IT Infrastructure Engineer

Job Provider: HHL

Department: IT

Reporting to: IT Manager

Work location: Malta

Expected travel %: 20%

Territory Responsibility: Group

Working hours: Full-time

Status: Indefinite Contract

Hudson Group is an international retailer and distributor primarily involved in the sport and fashion wear sectors. The Group’s head office is in Malta but is also present through offices in Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Morocco, Nigeria, Kenya and Algeria.

Though Hudson Holdings was founded in 2006, the Group’s roots reach as far back as 1987 when the first pair of NIKE was sold in Malta.

Role purpose

Reporting to the Technical Lead, the IT Infrastructure Engineer has a key role in the successful running of the IT function. This person will be responsible to maintain a highly available server infrastructure for deploying instances, applying operating system updates, managing configuration changes, and system tuning. This candidate will have experience with both application and infrastructure, with experience maintaining a hybrid on-prem and cloud infrastructure. The candidate will participate in assessing existing platforms, designing future state, and building transition in order to migrate both applications and infrastructure to a highly resilient environment.

The key duties and responsibilities of the role are as follows:

• Build, design, deploy, maintain and lead the implementation of Cloud solutions across multiple public cloud offerings, e.g. AWS, Microsoft Azure
• Help implement the technology direction, vision, and strategy to enable Cloud technology adoption
• Implement and refine cloud future state architectures and roadmaps including architecture standards, guidelines, and industry best practices.
• Responsible for Identity Management
• Responsible for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
• Responsible for Document Management Strategy
• Act as project lead around business initiatives such as new office sites, store openings, warehouses, etc.
• Develop, enhance, and maintain automation of cloud enablement tools
• Recognize and resolve all business issues and impact
• Assess urgency of issues and facilitate follow-up and resolution accordingly including service quality initiatives to support a “five nines” product availability environment
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required; maintain data center environmental and monitoring equipment.
• Participate in the design, implementation and management of workload automation initiatives
• Adhere to firm Change Management, Problem Management policies and familiarity with ITIL or other formalized IT operations foundations

Key Stakeholders

Reporting line:

• IT Technical Lead

Direct Reports:

• None

KPIs

• System Uptime
• Incident Response Time
• Infrastructure Scalability
• Security Compliance
• Deployment Time
• Cost Optimization
• Technical Documentation
• Customer Satisfaction
• Change Management Efficiency
• Professional Development

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience.

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
• Minimum 2 years working with cloud platforms.
• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft and Linux based systems including Hardware, software, networking and storage.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure AD DS and Virtualisations such as Proxmox, HyperV and Vmware
• Experience architecting cloud infrastructure such as Microsoft Azure and AWS for small, medium scale and enterprise level applications.
• Broad experience with cloud adoption, including application readiness assessment, prototyping of new environments, server builds, data migration, performance tuning of cloud environments.
• Technical knowledge of infrastructure components such as Network, Storage, Linux/Windows, Application knowledge of Java, .Net, and IT security.
• Experience with configuring software defined networking and security configurations, including security groups and ACLs.
• Experience with DevOps procedures and processes and with working in an Agile environment.
• Experience with troubleshooting very complex distributed environments pertaining to connectivity and application performance and monitoring tools and offering high-level strategic planning and advice to an entity that will allow for the successful adoption or migration of Cloud-based technologies or services.
• You are a good communicator and fluent in English.
• You are able to manage third party suppliers.
• You are willing to travel.
• Have a valid driving license

Qualifications

• Degree level qualifications in a Technology related subject.
• Cisco CCNP Enterprise is required. Candidates with Cisco DevNet and Cybercops Associate or above will be highly preferred.
• Linux CompTIA LX0-104 or LPIC-1 or better.
• Microsoft MCSA Core Infrastructure.
• Candidates with any of these Palo alto certificates will be highly desirable, PCNSE, PCNSA,PCSFE,PCDRA and PCSAE.
• Any Public cloud certifications, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud or Amazon Web Services (AWS), will be considered as an asset.
• Proxmox & Vmware Certifications will be an asset. Candidates with any VCP or above certificate are highly desirable.