Sr Infrastructure Systems Engineer:

• Bar-raisers.  People that know what good looks like, don’t accept badness in either our technology or processes.  Resources capable of making it obvious that our team/members should be operating at a higher level, simply by the way they operate.
• High-energy and passion.  Relates to above.  Not asking people to sacrifice work-life balance, but we need people that are willing to bust it to achieve outcomes.
• Inquisitive and curious, not guided by shiny objects, but focusing on new/emerging ideas and tech that solves our problems.
• Learner – someone with the ability to use publicly-available content to quickly develop understanding of key technologies and systems, and apply them
• Product management mindset – Understanding of the entire product lifecycle – capable of building and maintaining products that are not only functional and secure, but integrate seamlessly into our management, monitoring, and support processes.
• Experience with digital transformation initiatives.  Comfortable with generating and operating within high velocity environments.
• Automation / DevOps MINDSET and tool SKILLSET.
• Mindset – constantly looking for opportunities to move work from manual to automated.  Progressive automation – Automate A, then B, then merge, then Automate C, and merge.  A desire/ability to progressively move through the stack. CI/CD mentality, creating flywheels.
• Skillset –
• Ansible, Chef, etc. 
• Coder/Scripter – proficient/experienced in PowerShell, python, other.  More importantly, have a software engineering mindset
• Ideally, exposure/experience on product-native automation/orchestration platforms like VMWare Aria
• Additionally, should include many, but not necessarily all, deep skills in the architecture, engineering, deployment, and support of:

1. Cloud-native services and architecture (GCP, Azure)
2. Containerization (OpenShift)
3. Virtualization (VMWare) and management platforms
4. Linux and Windows server platforms and management platforms
5. DataDog, OpsGenie, Nagios (or equivalent)
6. Information aggregation and correlation solutions

• Reasonable experience and expertise with Networking, Identity, and InfoSec technologies, tools and processes