Principal Engineer

Summary Of Responsibilities

The designated Automation Engineer provides deep technical expertise and is tasked with the responsibility for the co-planning, co-design, implementation, operations and on-going maintenance of the new Data Center and Campus covering the on-premises virtualization platform, compute, fiber-channel based storage, enterprise backup and the consumption of ancillary Cloud services.

Key Areas Of Responsibilities

• Key participant in a cross-functional team (consisting of network, storage, compute, security) which will be leading the planning, design, implementation and operations of our Future State Architecture (FSA).
• Future State Architecture will cover the following minimally : product selection of compute, fiber-channel storage arrays, enterprise backup appliances, physical and logical placement of systems elements, design and implementation of ancillary tools and services such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, Terraform, Vagrant, Postgres + Corosync, Postfix, DHCP, DNS, NTP, Grafana and syslog collectors among others.
• Responsible for the detailed planning and execution of the multi-year phased services migration (JomPAY, FPX, DuitNow et al) to the Future State Architecture with minimal downtime from a systems perspective.
• Keep abreast on emerging systems technologies which may be appropriate for adoption which would supplement our agility and provide the foundation to execute organization goals in an expedited manner.
• Acts as the deployment lead for the design, installation, operation, service and maintenance of any BAU systems solution and implementation (across various layers).
• May lead systems integration with external entities to ensure a successful implementation, when necessary.
• Participates in any computer emergency response team in response to various security incidents such as denial-of-service attacks, malware infestations and internal fraud attempts.
• To build the foundation to facilitate automated patch updates across the infrastructure.
• To build and enhance the systems monitoring capability : capacity, response and service degradation.
• To maintain an accurate record reflecting the current and historical systems settings including the decision-making rationale for said configuration.
• To inculcate the best practices, operational discipline and guidelines across the systems team.
• To participate in yearly audit exercises and ensure requirements are adhered to at all times.

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Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

Technical Qualifications