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Lead Infrastructure Engineer

  • Location: West Des Moines, 50266
  • Salary: $69.50 - $78.31 / hour
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted 20 days ago

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package!

Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Position: Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Location: 
West Des Moines, IA, Minneapolis, MN, Dallas, TX, or Phoenix, AZ
Term: 12 months

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

  • Lead complex initiatives to develop infrastructure to provide solutions for business applications.
  • Participate in various projects intended to continually improve or upgrade the infrastructure.
  • Evaluate internal and external software solutions which could be leveraged to meet target state architecture goals.
  • Review and analyze high impact outages to ensure the proper processes and procedures are in place to avoid problems in the future.
  • Design, build, deploy and maintain infrastructure solutions through collaborative efforts with the team and third party vendors.
  • Design, code, test, debug and document programs using Agile development practices.
  • Make decisions in technical designs, implementation plans and identify project risks and resource requirements.
  • Direct the daily risk and control flow of operations, focusing on policies, procedures and work standards to ensure success.
  • Recommend courses of action to maintain cost effectiveness and achieve results.
  • Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.
  • Interact with customer and vendor.


Is this a good fit? (Requirements):

  • Skills:
    • Minimum 4 years of Enterprise Jenkins Experience.
    • Minimum 4 year of RedHat Linux and Windows Server experience.
    • Minimum 4 years of Shell or Powershell scriting experience.
    • Minimum 3-4 years of build tools experience (Maven, Gradle, NPM and/or MSBUILD).
    • Very Good Problem solving or trouble shooting skills.
    • Self learner with minimum dependency on the team.
    • Knowledge of configuration management tools like Ansible and Puppet.
  • 5+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

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

About Us

At MATRIX, we expertly match talented professionals with job opportunities to elevate careers. Since 1983, we have placed thousands of professionals at innovative clients across every industry ranging from small startups to Fortune 50 companies. It’s why we’re a top 15 U.S. IT staffing firm and why our consultants rate us well above the industry average. People come to us for a job, and stay with us because of our top-notch consultant care.

For hourly W2 contract roles, MATRIX offers a highly competitive benefit package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, HSA, and 401(k) with pre and post-tax options. Please see https://www.matrixres.com/consultants-overview/benefits-and-payroll for more information. For direct hire placement with our clients, benefits will be offered in accordance with that particular client’s offerings. This may include PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K and other pre and post-tax options.

MATRIX is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/vets. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.