Job description
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for designing solutions, aligned with customer requirements for projects initiated by supported lines of business in coordination with other technical departments
- Works with a wide range of engineering resources as needed, ensuring that end-to-end infrastructure design is completed
- Coordinates and develops project concepts, objectives, specifications and resource needs.
- Assists project team with requirements completion and submittal of responses to RFP’s
- Prepares design specifications, analyses and recommendations based on customer requirements.
- Participates in the design, development, planning, modification and/or improvement of software operational systems.
- Researches system designs and enhancement solutions.
- Performs system hardware, software analysis.
- Assists in conceptualizing, develop and analysing engineering designs based on customer/contract requirements.
- Partners with project team to complete technical design documents
- Partners with PM to document implementation tasks for the project
- Responsible for ensuring that the designed solution addresses all business and systems (functional/non-functional) requirements
- Researches design concepts and feasibility utilizing advanced technical theory and knowledge.
- Coordinates and contributes to compilation and writing of proposal documents.
- Prepares design proposals to reflect cost, schedule and technical approaches.
- Recommends test control, strategies, apparatus and equipment.
- Maintains liaison with customer, subcontractor and vendor representatives.
- Evaluates vendor capabilities to provide required products or services.
- Conducts in-house design reviews and technical meetings.
- Makes presentations before management and customers.
- Assumes additional technical and non-technical responsibilities as needed.
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, project and Visio products.
Minimum Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electronic Engineering or other related technical discipline.
- Ability to demonstrate in depth experience in system development/engineering including;.
- Providing technical direction and leadership to team members
- Developing IT infrastructure Solutions as a lead engineer or Architect.
- IT Infrastructure implementation or lifecycle development.
- Planning, documenting, validating and testing technical solutions in a global enterprise setting.
- Any combination of Linux/Unix, Windows, VMWare vSphere within a mid to large scale enterprise,
- Engineering and implementing business processes focused on services delivery.
- Significant exposure to Cloud platforms (e.g. Azure, AWS, Google Cloud), with a specific focus on automated deployment environments would be an advantage.
- Competent use of Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, Project, Visio, PowerPoint, Access and computer aided software engineering (CASE) tools.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Able to positively interact with customers, subcontractors and vendors.
- Must be able to solve complex and difficult engineering problems. Knowledge of customer needs and competing products desirable.
- IT Service Delivery experience implementing and utilizing ITIL processes.
- Some travel may be required.
- Able to work flexible hours as required.
- Ability to manage simultaneous projects in multiple locations and internationally.
- Well organized, able to plan projects and maintenance initiatives, track and report to milestones.
- Flexibility to adjust to changing requirements, schedules and priorities.
- Self-driven and resourceful to achieve goals independently as well as work well in groups.
- Able to collaborate with application support resources and to provide advice and support related to database, IT infrastructure, and server environments.
- Comply with Cubic’s values and adherence to all company policy and procedures. In particular comply with the code of conduct, quality, security and occupational health, safety and environmental policies and procedures.
Desirable:
- Previous experience in network engineering and administration to include L2, L3, and L7 switches, preferably Cisco.
- Previous experience managing vendor relationships and working with professional engagements.
- Previous experience in managing IT infrastructure delivery.
- Previous experience working in or in collaboration with complex software delivery organizations.
