The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s/applicant’s qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship not available.

Our client is seeking a Principal SRE (Network)- PaaS RFP in Denver, CO.

Role Description

- Actively and consistently supports all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
- Continuous evaluation and engineering of new and existing server infrastructure capabilities and features, to ensure requirements are met for both existing applications and new product services.
- Contributes to architectural discussions, with both internal and external peers, to ensure proposed solutions are meeting business and operational needs.
- Collaborates with other engineering and operational organizations to understand requirements and challenges and recommend solutions.
- Responsible for automating the compute certification, bare metal provisioning automation, domain specific automations, etc.
- Responsible for creation and maintain documentation including Compute Certifications, Implementation guides, bulletins, and design documents.
- Sets standards for approved infrastructure deployments and integrations.
- Support and maintain existing lab infrastructure leveraging defined ticketing and resource scheduling processes.
- The ability to multi-task and juggle between priorities as needed.
- Works with leadership to refine and effect current processes.
- Performs other duties as requested by manager.
- Assist in designing and implementing scalable, secure private cloud infrastructure using platforms like VMware vSphere, OpenStack, Nutanix, or similar.
- Translate architectural blueprints into operational infrastructure.
- Develop and maintain IaC templates using tools like Terraform, Ansible to automate provisioning and configuration of private cloud resources.
- Manage code repositories and promote best practices in code reuse and modularization.
- Support day-to-day operations of private cloud environments including compute, networking, storage, and virtualization layers.
- Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues, including resource allocation, capacity, and network performance.
- Serve as Tier 2/3 support for private cloud issues escalated from operations or application teams.
- Collaborate with developers, system admins, and DevOps teams to resolve incidents and service requests.
- Work with network, storage, and security teams to integrate their services into the private cloud.
- Assist application teams in onboarding and migrating workloads to the private cloud.
- Write and maintain technical documentation, including setup guides, support runbooks, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Participate in code reviews, knowledge sharing sessions, and internal tech forums to promote team learning and best practices

Skills & Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering and/or related and/or equivalent work experience.
- Extensive experience engineering, integrating and designing data center infrastructure solutions including rack/blade server hardware, virtualization platforms, SAN switching, storage technologies, basic networking and Cloud Management Platforms.
- Extensive experience working with Composable Infrastructure such as Liqid or GigaIO
- Advanced experience designing both physical and virtual solutions for cloud architectures leveraging both blade and rack mount server platforms.
- Advanced experience designing and engineering Software Defined Data Center solutions for workload optimization and placement.
- Advanced experience with Cisco UCS-X, UCS-C Series infrastructure, UCS Central and Cisco Intersight.
- Advanced experience with Dell R Series servers and Dell OME
- Advanced experience with HPE Proliant servers and HP One View
- Advanced experience working with MaaS platforms and automated deployment
- Advanced knowledge of Workflow Orchestration platforms, and Container technologies including Kubernetes and Docker.
- Proficient with BASH, Python, Javascript, Ansible, Terraform, Redfish or similar scripting language.
- Advanced knowledge in robot framework to automate QA testing and robotic processes.
- Understanding of infrastructure logging and monitoring solutions, for alerting and reporting.
- Advanced experience with automated builds of new datacenter infrastructure deployments leveraging Workflow Automation platforms.
- Advanced experienced in creating technical drawings and schematicsusing Lucid chart or visio.
- Advanced experience working in a SAFe/Agile environment utilizing Jira Portfolio/Jira Align to manage projects and daily tasks.
- Advanced experience with TestRail to streamline testing processes.
- Experience with CMP service catalog creation.

Benefits/Other Compensation

This position is a contract/temporary role where Hays offers you the opportunity to enroll in full medical benefits, dental benefits, vision benefits, 401K and Life Insurance ($20,000 benefit).

Why Hays?

You will be working with a professional recruiter who has intimate knowledge of the industry and market trends. Your Hays recruiter will lead you through a thorough screening process in order to understand your skills, experience, needs, and drivers. You will also get support on resume writing, interview tips, and career planning, so when there’s a position you really want, you’re fully prepared to get it.

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Hays is committed to building a thriving culture of diversity that embraces people with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better we serve our candidates, clients, and employees. We are an equal employment opportunity employer, and we comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, genetic information, HIV-positive status, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. One of Hays’ guiding principles is ‘do the right thing’.
We also believe that actions speak louder than words.
In that regard, we train our staff on ensuring inclusivity throughout the entire recruitment process and counsel our clients on these principles. If you have any questions about Hays or any of our processes, please contact us.

In accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law protecting qualified individuals with known disabilities, Hays will attempt to reasonably accommodate those individuals unless doing so would create an undue hardship on the company. Any qualified applicant or consultant with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should call or text 813.336.5570.

Drug testing may be required; please contact a recruiter for more information.

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