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Job Summary:
Albany International Corp. is a global advanced textiles and materials processing company, and they are seeking a Data Center Engineer to manage their Global Data Centers. The role involves planning and executing IT initiatives, providing technical support, and ensuring the infrastructure aligns with organizational goals.
Responsibilities:
• Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot enterprise storage, compute, data protection, and networking systems on an ongoing basis.
• Implement enterprise‑level data center solutions across architecture, security, data protection, disaster recovery, monitoring, and provisioning.
• Ensure all solutions align with organizational policies, platform standards, cloud strategies, data governance, and reference architectures.
• Provide engineering expertise and escalation support to operations and functional teams.
• Conduct root cause analysis and deliver recommendations to prevent recurrence of issues.
• Provision and decommission virtual compute and storage resources within Hyper-V and Azure IaaS environments.
• Install, configure, operate, and maintain data center hardware, software, and related infrastructure, including Hyper-V virtualization, NetApp storage, and Dell servers.
• Document technology implementations and operational procedures to ensure adherence to established standards and best practices.
• Oversee server, storage, and backup monitoring while maintaining accurate infrastructure documentation and compliance with IT standards.
• Maintain deep knowledge of data center architecture, industry trends, and emerging technologies to ensure optimal utilization of enterprise assets.
Qualifications:
Required:
• BS Degree in computer science or engineering
• Microsoft Azure certification or training
• 3–5 years of experience working with data center technologies in an engineering role with progressively increasing responsibilities.
• Demonstrated knowledge and hands‑on implementation of High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, and Performance Tuning best practices.
• Strong understanding of enterprise‑level storage, compute, and networking concepts and technologies.
• Advanced proficiency with Azure IaaS components, including compute (VMs, containers, serverless, PaaS services), storage (Blob, File Share, Storage Accounts), and networking (Azure Firewall, NSGs, VNETs).
• Experience administering Windows and Linux server systems in Hyper-V and Azure IaaS environments.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP networking, including ACLs, VLANs, and routing.
• Familiarity with infrastructure monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor and SCOM.
• Strong skills in configuration management, Infrastructure‑as‑Code, scripting, and markup languages (PowerShell, YAML, JSON, Ansible, Terraform).
• Solid understanding of Azure cloud security principles, including NSGs, RBAC, service‑to‑service authentication, least‑privilege access models, and environment segmentation.
• Operational proficiency applying ITSM frameworks to daily workflows and processes.
• Strong supervisory and leadership skills.
• Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to conduct and direct research into IT issues and products.
• Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language.
• Highly self-motivated, self-directed, and attentive to detail.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Extensive experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Embrace continuous learning to broaden and harden technical, business, written and verbal communication skills.
• Require strong communicating skills in remote phone or video conferencing situations.
• Domestic and International travel required.
• Sitting for extended periods of time.
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, power tools, and to handle other computer components.
• Occasional inspection of cables in floors and ceilings.
• Lifting and transporting of moderately heavy objects, such as computers and peripherals.
• Off hours/on call support as required.
• US Citizens and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply, we are unable to sponsor at this time.
Preferred:
• Experience in manufacturing or Department of Defense (DoD) environments is highly desirable.
Company:
Albany International is a global advanced textiles and materials processing company with two core businesses. Founded in 1895, the company is headquartered in Rochester, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.