Platform Security Engineer

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Design, evaluates, installs, and administers components and facilities for platform-specific infrastructure. He provides technical support services to personnel in other ITG teams. Plans, prepares, recommends and implements medium-term roadmaps for the enterprise-level infrastructure that he manages.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Installs and administers infrastructure components and facilities. Maintains infrastructure uptime, performance and security at agreed service levels.
• Researches industry developments regarding his assigned infrastructure components, to learn and implement better infrastructure administration practices, understand cost-effective alternatives, and to guard against unplanned obsolescence. Where needed, recommends better and / or more cost-effective replacement infrastructure.
• Provides technical support and consultancy services to personnel in data center operations, applications management, and risk management. Advises applications managers on infrastructure considerations so they can design applications optimally.
• Communicates, and coordinates with infrastructure vendors regarding product updates, fixes, and support requirements.
• Periodically monitors the “health” and performance of his assigned infrastructure components, and regularly reports the status of such to his seniors.
• Performs regular housekeeping on his assigned infrastructure components, e.g. cleanup of unnecessary components, system-level backup, vendor preventive maintenance, etc. as applicable.
• Documents the configuration of his assigned infrastructure components, and keeps such documentation updated and secure.
• Performs configuration management, change management, availability management, security and patch management.
• Performs other functions that may be assigned from time to time.

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