Platform Engineer

PLATFORM ENGINEER 6 MONTHS C2H FORT WORTH, TX VISA- NO CPT/H1B ONSITE 5 DAYS FOR 1 ST MONTH THEN HYBRID 3 DAYS/WEEK Top Skills 10 years of experience (if they have 7 years please call me before subbing) Needs a SQL DBA with Windows experience (VMware & Operating Systems) - Must have VMware, HyperV, or Azure VM experience They have 120 SQL instances and 70 SQL Servers that this person will be working on Experience with TSQL, ETL Services, file system expansion, adding drives and space Experience adding users in Active Directory in the SQL Database Needs to be able to provision IDs. Must have server side experience Needs someone who's gone through the experience of a project going south and putting in the hours to correct in a short period of time. On-call Support 1 week every 5 weeks Nice to Have: Azure cloud experience Microsoft Azure SQL as a Service (SQLaas) - They are migrating to azure so this experience would be very helpful. If they do not have it, manager will train on this. Please ensure candidates are willing to learn this Automation Mindset DevOps Experience FORMAL HR JOB DESCRIPTION Position Summary and Responsibilities: This position is for a Platform Engineer responsible for the life cycle management of infrastructure platforms including cloud and on-prem technologies with both virtual and physical servers, Microsoft SQL databases, ETL services, some middleware services, backup services, and monitoring services. The life cycle management includes deployment, support/maintenance, and decommission of technologies as they change. The Platform Engineer must work as a member of a team and be willing to learn and teach technologies as part of a high performing team. The successful candidate will be a self-starter with an expert foundation in Microsoft operating systems and Microsoft SQL Responsibilities: Deployment and day to day support of server and database services both on-prem and in the cloud. Manage infrastructure services including Active Directory, DNS, monitoring, and backup/restores. Manage cloud infrastructure including accounts/subscriptions, IAM, networks, load balancers. Responsible for on-prem technologies physical and virtual servers, SAN and load balancers Automation of infrastructure as code using git, CI/CD pipelines, Powershell, Ansible, Terraform. Expected to create and maintain and documentation. Will support acquisitions including configurations, monitoring and preventative maintenance Daily responsibilities include supporting application and operation teams with real-time production/test environments