Job Overview:

The Sr. Infrastructure Engineer is a key IT infrastructure team member responsible for the cloud, data center and distribution center environments. This role is responsible for design and engineering with the delivery of effective, scalable, and secure IT infrastructure solutions. Additionally, this role acts as a mentor and coach in the infrastructure function and works to remove constraints to deliver solutions. The Infrastructure Engineer Sr proactively addresses problems and gaps with existing processes and documentation. In addition, resolves escalations quickly and addresses root causes and leads solutions and services delivery.

What does it mean to be part of the Information Technology Team?

A role in Information Technology at UNFI involves being a part of the transformation of food for all through many innovative technology products such as myUNFI, our customer ordering platform or our warehouse management systems that optimize service. You will have an opportunity to be a part of the technology journey to transform food for all through collaboration and building solutions across teams that directly contribute to our OneUNFI strategy. Roles include network automation, infrastructure unification and modernization, data services and analytics, and digital offering. 

Job Responsibilities:

•        Gather and document IT infrastructure and security requirements by partnering with Cybersecurity and other technical teams
•        Provide advanced technical leadership and knowledge transfer for domain specific concepts to peers and external teams
•        Assist in the development of technical standards and overall architecture
•        Partner with IT teams in the development of automation tools and concepts
•        Collaborates on projects, systems and issues of varying complexity surrounding IT infrastructure planning, configuration, and optimization
•        Lead the evaluation, selection, implementation, and optimization of enterprise infrastructure solutions, ensuring alignment with the existing tech stack and scalability as the organization evolves
•        Participating in project definition, approach and timely delivery of engineering responsibilities
•        Apply knowledge technical expertise in decision making and in the resolution of problems which are highly complex and technical in nature
•        Provide preventative maintenance measures and self-healing methods to ensure incidents don't re-occur in the environment
•        Mentor and coach engineers, administrators, and developers to ensure infrastructure standards and requirements best practices are followed
•        Informally leads solutions action plans
•        Performs other duties as assigned

Job Requirements:

Education/Certification:

•        Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline or a combination of relevant IT experience and education

Experience:

•        6-10 years professional experience working in large scale environments (5,000 employees or large-scale service provider minimum).
•        6-10 years with Unix operating systems (Redhat, AIX, Solaris), scripting, virtualization technologies, security, infrastructure tools
•        3+ years working with managed service providers
•        Experience in recommending, designing, implementing, and maintaining REDHAT Satellite
•        Experience with multiple Redhat (RHEL) versions: RHEL 3.x - 9.x
•        Experience with B2B type Business applications systems such as Sterling Integrator
•        Experience with Software audit gathering tools such as IBM ILMT
•        Experience with virtual network environments and modern hybrid datacenter technologies such as VMware, Solaris, AIX and AWS solutions.
•        Experience working in complex network environments with legacy systems
•        At least 3 years of experience with configuration management software with Terraform preferred but Puppet, Chef, Ansible are a plus

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

•        Ability to work independently and break down assigned work into workable tasks and delegate those tasks
•        Ability to plan and see the bigger picture and think strategically
•        Communication skills written and verbal
•        Ability to collaborate across teams
•        Ability to informally lead a team to deliver solutions
•        Good judgment is required for this position as there may be times when direct supervision may not be immediately available 

Benefits:

•        Competitive 401k, Flexible PTO, Remote, Health benefits – first of the month following 30 days of employment, mentorship program/developmental opportunities.

Work Environment:

Remote Role:

•        This position is classified as remote where the associate will perform remote work from their primary residence. Remote associates are welcome to work from the office but are not required to do so. While remote associates are not required to work from an office on a regular basis, they may be required to come to the office or other UNFI locations for necessary business reasons or if directed to do so by their manager.

Travel (minor):

•        This position may require the associate to travel to company offices, distribution centers, or other locations for specific meetings or other business reasons.

About UNFI: We are North America’s premier grocery wholesaler, delivering the widest variety of fresh, branded, and owned brand products to community grocers and retail chains alike. A pioneer in natural and organic foods, we are growing and transforming to meet the needs of an evolving workplace. Our 29,000+ employees work across America in our 50 Distribution Centers and corporate offices. Learn more: Organic, Natural and Conventional Food | Wholesale Food Distributors | UNFI 

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