Systems Engineer - Infrastructure & Disaster Recovery (National Talent)

Job Objective

Infrastructure Platform Administration

• Administer supported Windows Server and enterprise Linux environments.
• Provision, configure, patch, upgrade, and decommission physical and virtual servers.
• Administer Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, file services, and assigned infrastructure services.
• Maintain security hardening and supported-version standards.
• Monitor availability, performance, capacity, and resource utilization and resolve complex incidents.
• Support server migration, consolidation, lifecycle renewal, and technology refresh activities.

Virtualization and Containers

• Administer approved virtualization platforms and clusters and provision, resize, migrate, and decommission virtual machines.
• Maintain high availability, resource balancing, live migration, and host, cluster, and virtual-machine monitoring.
• Administer Kubernetes cluster and node lifecycle, access controls, certificates, platform health, high availability, backups, and restoration.
• Troubleshoot control-plane, node, scheduling, capacity, and cluster-level incidents.
• Coordinate application deployments and workload requirements with DevOps and Application teams.

Backup and Data Protection

• Administer enterprise backup and recovery platforms for servers, virtual machines, file systems, infrastructure services, and assigned components.
• Maintain backup schedules, retention requirements, storage policies, replication, and recovery copies.
• Monitor backup, replication, and recovery activities and resolve failed or incomplete jobs.
• Conduct restoration tests and maintain secure, immutable, or isolated recovery copies.
• Identify coverage, capacity, and recoverability gaps and maintain restoration procedures and reports.

Disaster Recovery

• Maintain systems-domain disaster-recovery procedures, recovery sequences, and technical runbooks.
• Align recovery arrangements with approved recovery priorities, Recovery Time Objectives, and Recovery Point Objectives.
• Maintain dependencies and recovery procedures for servers, virtual machines, infrastructure services, Kubernetes, and selected cloud workloads.
• Execute restoration, failover, failback, and disaster-recovery exercises and validate post-recovery health.
• Record recovery results and gaps, recommend improvements, and maintain patched, operational recovery environments.
• Reflect production changes in recovery configurations, capacity requirements, and runbooks.

Cloud and Automation

• Administer selected cloud virtual machines, storage, and infrastructure-recovery services.
• Conduct approved cloud recovery tests, failovers, reprotection, and failback activities.
• Monitor cloud infrastructure availability, performance, and resource utilization.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, patching, monitoring, and recovery activities.
• Maintain scripts, templates, and configuration files in approved version-control repositories.
• Apply testing, peer review, security validation, and change control to automated infrastructure changes.
• Identify configuration drift and repetitive administrative activities suitable for automation.
• The role does not own enterprise cloud architecture, application deployment pipelines, or application-release automation.

Requirements

• Ability to administer Windows Server and enterprise Linux environments.
• Ability to manage virtualization platforms, clusters, virtual machines, and high-availability capabilities.
• Ability to administer Kubernetes infrastructure, including lifecycle management, access controls, certificates, and cluster restoration.
• Ability to manage enterprise backup, restoration testing, retention, recovery copies, and recoverability gaps.
• Ability to maintain disaster-recovery procedures, runbooks, recovery sequences, and recovery environments.
• Ability to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, patching, monitoring, and recovery using scripting and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Ability to apply testing, peer review, security validation, and change control to automated infrastructure changes.
• Ability to coordinate infrastructure work with Network, Database, Applications, DevOps, and Cybersecurity teams.