Senior Infrastructure Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to work on a 6 month contract for a leading financial services company in Zurich.

*750CHF+ per day*

MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS:

- Overall virtualization experience: strong VMWare background - VCP qualified, good Nutanix knowledge and some Xenserver experience
- 3+ years experience with Linux administration (Ubuntu, Linux, RedHat)
- Base Windows knowledge
- Strong technical experience and troubleshooting skills on SAN storage, 3PAR preferred
- Sound Scripting/programming skills in languages such as python, Perl, bash, nodejs, Java, go lang, powershell
- Hands-on experience with monitoring tools, covering all infrastructure components, using tools such as Nagios, Zabbix, ELK, SCOM etc.
- LDAP, authentication and PKI knowledge
- A person who is experienced with design and engineering new infrastructure solutions from scratch, based on the above infrastructure skills; not somebody from a pure support background, but will act as a 3 rd line of support when needed
- Proactively work on the latest software and hardware releases ensuring support and maintenance agreements are always valid
- Practical experience of either AWS or Azure
- Knowledge of configuration management tools (one or more: saltstack, chef, puppet, ansible, Microsoft DSC)
- Flexibility: Saturday, Sunday, overnight work, on-call
- Diploma in Engineering, Computer Science or IT Professional certification
- Fluent English

PREFERRABLE ATTRIBUTES:

- NetScaler Gateway
- Networking: Avaya Switches
- Firewalls: Juniper, Checkpoint
- Data Center management
- Citrix XenDesktop 7.x.
- DevOps stack experience (CI/CD tools: Jenkins, artifactory, Nexus, git)
- Vendor management
- Sound knowledge of Databases: SQL and Oracle