When you're part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll do exciting work, and be part of a team that values performance, quality and innovation. As part of a successful, growing global organization you will be encouraged to perform at your best. with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.
**Location/Division Specific Information**
Costa Rica
Being part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, the colleague will do ambitious work along with a team that values performance, quality, and innovation. As part of a successful, growing global organization you will be encouraged to perform at your best. With annual revenue of approximately $40 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make meaningful contributions to the world.
**How will I make an impact**
An IT Operations Center (ITOC) - administrator is responsible for maintaining and upgrading systems such that environment is secured and updated. This role includes, but not limited to system operations, patch management, system upgrades, cloud integration initiatives, and various operational projects to meet business objectives. This role will allow thinking creatively and empower colleagues to make decisions and implement with guardrails not gates. Your efficient contribution will help the business and the company to enable our customers succeed.
Operational critical issues will be brought up to this on-call role.
**What will I do**
Play a key role in Thermo Fisher's digital transformation. Drive company's IT Operational Support environment and initiative and working with global platform and Infrastructure & development teams.
The role will benefit the colleague to work in areas such as..
Reliability Engineering
Platform Engineering
Backup & Storage Engineering
Tools and automation
Cloud computing
Networking
- Handle environments in AWS with a focus on ec2, and Systems Manager
- Fundamental knowledge in writing shell scripts, debugging errors, and modifying scripts when vital
- Prefer good experience on VMware, ILO and physical servers
- Need to be proficient with DNS, FTP and NFS also with remote access and security.
- Experience in migrating servers and upgrading servers.
- Drive root cause analyses, and mentor others on doing them, in collaboration with software development teams.
- Analyze and adjust designs to assist in predicting and improving system stability.
- Provide L2 operational support for Windows infrastructure resides on physical, virtual and cloud environment.
In addition to this..
- Handling and supervising the service management work queue to address customer requests within the established service level agreements.
- Participating in the on-call rotation with other members of the team to provide support coverage for the global Windows infrastructure.
- Find opportunities to improve the infrastructure by implementing the standards that have been established by the Global Systems Reliability team.
- Ensure the highest possible level of server uptime and availability by proactively identifying and fixing infrastructure related problems.
- Participate in infrastructure upgrades, improvements, and maintenance activities.
- Bring automation to improve efficiency!
- Works closely with our external partners and industry leaders to enable us have a keen understanding of where industry trends and technologies are going and factor those into our strategies and roadmaps.
- Previous experience with Service Now and proficiency in crafting workflows.
- Ensure the solutions the Reliability Engineering team crafts and delivers are meeting defined business requirements and will stand the test of time from an operational excellence perspective.
- Work closely with IT Security to make sure the solutions we're designing and delivering meet data security and compliance requirements.
- Be available for scheduling for 24/7 oncall rotation to respond to and resolve issues.
**How can I get here?**
4-year degree with major in Computer Science/ Engineering (or equivalent) from an accredited university
2-3 years' experience with VMware Virtualization/AWS Cloud infrastructure management
Must have a minimum of 1+ years of experience in Cloud Solutions Delivery and Cloud architecture, especially public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP. Strong preference for AWS experience
4+ years' experience in Windows Server OS Administration
3+ years L3 Infrastructure Operational Support experience
**Tool & Technology Skills**
In depth understanding and experience in AWS and a cloud first/cloud only initiative
AWS proficiency (ec2, s3, Systems Manager, RDS, Route 53, Lambda, IAM, VPC, Security groups) and other services
Experience in the Windows administration/engineering
- Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employ
