Lead Platform Engineer - Fulltime-Hybrid at Confidential company

Title: Lead Platform Engineer 
Location: Dallas, TX, Jersey City, NJ
Hybrid 3 days onsite and 2 days remote.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 8 years of related experience in IT service design, delivery and / or support.
• Experience working with diverse technologies, teams and thorough understandings of hardware and software stacks.
• Proficiency in mission critical IT platform support.
• Understanding of IT service risk assessment process and IT Service high availability/recovery design principles.
• Consistent track record for min 8 years in IT with experience supporting platforms.
• Working knowledge of 3 tier architecture and application security,
• Hands-on Experience and/or expertise in operating systems (Red hat, Windows, z/OS), virtualization (VMWARE, OpenShift), networking (CISCO) storage (EMC, NetApp)
• Technical understanding of middleware (Tomcat, WebSphere), messaging (MQ / Kafka), DB technologies (Oracle, DB2).
• Knowledge of Cloud service offerings (AWS, Azure).
• Ability to work across teams to create partnerships that achieve organization goals, and passionate about building an innovative culture.
• Ability to work in dynamic projects with ever evolving requirements.
• Highly motivated individual ready to learn and work beyond technology silos.