IT Infrastructure Engineer

First Century Bank N.A. IT Infrastructure Engineer

First Century Bank is a relationship-focused community bank providing financial services to consumers and businesses through financial technology partners. We are committed to delivering exceptional service maintaining strong relationships and providing innovative banking solutions while fostering a collaborative workplace where employees can grow and succeed.

The Infrastructure Engineer supports and maintains First Century Banks on-premises datacenter and cloud environments. This role is a generalist hands-on role responsible for implementing infrastructure changes resolving incidents performing system maintenance and supporting disaster recovery activities while following established standards change management procedures and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure maintain and troubleshoot the Banks network infrastructure including LAN/WAN switching routing VLANs firewalls VPNs and wireless technologies.
• Administer and maintain on-premises VMware (vSphere / ESXi / vCenter) Windows Server and Linux environments including physical server infrastructure and datacenter operations.
• Operate and maintain cloud workloads preferably Microsoft Azure (compute networking identity storage) in a hybrid model.
• Support secure connectivity and consistent configuration across on-prem and cloud.
• Administer enterprise storage backup and replication solutions including backup verification data restoration and recovery testing.
• Participate in disaster recovery and business continuity activities including failover testing and maintaining recovery documentation.
• Administer Active Directory Microsoft Entra ID and user access in accordance with security and least-privilege standards.
• Apply security updates system hardening and configuration standards while supporting audit and regulatory requirements.
• Monitor infrastructure health respond to system alerts and incidents and perform routine maintenance and patch management.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools primarily using PowerShell to improve operational efficiency.
• Provide advanced infrastructure support participate in scheduled maintenance and on-call support and maintain accurate technical documentation including configurations diagrams and runbooks.

Required Qualifications

• Three (3) or more years of hands-on infrastructure experience supporting network compute virtualization and storage/backup.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field or an equivalent combination of education certifications and relevant experience.
• Experience administering VMware vSphere Windows Server and Active Directory.
• Working knowledge of networking technologies including switching routing VLANs firewalls and VPNs.
• Experience with backup and recovery solutions and an understanding of high availability (HA) disaster recovery RTO and RPO concepts.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure and hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience with scripting and automation preferably using PowerShell.
• Experience working within formal change management processes and maintaining technical documentation.
• Strong troubleshooting problem-solving communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in banking financial services or another regulated industry.
• Industry certifications such as VMware VCP CCNA Microsoft AZ-104 Security.
• Experience with disaster recovery testing enterprise storage (SAN) and backup platforms.
• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and configuration management tools.

First Century Bank is an equal opportunity employer. It is the Companys policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to race color sex gender or gender identification religious creed or religious beliefs age national origin physical or mental disability pregnancy military or veterans status marital status sexual orientation or any other category protected by state or federal law.

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