at Marriott in Springfield, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Number 24103809
Job Category Information Technology
Location Marriott International HQ, 7750 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Schedule Full-Time
Located Remotely? Y
Relocation? N
Position Type Management
JOB SUMMARY
The Sr. Systems Engineer – Tools and Cloud Cost optimization , (SSE) will be a technical expert responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining cost-efficient cloud systems and applications that support core customer facing and enterprise facing products and platforms.In this role the SSE will work closely with the cloud operations team to analyze the cloud infrastructure and identify opportunities for cost optimization. The role is a discipline which combines both software and systems engineering to build and operate large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. The role will help in Identifying cost optimization opportunities by reviewing usage patterns, billing data, and cloud service utilization and will be responsible for developing and implementing cost optimization strategies to reduce the cost of cloud services while maintaining service quality and performance. In this role the SSE will collaborate with other technical teams, such as software engineering, data engineering, EA and DevOps, to ensure that cloud-based applications are designed with cost efficiency in mind. The role will implement an operating model of innovative cost savings and optimization solutions for Marriott across public cloud providers.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Education and Experience
Required:
+ Undergraduate degree in an engineering or computer science discipline and/or equivalent experience/certification
+ 7+ years experience in information technology including:
+ 5+ years experience in Cloud technologies including Iaas/Paas/Saas deployments on Public Cloud
+ 5+ years experience in OS scripting and automation
+ 5+ years experience in Middleware, Database, Content Management, and BI Platforms
+ 2+ years professional experience in administration and implementing automation in public Cloud infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible following Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts.
+ 2+ years professional experience with cloud computing technology and its concepts (such as AWS, Azure, AliCloud) and/or virtualized (such as VMWare, OpenStack)
+ 2+ years professional experience in container operations (such as Docker, OpenShift Enterprise, GKE, ECS) and orchestration (such as Docker Swarm, Kubernetes)
+ 3+ years of professional experience in monitoring and automation tools such as Splunk, BMC Patrol, Netcoo
Additional Preferred Experiences:
+ Experience in one or more of the following: C, C++, Java, Python
+ Experience with cloud cost management tools and be comfortable with data analysis and reporting.
+ Experience in designing, analyzing, and engineering large-scale distributed systems
+ Experience in the design, implementation and FinOps and operational support of mission critical solutions
+ Demonstrated experience delivering technology solutions in a fast-paced, deadline driven enterprise environment
+ Demonstrated experience learning and applying new technologies to solve business needs
+ Excellent problem-solving skills working independently and through leading outcomes for cross functional teams
+ Strong attention to detail with an ability to operate effectively across multiple priorities
+ Experience across many of the following platforms:
+ Container platforms (Examples: OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes, GKE)
+ Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux, Windows, CentOS
+ Storage: Block Storage, Object Storage, Lifecycle Management and Data Replication, Backup & Recovery Best Practices
+ Network Virtualization: Akamai Global Traffic Management and Edge & Delivery Networks, Elastic Load Balancing Services, Domain Name Services and Registration
+ Security: Compliance, Information Assurance, Data Protection using industry-best practices and tooling (Crowdstrike Falcon, Tenable.io, Splunk Phantom, HashiCorp Vault signers, SHA1 and SHA2 certificate management)
+ Applications Frameworks: Java Spring, Java Play, node.js, NginX, JavaEE, HTML5
+ Database: Relational (Oracle, DB2, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL Server), non-relational (Cassandra, Couchbase, MongoDB, CockroachDB)
+ Strong knowledge of emerging tools, software, applications, and systems for attaining best-in-class IT technology across the enterprise
+ Experience in researching emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products
+ Excellent verbal and written communication skills for a wide range of audiences including executives, business stakeholders and IT teams
+ Understanding of automated ITCM/ITRM best practices
CORE WORK ACTIVITIES
+ Provides technical leadership, oversight, governance and direction for services related to Marriott solution delivery
+ Provides technical expertise to project team for successful project and change implementations
+ Determines customer requirements and works with sourced resources to develop solutions
+ Provides input into lifecycle, improvement, and standardization strategies
+ Develops and generates periodic utilization reports to provide visibility to performance, capacity, availability and SLA management
+ Utilize capacity data to model future state planning with overall strategy and goals
+ Provides and presents status, analysis and reporting to internal stakeholders, Executive Management and Senior Leadership
+ Trains and/or mentors other team members, and peers as appropriate
+ Leads analysis of current environment for deficiencies and provides solutions
+ Identifies opportunities to enhance the service delivery, operations and continual service improvement processes
+ 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
+ Monitor and drive industry best practice Continuous Delivery principals for improvement of application and feature deployment velocity with minimal downtime
+ 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
Delivering Technology
+ Create and enhance administrative, operational and technical policies and procedures, adopting best practice guidelines, standards and procedures for employees, contractors and vendor engagements
+ Management of daily infrastructure operations to ensure availability SLA is met for storage services
+ Interfaces with stakeholders to establish requirements and formulate priorities for infrastructure projects
+ Leads/assists in configuration management
+ Works in a concerted effort with application development and engineering teams to resolve complex issues
+ Provides oversight, collaboration, provisioning, management and maintenance of technology products and service alternatives tha
