Sr IT Engineer, Windows

Company: Ulta Beauty
Location: Bolingbrook
Posted on: July 23, 2021

Job Description:

OVERVIEW

Live the experience. From professional empowerment to continual learning opportunities. From ongoing investment in new and emerging technologies to a career of self-determination. At Ulta Beauty, our tech team is critical to our scalability—and is recognized that way. We’ve been defined as a “mature start-up.” A place where interdepartmental exposure, open doors, and genuine collaboration is ubiquitous. Where challenges come fast and furious, requiring agility, mental dexterity, and creativity. Where our passion for better solutions drives us and is core to who we are.

We’re engineering for the future of retail, and it’s no-holds-barred. But for those motivated by continual change and ambiguity, by superior leadership, by whip smart colleagues who will press you daily for your very best, you’ll find that virtually nothing’s impossible at Ulta Beauty.

THE IMPACT YOU CAN HAVE:

The Senior IT Engineer plays a critical role in engineering, design, maintenance, installation, and troubleshooting of the Windows Platform.  They are responsible for Windows Server administration, Windows Clustering, SQL Clustering, SAP CI cluster build, Windows DFS and Work in Secondary platforms such as DNS, VMWare, Nutanix, UCS, HPE Synergy.

YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH ALL OF THIS BY:

• Incident Management: Manages the prioritization and diagnosis of incidents according to agreed procedures. Investigates causes of incidents and seeks resolution. Manages the escalation of unresolved incidents. Coordinates recovery, following resolution of incidents. Manages the documentation and closure of resolved incidents according to agreed procedures.
• Problem Management: Ensures that appropriate action is taken to anticipate, investigate and resolve problems in systems and services. Ensures that such problems are fully documented within the relevant reporting system(s).  Leads the development of problem solutions. Coordinates the implementation of agreed remedies and preventative measures. Evaluates patterns and trends.
• Change Management: Develops implementation plans for complex requests for change. Evaluates risks to the integrity of service environment inherent in proposed implementations (including availability, performance, security and compliance of the business services impacted). Seeks authority for those activities, reviews the effectiveness of change implementation, suggests improvement to organizational procedures governing change management. Leads the assessment, analysis, development, documentation and implementation of changes based on requests for change.

• Project Management: Defines, documents and carries out small projects. Carries out project approach with stakeholders, and prepares realistic plans (including quality, risk and communications plans) and documents activities against the project schedule, liaising with stakeholders as appropriate.
• Systems Integration: Designs and builds integration components and interfaces. Leads practical integration work under the technical direction of the system /service designer. Contributes to the overall design of the service and assesses the technical criteria for product or component selection.
• Business Process Improvement: Analyzes business processes; identifies alternative solutions, documents feasibility and recommends new approaches. Contributes to evaluating the factors which must be addressed in the change program. Helps establish requirements for the implementation of changes in the business process.
• Capacity Planning: Develops and maintains standards and procedures for service component capacity management. Pro-actively reviews information in conjunction with service level agreements to identify any capacity issues and specifies any required changes. 
• Customer Service Support: Liaises as the routine contact point, receiving and handling requests for support. Contributes to creation of support documentation.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Administration of a Windows Environment
• Experience with Microsoft server security and hardening servers.
• Experience with Java and .Net applications
• Experience in GCP and Azure
• Working knowledge of Hardware platforms (HPE, UCS, Nutanix, EMC Storage)
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure Services AD, DNS, DHCP etc.
• Ability to learn, test and implement new technologies and methods for potential use at Ulta
• Ability to work with team members from a variety of disciplines
• Ability to contribute to automation of Infrastructure (PowerShell, BigFix and Ansible)

ESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS:

Qualified candidates will have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or applicable work experience, Preferred Certifications – MCSE and5+ years of progressive IT engineering experience, including Windows and Hardware Platform Administration. Additional requirements include:

• Strong experience in Windows Administration, Windows server 2012/2016/2019
• Strong experience in MS Windows Clustering, SQL clustering and SAP CI cluster build.
• Scripting skills with either Bash, Python, PowerShell, or PowerCLI are required.
• Expert level knowledge in Windows Server and RHEL
• Demonstrate decision making, problem solving and analytical skills with attention given to detail and accuracy
• Strong team player with proven experience to collaborate with other server, network, storage engineers and administrators
• Excellent communication skills; feels comfortable working with non-technical business partners

• Able to follow-up, follow through and deliver quality and timely results
• Able to prioritize workloads and adjust schedule to meet deadlines
• Able to adapt to rapidly changing technologies and apply them to evolving business needs

• Off-Hours support including 24x7 on-call required
• Minimal travel required (training/conferences)

#LI-CH1*

At Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA), the possibilities are beautiful. Ulta Beauty is the largest North American beauty retailer and the premier beauty destination for cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products and salon services. We bring possibilities to life through the power of beauty each and every day in our stores and online with more than 25,000 products from approximately 500 well-established and emerging beauty brands across all categories and price points, including Ulta Beauty’s own private label. Ulta Beauty also offers a full-service salon in every store featuring—hair, skin, brow, and make-up services.

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.

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