Infrastructure Engineer

• The Infrastructure Engineer is a technical specialist role responsible for maintaining, supporting, and improving the global infrastructure platform across on-premises and cloud environments.
• This role provides deep technical expertise across servers, storage, networking (LAN, WAN and Wifi), virtualisation, backup + DR, and monitoring systems.
• The role ensures the stability, resilience, performance, and security across infrastructure services that underpin business operations.
• Engineers deliver hands-on technical work, support incidents, participate in project delivery, implement change, and contribute to global standardisation and modernisation initiatives.

• Acts as single point of contact to Real Estate Design & Delivery organization for small to medium size construction projects.
• Develops ROM costs for design and delivery of a complete turn-key network infrastructure for a defined project.
• Determines equipment, materials and labor costs for each project and manages project expenses to estimates.
• Develops office building physical layer design documents and BOMs.
• Performs site audits and assessments needed to develop design documents and plans.
• Produces Telecom Room layouts, rack elevation plans, optical riser backbone drawings, labeling schemes, detailed materials BOMs, Division 27 documents, cutover plans, runlists and any other documents required to define project design.
• Designs horizontal cabling systems & supporting components, optical riser backbone systems, OSP optical campus backbones & pathways, cable pathways, cable tray conveyance systems, conduits, pull-boxes, outlets, workstation feeds-devices, floor termination devices, etc.
• Programs and designs Telecom Rooms including overall room layouts, power, HVAC, grounding, racks, runways, HCM, VCM, etc.
• Manages new copper and fiber cable pulls.
• Updates CAD drawings, Patch Manager, and Layer 1 documentation.
• Partners with other network engineers on equipment selection and related costs.
• Develops switch port requirements based on floor / occupancy plans, specifies UPS needed to support network equipment, reviews WIFI AP plans and proposes adjustments to coordinate with ceiling design, programs pathways to support final AP plans, specifies AP mounting brackets-kits for various ceiling types & mounting scenarios.
• Drives access layer planning by determining switch counts, uplink capacity, and port density requirements based on physical design needs.
• Executes wireless deployment reviews, including AP placement validation and interference mitigation relative to ceiling and pathway design.
• Commissions newly deployed access layer infrastructure, including switch staging, port assignments, VLAN configuration, and end-to-end connectivity verification prior to production cutover.
• Assesses existing physical plant and network infrastructure for capacity, performance, and end-of-life risk; develops and presents findings and remediation recommendations to engineering leadership.
• Coordinates with the Architect as a member of the design team to ensure Construction Documents (CDs) accurately reflect the required physical layer design.
• Reviews floor plans and provides mark-ups to Architect to incorporate into CDs for General and MEP contractor scope.
• Collaborates with Strategic Sourcing to obtain competitive bids for implementation of the physical layer design.
• Identifies bidders, defines bid milestones, attends bid conferences, presents design to bidders, responds to RFIs, evaluates bid responses, conducts post bid interviews, contractor selection.
• Provides Construction Administration for each project.
• Conducts frequent site walks and onsite reviews.
• Participates in weekly OAC meetings.
• Reviews applicable submittals, responds to RFIs, coordinates closely with General, Electrical and Cabling Contractors to ensure project implementation is consistent with design.
• Attends site meetings to evaluate and recommend solution when field conditions dictate deviation from proposed design.
• Coordinates Service Provider / Carrier builds into new and existing facilities.
• Provides schedule milestones with estimated completion times to General Contractors to incorporate into overall construction project schedule.
• Tracks timelines and financial forecasts against stated objectives, ensures proper transition to operations and completion of close-out as-built floor plans-documentation & test reports.
• Evaluates and executes Business Unit requests for cabling MAC work and small infrastructure projects.
• Engineers and maintains the network infrastructure environment at 7 Hudson and Bristol Connecticut Technology Rooms.
• Coordinates equipment installations and connectivity, specifies rack mount locations, extends Carrier circuits, and manages cabling, power, and Service Provider/Carrier builds to ensure integrity of the physical plant.
• Executes NFAD infrastructure projects including Telecom Room remodels, Campus fiber-optic capacity adds, and horizontal cable and optical backbone upgrades.
• Researches technologies and products and meets with vendor, addresses technical issues/deficiencies and influence new products and services to meet growing and changing requirements.
• Contributes to NFAD group including researching and recommending new technologies, developing formats for designs and scope-of-work documents, updated/creating strategy & standards documents.
• Demonstrates technical acumen, business acumen, strong communication skills and professional maturity in representing the department in business discussions.
• Validates network infrastructure integrity in facility environments, including switch connectivity, VLAN assignments, and port configurations, engaging other network engineers on complex fault resolution as needed.

Senior Network Infrastructure Engineer

• Ensure AI solutions are consistent, secure, and reliable
• Architect reusable Terraform modules
• Design and maintain GitOps structures
• Engineer advanced ADO pipeline patterns
• Solve complex AKS issues
• Implement and maintain Workload identity patterns
• Improve team practices through tooling and automation
• Perform technical reviews to ensure quality
• Mentor junior engineers

AI Infrastructure Engineer

• Implement and support infrastructure technologies such as Microsoft Azure, VMware and networking technologies
• Execute migrations of on-premises platforms to cloud infrastructure
• Manage enterprise support requests from clients subscribing to Kraft Kennedy’s enterprise managed services
• Execute planned evening and weekend maintenance tasks in support of Kraft Kennedy’s enterprise managed services clients, when necessary
• Participate in weekly on-call rotation for evening and weekend support assistance, as requested by enterprise managed services clients
• Escalate to internal and, when necessary, external resources in an appropriate time frame to manage the resolution of complex client issues
• Provide on-site support, as necessary

Cloud Support Infrastructure Engineer

• Support and maintain mainframe z/OS storage environments
• Perform storage configuration changes through ServiceNow change management processes
• Manage storage allocation, monitoring, utilization, and backup/recovery activities
• Support and enhance disaster recovery strategies and processes
• Administer and support DFSMS, DFHSM, DFDSS, DFSMSrmm, FDR, and GDPS environments
• Support IBM DS8000 and TS7700 storage systems
• Utilize and support JCL and ISPF utilities
• Support DB2 SLB (HSM Fast Replication backup) processes
• Leverage storage tools including IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Manager, IBM Advanced Catalog Management, and DFSMS Advanced Allocation Manager
• Monitor storage environments using tools such as CA Vantage or IBM Omegamon XE
• Participate in on-call rotations and off-hours change windows

Infrastructure Engineering Advisor – Mainframe z/OS Storage Administrator

• Architect and maintain scalable, reliable infrastructure: Design and optimize infrastructure for high availability, fault tolerance, and performance across distributed systems.
• Lead incident management and root cause analysis: Own incident response processes, ensure swift resolution of issues, and drive post-incident improvements to prevent recurrences.
• Service monitoring and automation: Build and maintain automated monitoring, alerting, and healing systems that improve system health, reduce manual intervention, and minimize downtime.
• Performance tuning and capacity planning: Identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities, and implement scaling strategies to handle traffic spikes and growing workloads efficiently.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Work closely with software engineers, product teams, and DevOps to enhance system reliability and delivery pipelines.
• Improve operational processes: Champion continuous improvement initiatives in deployment, scaling, and performance testing, while advocating for the adoption of SRE best practices across the organization.
• Mentorship and leadership: Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers, contribute to strategic decisions around infrastructure, and ensure best practices are implemented at scale.
• Be proactive and innovative: we rely on your feedback to build a world-class product.
• Be a part of a team that believes in the core values of transparency, collaboration, grit, and humility; in going above and beyond what is required to do the right thing for our customers and the company; and in having fun while doing all this!

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