Job Description:
Paychex is looking for an Infrastructure Solutions Lead (ISL) who will have broad responsibility for the delivery of projects that build and enhance Paychex software-as-a-service platform and play a foundational role in determining how those solutions will be built, brought to market, and managed for maximum performance, resiliency, and availability. This position will provide expertise for delivering web applications (all tiers) and backend infrastructure at large scale and can context switch and work at the strategic, architectural, and operational levels. ISL plays an important role in ensuring that the solution architecture aligns with the roadmaps established by the enterprise architecture, and that it adheres to the enterprise architecture principles as well as operational best practices. This position will serve as both a consumer and contributor to enterprise architecture collateral. Typically, a partner and technical lead of an Infrastructure Delivery team, the solutions lead is responsible for translating the requirements, scope and development design into the platform architecture and leading their delivery team in the build, documentation and implementation of that solution following the company’s continuous delivery principles.
This position serves as the single point of contact for the software agile teams and program management teams they support in identifying the development team’s infrastructure requirements, challenges with environment availability and providing guidance on how to develop software to take advantage of infrastructure components to drive availability, resiliency, performance, and scalability.
What You’ll Do:
• Engage with Development, Architecture and Performance Engineering to design solutions that deliver on Operability, Release and Configuration Management, Infrastructure and Application capacity management and provisioning.
• Leverage guidance from Performance Engineering and Architecture design, measures, optimizes, and tunes system performance and ensures that systems will run reliably, highly performant and highly available by focusing on reliability, resiliency, scalability in a 24/7 production environment, as well as in a development stack
• Acts as the single point of contact for development agile teams to identify infrastructure requirements, handles environment break-fix coordination with delivery team, and drives continuous improvement of infrastructure availability, resiliency, and scalability to ensure development success and productivity.
• Learns new third-party software, hardware, and other solutions quickly and integrate them within our platform and other deliverables.
• Engages with technology teams across Paychex to share best practices and leverage Paychex tools, code and infrastructure for re-use as effectively as possible in support of the engineering portfolio.
• Proactively identifies, manages, and mitigates risks within an IT project by working closely with your partners within Development, IT Infrastructure and the business.
• Creates, maintains, and documents tools and automation for handling system state and operations across a complex global infrastructure.
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• 5 to 8 years of Systems or software development experience in designing, building, and deploying highly scalable enterprise systems.
• 3+ years of experience in a lead role in driving cross-functional engineering teams from analysis through solution and developing junior level staff.
• Experience with Unix and Windows operating systems, including the ability to performance tune the OS and applications suites.
• Demonstrated experience in quickly assessing architectures to understand implementation design and usage patterns for improvement opportunity.
• Knowledge of various disciplines including: System Administration, Network Operations, Software Development, Build and Release Engineering, Performance Engineering, and Site Operations.
• Familiarity with Scrum and Agile Methodologies is a plus!
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer related discipline and/or an IT certification in an applicable field or equivalent work experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
• Industry and technology certifications are a strong plus.
• Memberships and participations in industry and open-source consortiums is a strong plus.
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