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Infrastructure Engineer

  • Location: Fort Worth, 76155
  • Salary: $76.67 - $86.67 / hour
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted about 2 months ago

Leverage the latest technology to solve business problems in a collaborative environment at this Fortune 500 transportation giant. Top technical resources are retained on long term contract engagements.

Position: Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Fort Worth, TX- Hybrid 
Term: 10+ months 

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

  • Run our infrastructure with Terraform, Azure PaaS and/or Kubernetes.
  • Make monitoring and alerting notify on symptoms and not on outages.
  • Document so your findings turn into repeatable actions-and then into automation.
  • Improve the deployment process to make it as boring as possible.
  • Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
  • Proposes ideas and solutions within the product team to reduce the workload by automation.
  • Plan, design and execute solutions within product team to reach specific goals agreed within the team.
  • Plan and execute configuration change operations both at the application and the infrastructure level.
  • Actively look for opportunities to improve the availability and performance of the system by applying the learnings from monitoring and observation.
  • Complete Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations.
  • Responsible for gaining a deep understanding of the portfolio and understand the integrations.
  • Improving DevOps practices and accelerating delivery and take a lead role in troubleshooting technical issues and recommending changes to improve resiliency.
  • Develop strategic technology roadmaps.
  • Respond to TechOps incidents and provide support for customer incidents.


Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience:
  • Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field, and 5 years of experience.

General knowledge of the following areas with deep knowledge in 2 areas:
  • Implement "Infrastructure as Code" using Terraform in Azure and on-prem infrastructure resources.
  • Implement Github , GHA CI/CD and ADO cloud for automation.
  • Load balancing the application including Proxies and CDN (automate).
  • Implementing monitoring, observability in AKS and K8S.
  • Monitoring and Metrics in Dynatrace and integrations with Moogsoft/xMatters.
  • Open source Logging infrastructure.
  • Able to script Automated performance testing scenarios for APIs and Web front ends and embed in CI/CD pipelines dashboarding/reporting query languages.
  • Backend storage management and scaling.

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience:
  • Masters degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field, and 3 years of experience
  • Airline Industry experience helpful


Proficiency and demonstrated experience in the following technologies:
  • Experienced in technology transformations and migration to one or more Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
  • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) tools and platforms, and containers and container orchestration platforms (aka Docker & Kubernetes).
  • Expertise in one or more cloud native relational databases such as MySql, PostgreSql and NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and MongoDB and databases and migration to/from enterprise class databases highly desired.
  • Strong technical knowledge and skills that are broad and deep, covering various hardware, software, and technology platforms.
  • DB Admin/SQL Server
  • Terraform
  • SysAdmin
  • Troubleshooting Network Issues
  • VM Management
  • Dynatrace
  • Ping Federate
  • Airwall
  • Security Vulnerabilities (remediation/compliance)
  • IIS
  • Automated Warehouse/Supply Chain experience helpful

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Candidates will be responsible for following the client's COVID-19 protocols. Please refer to your MATRIX representative for specifics.

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