Infrastructure Engineer

PSI is an award-winning full-service CRO, bringing together more than 2,600 dynamic and knowledgeable individuals working together to help impact the future of medicine in more than 60 countries around the world.

Our mission is to be the best CRO in the world as measured by our employees, clients, sites, and vendors.

The Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for leading the creation, maintenance and operations of Data Platform services and applications in on-premises and cloud environment. Engineer will perform a range of activities required to design, implement, maintain, upgrade, and continuously automate, monitor, and improve a large complex computing environment. This includes identifying and responding to incidents and problems and planning for growth.

Remote or Office-Based in Planegg/Munich

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, manage, monitor, and support infrastructure environments and facilities
• Work with project teams to understand business requirements and making necessary adaptations
• Participate in short- and long-term planning efforts with management
• Identify potential and emerging technologies relevant to innovation to improve product offerings
• Continuously monitor and evaluate security, providing ongoing recommendations and reporting and issues when appropriate
• Perform a regular system maintenance (change management) with minimal impact to the operation
• Act technical liaison between internal departments
• Act as Subject Matter Expert to build hybrid environments
• Participate in design, implementation and execution of backup and disaster recovery
• Perform configuration management leveraging Azure Key Vault
• Administer Active Directory, Single Sign On (SSO), and Federated Security configurations
• Provide administration and ongoing operations of DBMS Systems required (SQL Server and Azure Synapse)
• Utilize Agile and DevOps Processes and Principles
• Monitor production, outputs, and services to ensure SLA’s and other metrics are met
• Create and update a project documentation to effectively explain architecture design concepts and solutions to various levels of stakeholders.
• Troubleshoot and provide full-cycle incident response (mitigation, correction, prevention)

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent experience
• Demonstrate knowledge of on-premises infrastructure, virtualization technologies, Windows/Linux operating systems, Microsoft AD, DNS, DHCP and Group Policies
• Experience with Microsoft Cloud products and solutions such as Azure AD, Azure SQL, Azure VM, Microsoft 365, Power BI, DevOps
• Core technology expertise in Azure migration
• Knowledge of data flow and data integration (Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Bricks, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse Analytics)
• Experience with Azure CLI, PowerShell, and other scripting languages and tools to manage/support hybrid environments
• Experience with Relational Database administration using SQL and configuration knowledge for the SQL engine
• Understanding of cloud security and identity (Conditional access, authentication, federation, SSO/MFA)
• Network management and security for hybrid environments (TCP/IP, VLAN, DMZ, firewall, VPN, security gateway)
• Experience with data backup/restore, disaster recovery, and redundancy (RTO, RLO, RPO)

Specific Skills/Attributes:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work within a global team environment
• Ability to work in English
• Can zoom from big picture to detail
• Creative thinking, problem solving, and decision-making skills
• Takes initiative and is a self-starter
• Can work and collaborate effectively with remote teams
• Able to ramp-up quickly
• Ability to interface between creative, technical, and senior level professionals
• Flexibility and adaptability to rapidly changing environment

If you’re looking to advance your career at a company growing organically into new regions around the world, we would love to hear from you!

You will receive continuous support from your global peers and join a fast-paced, innovative, and results-oriented working environment with lean communication lines. We pride ourselves on being approachable, receptive to new ideas, and open to feedback.