Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Location: West Des Moines, IA Salary: $65.00 USD Hourly - $70.00 USD Hourly Description: Our client is currently seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer for a large scale Financial Service company.

• Main Needs: -Expertise in Ansible -Hands On with Puppet -Experience with migration to automation (this is his current main project that is consistent amongs LOBs) -Enterprise JenkinsPuppet Lead complex initiatives to develop infrastructure to provide solutions for business applications.
• Participate in various projects intended to continually improve or upgrade the infrastructure.
• Evaluate internal and external software solutions which could be leveraged to meet target state architecture goals.
• Review and analyze high impact outages to ensure the proper processes and procedures are in place to avoid problems in the future.
• Design, build, deploy and maintain infrastructure solutions through collaborative efforts with the team and third party vendors.
• Design, code, test, debug and document programs using Agile development practices.
• Make decisions in technical designs, implementation plans and identify project risks and resource requirements.
• Direct the daily risk and control flow of operations, focusing on policies, procedures and work standards to ensure success.
• Recommend courses of action to maintain cost effectiveness and achieve results. Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.
• Interact with customer and vendor.

• Required Qualifications: 5+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• Minimum 4 years of Enterprise Jenkins Experience.
• Minimum 4 year of RedHat Linux and Windows Server experience.
• Minimum 4 years of Shell or Powershell scriting experience.
• Minimum 3-4 years of build tools experience (Maven, Gradle, NPM and/or MSBUILD).
• Very Good Problem solving or trouble shooting skills.
• Self learner with minimum dependency on the team.
• Knowledge of configuration management tools like Ansible and Puppet.