Work set-up: Hybrid
Work location: Paranaque City
Work schedule: Nigh shift
Job Summary:
The Sr Infra Architect / Lead administrator will be responsible for end-to-end planning and solution design support for enterprise infrastructure platforms. This role provides architectural guidance and oversight for Linux/Unix operating systems, upgrades, layered software deployments, and core infrastructure services. The architect/lead will contribute to solution design, capacity planning, and lifecycle management to ensure platforms remain secure, reliable, scalable, and compliant over time.
Job Duties:
- Designing and deploying scalable, highly available, fault tolerant, and reliable systems
- Lead the design of the server, network, and storage architecture for hardware, virtualized and cloud-based infrastructures and application services
- Lead cross functional teams to help develop solutions for management, monitoring, testing, backup, disaster recovery, etc.
- Continually research and assess emerging technologies and services to evaluate their potential value to the organization and its stakeholders.
- Stay informed about various service models and delivery methods to allow customers to match them to specific project requirements and use cases
- Manage operations of Redhat Linux servers; including database, web servers, ldap servers.
- Manage Identity Provider and authentication services, Eg. Redhat Satellite services, and configuration management services like Ansible and Salt
- Manage Tomcat servers and Java applications
- Plan and schedule software installations and upgrades to operating systems in accordance with established IT policies and procedures; develop and deploy new services as appropriate.
- Ensure systems achieve optimum performance levels.
- Responsible for system security and integrity by evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions.
- Develop and promote standard operating procedures.
- Develop and document internal processes.
- Responsible for hardware and software audits of servers to ensure compliance with established policies, standards, and configuration guidelines.
- Responsible for planning and organizing the installations of new applications, distributing software upgrades, monitoring daily activity, enforcing licensing agreements, developing storage management, and providing routine backups.
- Oversee programs in administrative languages such as Python, Perl, Java Script, and shell scripts.
- Collaborate with team members on the design, implementation, and support of standardized automation systems.
- Collaborate with team members in the development of new projects and services arising from the academic and technical needs of supported groups.
- May provide leadership and/or guidance to personnel.
- Participation in an on-call rotation and after-hours support is required.
- Excellent troubleshooting, debugging, and diagnostic skills.
- Solid understanding of networking concepts, including routing, subnets, DNS, and software firewall configurations
- Familiarity with containers and API scripting
- Forecast infrastructure needs for long term plan
Preferred Skills:
- Experience administering and supporting (IdP) and Service Provider (SP) systems, including configuration, maintenance, and integration with SAML-based authentication services. Preferred experience with Shibboleth Identity Provider
- Demonstrated expertise in architecting AWS solutions, automating cloud infrastructure and services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform)
Optional Skills:
- Experience administering and managing OpenSearch or ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack, including deployment, configuration, performance tuning, and monitoring.
Basic Qualifications:
- B.S. in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or equivalent is required. M.S. Preferred. 10 years experience with system administration is also necessary.
- The selected candidate must pass a pre-employment background investigation to be hired for this position.
- Five years of experience using and supporting the Linux operating system is required, as is excellent customer relations, written, and oral communication skills.
- Five years of hands-on experience managing and supporting AWS cloud environments, including core services such as EC2, S3, IAM, and VPC
