DC Engineer Specialist

Company Overview:

Wolters Kluwer Global Business Services is designed to provide services to the business units in the areas of technology, sourcing, procurement, legal, finance, and accounting which includes our North American-Accounting Center. These global centers promote team collaboration using best practices around a specific focus area to drive results and enhance operational efficiencies. There is a constant endeavor to benchmark against best-in-class industry standards to improve the quality of deliverables, increase cost savings, enhance productivity and reduce time to market for products and applications

Position Overview:

The IT Operations Team is a part of Wolters Kluwer Global Business Services (GBS). GBS is designed to provide services to the business units in the areas of technology, sourcing, procurement, legal, finance, and accounting which includes our North American-Accounting Center. These global centers promote team collaboration using best practices around a specific focus area to drive results and enhance operational efficiencies. There is a constant endeavor to benchmark against best-in-class industry standards to improve the quality of deliverables, increase cost savings, enhance productivity and reduce time to market for products and applications.

We are looking for Sr IT Operations Analyst with the following technical skills

10 years of hands-on experience managing compute, storage and network environment in a co-location data center.

10 years of experience managing VMWare and Hyper-v environments.

5 years of hands-on experience managing and troubleshooting Active Directory

Direct experience performing on On-prem Infra to Cloud migration projects.

5-10 years of experience troubleshooting issues with virtualized Windows servers.

5 years of experience of supporting Azure Infrastructure

Deep knowledge of Networking tools and Network related troubleshooting.

Deep knowledge of storage and backup administration

ITIL experience and experience on Release and Build deployment experience

Understanding of app and infra monitoring tools. (AppDynamics, OpsRamp, Solarwinds, Zabbix, Axonius, BigFix, etc)

Hands on Experience on Microsoft Azure and Azure Devops.
Knowledge of IAAS/PAAS on Windows Azure Cloud Platform

Knowledge of Azure Load Balancers/AppGateways/Traffic Managers/Azure File Shares

Hands on Experience on IIS administration.

Knowledge of application deployment and Build Repo tools like Azure Devops/ /Jenkins/Octopus/Bladelogic.

ITIL certified is a preference.

Experience on Application Operations and Azure Devops skills are preferred.

Powershell scripting knowledge

Essential Duties and responsibilities:

IT Operations

Uses appropriate tools to deploy and troubleshoot applications and deployments.

Follow all the processes defined by the Business to ensure the expected outcomes

Application installation, management, upgrade and maintenance.

Effective use of IT infrastructure components and monitors their performance Monitor applications and troubleshoot to ensure 100 % system availability.

Provide Feedback to dev and QA teams to follow the best application deployment and ITIL processes.

Maintain technical documentations

Relationships and engagement:

Implements Team engagement/ good communications with Team and relevant stakeholders, for example handling of incidents; problems and issues; managing resolutions; change management corrective actions and lessons learned collection and dissemination of relevant information. Uses feedback from customers and stake holders for effective work relationship.

Job Qualifications & Experience

Education:

Preferred: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

Preferred Domain Expertise Certificates depending on role:

Azure Certified

Windows / VMWare Certified

Experience

10 years IT Experience

7-10 years of experience within an IT Operations Role

7-10 years of experience working with Cloud Computing

Other Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications:

Experience in migrating services to Public Cloud (Azure)

Soft Skills Required

Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities

Excellent communication and presentation skills

Strong client-service orientation

Sound business acumen and strategic skills

Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills; including strong presentation skills.

Strong client-service orientation

A positive attitude and the ability to thrive in a collaborative environment.

Outstanding organizational skills

Ability to collaborate effectively at all levels and functions