferred.
Preferred Certification(s): Any relevant IT Certification.
Experience: 7+ years of relevant and practical mainframe experience.
Special Skills:
• Networking: In-depth knowledge of network design, protocols, and security to ensure robust and secure communication within the infrastructure.
• Security Architecture: Understanding of cybersecurity best practices and the ability to design secure infrastructure solutions.
• Systems Design and Engineering: Ability to design scalable, reliable, and efficient systems that meet business requirements.
• Performance Engineering: Skills in optimizing infrastructure performance and ensuring high availability and reliability.
• Data Modeling and Database Design: Knowledge of data modeling and database design to support data-driven applications.
• Strategic Planning and Roadmapping: Ability to align IT strategy with business goals and plan future technology initiatives.
Soft Skills:
• Problem-solving: Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Communication: Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Leadership: Excellent leadership and team motivation skills.
• Strategic Thinking: Strategic thinking and business acumen.
• Emotional Intelligence: Understanding and managing team dynamics effectively
• Presentation Skills: Delivering technical presentations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Change Management: Guiding teams through technological transitions and upgrades.
Core Responsibilities:Work with internal stakeholders to understand business and technical requirements. Support Tyson mainframe teams by providing guidance to Tyson application group as well as oversight of service provider system support teams. Develop and support policies, procedures, and guidelines to continually improve efficiency of mainframe native application deployments and infrastructure deployments Always looking to improve resource optimization and cost optimization as it relates to mainframe resources or automation. Interface closely with Operation team.
Role Specific Skills:Ability to resolve complex mainframe issues quickly using solid analytical skills. A desire to solve problems with an engineering mindset that seeks to increase efficiency through automation. Ability to produce clear, business-friendly documentation of ideas, requirements, architecture, and problems. Generate tickets on either Tyson or service provider's ServiceNow for tracking of requests. Interface with internal and external auditing groups for periodic security verification.
Preferred Skills:Experience with some of the following or equivalents: RACF, DB2, IMS, CICS, TSO, JCL, MQSeries, JES2/SDSF, Librarian, TMON, FDRABR, DFSMS, MacKinney software products, Syncsort, Mobius, Enterprise Print Manager, VFTP, Netview, CSAR scheduler, SNA communication protocol, FTP/SFTP protocol.
** Not eligible for visa sponsorship now or in the future **
** Not eligible for relocation assistance **
Relocation Assistance Eligible:
No
Work Shift:
1ST SHIFT (United States of America)
Hourly Applicants ONLY -You must complete the task after submitting your application to provide additional information to be considered for employment.
The successful candidate(s) must be willing and able to perform the physical requirements of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation.
We provide our team members and their families with paid time off; 401(k) plans; affordable health, life, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; and more.
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