• 8 years in an IT operational role supporting mission critical solutions or applications with 5 years leading an infrastructure organization
• 5 years’ experience in some or all the following:
• Bachelor's Degree in IT-related field with five (5) years of equivalent combination of education and experience and training
• 3 years of experience providing similar operations and sustainment support with Akamai, Redis, varnish or native cloud caching, Fortify other Content Delivery Network (CDN)

• In-depth understanding of CDN concepts and experience with Akamai ION Platform, WAF, managed Kona and Bot Manager
• Strong diagnostic skills with regards to identification and classification of malicious BOT traffic
• Solid understanding of one or more general purpose programming/script languages such as NodeJS, C/C , C#, Python, JavaScript, Bash and PowerShell
• Experience in Network Edge solutions
• Familiarity with large scale cloud infrastructure, including network architectures, routing, DNS, TCP/IP protocols, and SSL/TLS ciphers
• In-depth understanding of observability tools like Splunk and Dynatrace and other relevant tools
• Outstanding data analysis and data-driven decision-making skills
• Understanding of API security requirements and capabilities
• Ability to build positive relationships between Architects, Engineering and Development Teams

• Expert knowledge/experience in any of the following:
  • Public Clouds/Virtual Private Clouds
    • Amazon Web Services (AWS) / EC2
    • Microsoft Azure
    • Oracle Cloud
    • Ali cloud
    • SaaS
  • Private Cloud Infrastructure
    • OpenStack
    • VMware / vRealize / VMware Integrated OpenStack
• Ability to design a global end to end architecture that supports high service availability
• Industry standard Operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Solid understanding of some or all of the following:
  • Applications/Frameworks – Tomcat, Play, Node.js, NginX, JavaEE, or HTML5

• Experience in core enterprise applications and/or application development tools
• Experience in developing, implementing, and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Infrastructure Immutability, and/or API Driven Infrastructure

Preferred: 

• Graduate Degree in a technical discipline
• Experience designing with application integration technologies (Web Services, REST)
• Experience working in DevSecOps and agile methodologies
• Experience with the contractual language supporting IaaS, PaaS and SaaS support models
• Familiar with both relational (Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL) and non-relational (Cassandra, Couchbase, MongoDB) database technologies
• Experience working with Docker Containers, Jenkins, Container Orchestration, and Modern Application PaaS (Pivotal Cloud Foundry, BlueMix, OpenShift Enterprise) solutions for application build and runtime management
• Supported infrastructure for retail and/or hospitality business
• Experience in developing and implementing strategic IT technologies and related processes, procedures, and decision support.
• Experience with business requirements gathering/analysis.
• Experience in researching emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products
• Experience in developing technology roadmaps and strategies