Systems Engineer - Senior

Job Number

24055452

Job Category

Information Technology

Location

Marriott International HQ, 7750 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland, United States VIEW ON MAP

Schedule

Full-Time

Located Remotely?

N

Relocation?

N

Position Type

Management

 Job Summary

Duties

• Ensure the stability, integrity, and efficient operation of information systems and technologies that support core customer facing and enterprise facing products and platforms.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in a complex array of full stack solutions and tooling. 
• Perform research, analysis, design, creation, and implementation of systems to meet current and future requirements. 
• Utilize both software and systems engineering to build and operate large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems through immersion in the elements of development, integration, operation, and support for platform services. 
• Work with engineering, application and enterprise/solution architects to develop and implement services, monitor, report and tune infrastructure platforms. 
• Develop full stack automation, infrastructure as code across Marriott public cloud platforms which produce 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.
• Provide technical leadership, oversight, governance, and direction for services related to Marriott solution delivery
• Lead analysis of current environment for deficiencies and provides solutions
• Trains and mentors other team members, and peers as appropriate
• 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
• 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.
• Perform complex quantitative and qualitative analyses for operational availability to promote a zero-defect environment.
• Coordinates with Product and Architecture & Development teams for deployment and production support activities.
• Other duties as assigned within area of responsibility.

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering or a closely related field. 5 years of hands-on information technology experience (e.g. DevOps Engineer). In the alternative employer will accept a Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering or a closely related field and 3 years of hands on information technology experience. 

Other Required Skills/Experiences

      3 years Linux system administration experience

      3 years experience in Cloud technologies including Iaas/Paas/Saas deployments on Public Cloud

      3 years experience in OS scripting and automation

      3 years experience in Middleware, Database, Content Management, and BI Platforms

      Experience with of each of the following:

o   administration and implementing automation in public Cloud infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible following Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts.

o   cloud computing technology and its concepts (AWS, Azure and/or AliCloud) and/or virtualized (VMWare and/or OpenStack) 

o   container operations (Docker, OpenShift Enterprise, GKE and/or ECS) and orchestration (Docker Swarm and/or Kubernetes) 

o   monitoring and automation tools: Splunk, BMC Patrol and/or Netcool

o   supporting the configuration, customization, enhancements and end to end deployment of HashiCorp Vault

o   operating in an agile scrum environment and with a delivery focus and experience to deliver incrementally at a fast pace in 2-week sprints

Employer will consider any suitable alternative combination of education, training and/or experience. 

Hybrid position; part time telecommuting authorized.                                                                                    

LOCATION: 7750 Wisconsin Ave, Bethesda, MD 20814

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.

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