Sr. Systems Engineer - Public Cloud
Company: Marriott
Location: Indianapolis
Posted on: May 27, 2023
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Job Description:
Job Number 23089106
Job Category Information Technology
Location Marriott International HQ, 7750 Wisconsin Avenue,
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Schedule Full-Time
Located Remotely? Y
Relocation? N
Position Type Management
JOB SUMMARY
The Sr. Systems Engineer, (SSE) ensures the stability, integrity,
and efficient operation of information systems and technologies
that support core customer facing and enterprise facing products
and platforms. This role serves as a subject matter expert in a
complex array of full stack solutions. This role will perform
research, analysis, design, creation, and implementation of systems
to meet current and future requirements. The role is a discipline
which combines both software and systems engineering to build and
operate large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. The role
will be immersed in the elements of development, integration,
operation, and support for platform services. S/he will work with
engineering, application and enterprise/solution architects to
develop and implement services, monitor, report and tune
infrastructure platforms. The role will develop full stack
automation, infrastructure as code across Marriott public cloud
platforms.
The Public Cloud product produces services including
Compute/Storage, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Container
Platforms, Middleware, Database, Business Intelligence, Tools and
Automation through "Infrastructure As Code" across Marriott's
entire Public Cloud footprint.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Education and Experience
Required:
Undergraduate degree in an engineering or computer science
discipline and/or equivalent experience/certification
7+ years experience in information technology with the
following:
Linux experience
Cloud technologies including Iaas/Paas/Saas deployments on Public
Cloud and Cloud native services
OS scripting and automation
5+ years professional experience in Infrastructure as a Service
(IaaS) modeling including infrastructure as code development
(Terraform or similar) or infrastructure engineering at enterprise
scale
5+ years professional experience in automated configuration
management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
5+ years professional experience with cloud computing technology
and its concepts (AWS, Azure, AliCloud, GCP) and/or virtualized
(VMWare, OpenStack)
5+ years professional experience in container operations (Docker,
OpenShift Enterprise, GKE, EKS)
Orchestration (Docker, Racher, Kubernetes)
Experience operating in an agile scrum environment.
Delivery focused with experience to deliver incrementally at a fast
pace in 2-week sprints
Additional Preferred Experiences:
Experience with Security Protocols (SSL, SAML, SAMP, LDAP etc.) and
controls (container scanning, log aggregation, network scanning,
CVE)
Experience in one or more of the following: C, C++, Java, Python,
Go, Perl, or Ruby
Experience in designing, analyzing, and engineering large-scale
distributed systems
Experience in the design, implementation and operational support of
mission critical solutions
Demonstrated experience delivering technology solutions in a
fast-paced, deadline driven enterprise environment
Demonstrated experience learning and applying new technologies to
solve business needs
Excellent problem-solving skills working independently and through
leading outcomes for cross functional teams
Excellent understanding of change management, testing requirements,
techniques, and tools to ensure high availability of systems
Strong attention to detail with an ability to operate effectively
across multiple priorities
Experience across many of the following platforms:
Container platforms (Examples: OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes,
GKE)
Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux, Windows,
CentOS
Storage: Block Storage, Object Storage, Lifecycle Management and
Data Replication, Backup & Recovery Best Practices
Network Virtualization: Akamai Global Traffic Management and Edge &
Delivery Networks, Elastic Load Balancing Services, Domain Name
Services and Registration
Security: Compliance, Information Assurance, Data Protection using
industry-best practices and tooling (Crowdstrike Falcon,
Tenable.io, Splunk Phantom, HashiCorp Vault signers, SHA1 and SHA2
certificate management)
Applications Frameworks: Java Spring, Java Play, node.js, NginX,
JavaEE, HTML5
Database: Relational (Oracle, DB2, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL
Server), non-relational (Cassandra, Couchbase, MongoDB,
CockroachDB)
Requirement gathering, validation, fulfillment and change
management
Infrastructure operations experience including self-healing
autonomy
Provide functional, technical, and/or process leadership, or
Project Management experience
Strong knowledge of emerging tools, software, applications, and
systems for attaining best-in-class IT technology across the
enterprise
Experience in researching emerging technologies and trends,
standards, and products
Experience in developing technology roadmaps and strategies
Excellent verbal and written communication skills for a wide range
of audiences including executives, business stakeholders and IT
teams
Understanding of automated ITCM/ITRM best practices
Experience operating in Scaled Agile Framework
CORE WORK ACTIVITIES
Provides technical leadership, oversight, governance and direction
for services related to Marriott solution delivery
Provides technical expertise to project team for successful project
and change implementations
Determines customer requirements and works with sourced resources
to develop solutions
Leads analysis of current environment for deficiencies and provides
solutions
Provides input into lifecycle, improvement, and standardization
strategies
Develops and generates periodic utilization reports to provide
visibility to performance, capacity, availability and SLA
management
Utilize capacity data to model future state planning with overall
strategy and goals
Provides and presents status, analysis and reporting to internal
stakeholders, Executive Management and Senior Leadership
Trains and/or mentors other team members, and peers as
appropriate
Identifies opportunities to enhance the service delivery,
operations and continual service improvement processes
Develop implementation plans, test plans, and timelines for
projects and tasks
Responsible for project inception including requirements gathering
and architecting, costs and chargeback modeling, infrastructure-as-
code development and configuration management
Work with Enterprise Architecture to provide technology and cloud
native service governance for technology steering committees, with
cost and support directives
Promote Marriott International Cloud Platform capabilities
including Cloud Native Services for cost effective solutions
against architecture
Promote Containers-as-a-Service Kubernetes methodologies for
orchestrated scheduling of portable containers across global cloud
platforms
Monitor and drive industry best practice Continuous Delivery
principals for improvement of application and feature deployment
velocity with minimal downtime
Work with MI Security for governance and application of Tier0/1
Security tooling across the entire fleet of cloud virtual machines
including automated OS, access, log, DDOS and code monitoring and
auditing
Own relationships with tooling and Cloud vendors including Red Hat,
Docker, Chef, Amazon, Google
Coordination between onshore/offshore engineering and operations
teams; handover and acceptance of L1/2 shared services Ops
Delivering Technology
Create and enhance administrative, operational and technical
policies and procedures, adopting best practice guidelines,
standards and procedures for employees, contractors and vendor
engagements
Maintains a proper balance between business and operational
risk
Management of daily infrastructure operations to ensure
availability SLA is met for storage services
Interfaces with stakeholders to establish requirements and
formulate priorities for infrastructure projects
Leads/assists in configuration management
Works in a concerted effort with application development and
engineering teams to resolve complex issues
Provides oversight, collaboration, provisioning, management and
maintenance of technology products and service alternatives that
improve the production services environment
Responsible for the establishment and continuous development of
monitoring and alerting for all production environments
Develops internal processes and training to ensure team members
have the needed skills and tools to support the production
environments and deliver on project commitments
Performs complex quantitative and qualitative analyses for
operational availability to promote a zero-defect environment
Facilitates achievement of expected deliverables and obligations of
Services Providers
Leads/assists operational teams in system updates & upgrades
Provides consultation for routine and complex systems
development
Ensures early warning to the business stakeholder executives
regarding degraded or missed service levels
Coordinates with Plan and Build teams for deployment and production
support activities
IT Governance
Follows all defined IT standards and processes (i.e. IT Governance,
SM&G, Architecture, etc.), and provides input for improvements
to the appropriate process owners as needed
Execute infrastructure compliance monitors and auditing to ensure
user and password security
Maintains a proper balance between business and operational
risk
Follows the defined project management standards and processes
Service Provider Management
Ensures proper coordination with appropriate IT and vendor
relations teams
Manages Service Providers with a focus on continuous service
improvement and service evolution
Monitors, manages and leads Service Provider outcomes required to
ensure operational availability and a zero-defect production
environment
Consults with internal Service Management & external Service
Providers on performance, business reporting, analytics metrics and
business value dashboards
Marriott International is an equal opportunity employer. We believe
in hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive,
people-first culture. We are committed to non-discrimination on any
protected basis, such as disability and veteran status, or any
other basis covered under applicable law. Marriott International
considers for employment qualified applicants with criminal
histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local
law.
Marriott International is the world's largest hotel company, with
more brands, more hotels and more opportunities for associates to
grow and succeed. We believe a great career is a journey of
discovery and exploration. So, we ask, where will your journey take
you?
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