SAS EES ENVIRONMENT BUILD ENGINEER Job in Pleasanton, California US

SAS EES ENVIRONMENT BUILD ENGINEER

SAS EES ENVIRONMENT BUILD ENGINEER SUMMARY The Enterprise Environment Services (EES) group provides expertise in technical planning, building and supporting of application environments (including in-house and vendor developed applications), evaluating configurations and application architecture while assessing impact on KP platform environments; Supporting many mainframe and client-server systems, and Web-enabled technologies utilizing MVS, UNIX, and LINUX-based operating systems. This position for an Environment Build Engineer has as specific focus on the Service-Oriented Infrastructure (SOI) technologies that are supporting the KP Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). RESPONSIBILITIES: - Direct the work of the technical team supporting pre-production production environment builds maintenance. Ensure that the team prepares and maintains environment related build documentation. - Coordinate the work of other team members to provide daily maintenance and technical support activities associated to the operations of pre-production environments (development, QA test, workflow integration, UAT, training and staging/production support). Work with internal IT organizations and/or vendor to find resolution to system failures, and provide a root cause analysis. - Provide occasional 24x7 production support/coordination as assigned in an on-call rotation. - Map technical requirements to the application environment and infrastructure requirements, coordination of equipment sizing, acquisition and application environment build-out with infrastructure engineers, system administrators, and internal IT groups. - In addition to internal IT groups coordination with vendor supported applications is required to assess conformity with Kaiser Standards and determine fit into the target application architecture and perform environment operational testing. Monitor application performance and recommend performance improvements. - Install and configure application software onto Windows and/or Unix servers, monitoring file system utilization, DNS changes, scheduled job setup and manage application security for pre-production environments. - Strong knowledge of code migration services and the ability to implement code packaging and deployment procedures is required. - Provide automated alternatives to repetitive manual processes by creating scripts for installs, job monitoring, code drops, and backup or replication jobs. - Contribute to project planning and scheduling, preparation of work effort estimates, and coordinate the execution of project build activities across multiple teams and individuals. Align project plans with the EES Environment Strategy. - Some off-hours and weekend work may be required. DELIVERABLES IN FIRST 90 DAYS: - Become familiar with the overall SOI environment topology, interfaces, build plans, releases, and maintenance activities. - Understand EES role in the SOI environment build and support and how EES interact with the various KPIT organizations to complete technical deliverables. - Understand the Remedy service request process - SRs, RFCs, and Incidents. - Assume primary role as a technical build and support lead for small- to medium-scope SOI build initiatives. - Participate in daily or weekly scheduled meetings with management, project sponsors, and other technical teams to respond to project schedule updates, open issues, prioritization of activities, and resource planning. - Satisfy all mandatory internal training requirements. DELIVERABLES IN FIRST 120 DAYS: - Independently troubleshoot complex problems or defects reported in SOI environments. - Provide input to project plans for environment builds, and report status to project managers. - Participate in the build, validation, and troubleshooting as needed for application interfaces deployed on the ESB. - Perform complex software deployments into existing environments. - Work with application teams, technical or non-technical SMEs to gather and verify technical requirements for environment builds. DELIVERABLES IN FIRST YEAR: - Complete delivery of scheduled production and pre-production SOI environment builds. - Independently prepare and execute project plans for environment builds. - Contribute to strategic planning for the KP ESB environments and infrastructure. - Design processes, process improvements, and departmental standards for environment builds and support. Qualifications: BASIC QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS: - 8 years progressively complex experience working with infrastructure planning, design, and provisioning, application installation, configuration and support experience for Unix, Linux or Windows servers, and Windows desktops. - 4-year college degree or equivalent work experience - Experience with Windows administration, and Unix or Linux administration, including command scripting. - Working knowledge of software applications including but not limited to MS Project, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio. - Flexible and quick to learn new technologies without the benefit of formal classroom training. - Excellent analytical skills and ability to effectively communicate with clients. Ability to work through alternative solutions and ideas with multiple departments and then present findings/ideas. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS: Experience with UNIX application installation, configuration and support, or experience with UNIX shell scripting (or VB scripting or equivalent on Windows environment). Experience working with SOA-related technologies, web services development and implementation, or J2EE application servers such as WebSphere or JBoss. Good understanding of DB2, Oracle, or MS SQL RDBMS technologies. Experience with Remedy Problem Tracking software.