Engineer, Chennai

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will be responsible for maintain highly critical production and non-production environments catered across multiple data centers. You will be expected to function as part of highest level of technical support team and escalation for high severity Issues and requests related to Windows. You will take the role of Junior Windows Engineer in automated and general ESX environments primary running on UCS hardware. 

The Infrastructure Engineer should have sufficient troubleshooting knowledge & experience in working with windows systems connected to SAN/NAS storage systems, and production databases. Knowledge on ITIL process and other infrastructure components will be value added.  

Responsibilities  

• Be part of 24/7 support team and work as Windows system engineer.  
• Independently Handle issues related to Windows OS, ESX clusters & UCS H/W and fix them.  
• Experience in managing, monitoring & configuring Windows servers with different OS versions.  
• Knowledge in Windows patch management 
• Review the production environment regularly, identify potential failures and propose the solutions to address them. 
• Work closely with infrastructure, application support and other groups to arrive at 
• Permanent solutions to problem tickets and implement the identified solutions on Windows servers / ESX clusters.  
• Work closely with the scrum, development, and infrastructure- operations teams to support the automation of the infrastructure 

• 3 years equivalent hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering and administration  
• Must have Advanced knowledge in navigating and troubleshooting Windows operating systems and ESX clusters on UCS platforms including VMware. 
• Hands-on experience in enterprise infrastructure automation platforms such as PowerShell, Python, BASH, etc. Certificate for any of the platform is a plus. 
• Complete knowledge on change, incident & problem management processes. 
• Knowledge in enterprise infrastructure configuration tools like Ansible / Puppet 
• Complete understand on how infra components like servers, database, network, storage, firewalls, AD, DNS, monitoring etc. connect and co-relate each other. 
• Understand cloud technologies and infrastructure virtualization. 
• Be flexible to attend workshops or trainings 
• Have good verbal and written communication skills (English) in both technical and non-technical communications 

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

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