Selecting the Right Principal Infrastructure Engineers
Hiring is one of the toughest challenges any company can face, either large enterprises or new startups. There is a great deal of know-how kind of experience when hiring a Principal Infrastructure Engineer, not all companies have the right processes that can warrant best hires.
At SupportFinity, we streamlined our processes and in-house standards to make sure of having one of the top world-class hiring processes. The magic mix of skills ingredients is what separates a great hire from a not-so-good one. We came to this conclusion through consulting top technical and HR experts in addition to our years of work and exposure with most sophisticated projects across almost all tech verticals and areas of expertise. So you get one of the best recruitment processes to hire a Principal Infrastructure Engineer.
As we have created and crafted a unique method of teams’ customization, we have also perfected our signature model of matching the right skills for our customers to hire either one Principal Infrastructure Engineer or a team of Principal Infrastructure Engineers. We have a long lasting belief in the power of data analytics in creating unmatchable results, thus, we apply our analytical models on our hiring process same as we do in our business model.
Principal Infrastructure Engineer Job Description Template
Principal Infrastructure Engineer
AKA: IT Infrastructure Architect
- The Principal Infrastructure Engineer upholds lead role in the architecture, designs and implementation of the highly scalable hosted solutions.
- The Principal Infrastructure Engineer develops and maintains key aspects of the technology base.
- The Principal Infrastructure Engineer assists in the development and implementation of security best practices and initiatives.
- Automates application deployments across multiple environments.
- The Principal Infrastructure Engineer acts as second level engineering support for incidents, understanding technical interdependencies for end-to-end problem solving.
- Serves as a subject matter expert for system specific issues, processes, and regulations.
- Collaborates and works cross-functionally in designing and building our marque product.
- Advocates for modern agile software development practices that delivers high quality code.
- Experience developing for Continuous Deployment on AWS, GCP or similar.
- Building reactive web and mobile technologies.
- Experience supporting Development, Testing and Production infrastructure.
- Prior experience in developing, implementing, and continuously improving the use of monitoring tools.
- Experience with modern automation and orchestration technologies.
- Solid understanding of fundamental technologies like networking, security best practices, performance, high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
- Experienced in analyzing and resolving server performance, scalability and reliability issues.
- Proficient in scripting in one or more programming languages. .
We receive requests of hiring from candidates among more than 100 countries.
As we bring skills from each and every place in the world, we make sure we have the
right match of language proficiency with our clients' requirements.
Your Principal Infrastructure Engineer or team of Principal Infrastructure Engineers will have the needed level of language knowledge you expect,
each candidate passes through our language tests that warrant at least a good
command of reading, writing and speaking of the languages our clients ask for.
We know that communication starts from speaking common languages, thus we put this aspect as a first factor in
our selection process, we do not proceed with hiring for Principal Infrastructure Engineer before making sure that the
candidate passes the language ability tests first.
The next level of screening we perform at SupportFinity is the
communication quality, in this stage we make sure that the Principal Infrastructure Engineer
can deliver high quality of communication; especially on the technical aspects of the job.
We conduct our assessments to cover multiple aspects of communication
quality, such as:
The ability of self-explanation ( writing – speaking )
The ability of describing problems structurally and technically ( writing & speaking)
The ability of explaining ideas, situations and problems ( reading, writing & speaking)
This part mainly measures the logical, numerical and analytical aptitude of each candidate, top ones are the only ones we select for next stages.
We have a set of interview tests that measure the agreeability levels of each candidate for
Principal Infrastructure Engineer, we do so as we believe that likability of any person starts from the ability
to achieve high levels of agreeability without compromising critical thinking.
We also measure the creativity side of the Principal Infrastructure Engineer you look for, where we see when and how each
candidate can apply out-of-the-box and innovative ways of fixing problems or creating new solutions.
Some people can do well when working on their own, some others cannot!
Knowing this matters a lot when hiring a Principal Infrastructure Engineer with regard to the team size needed.
Remote work needs a special level of team work skills, so we make sure that your Principal Infrastructure Engineer can adapt and work well with your team
and be quickly part of it if needed.
We care about hiring someone who can deliver, create and perform the way you expect
with passion and enthusiasm.
We assess our people’s technical abilities on the merits of achievements more
than anything else.
Hiring the right Principal Infrastructure Engineer is an uneasy decision, we consider
measing the actual technical skills of each candidate.
Having a great resume
is just the start for us, we select candidates know what they say
they know!
We conduct advanced technical tests to make sure we cover the needed knowledge your
Principal Infrastructure Engineer needs to have to excel for your business.
We weigh academic qualifications as well, we also request our full time employees to submit their education evidence as a major hiring rule to follow. We believe having the right academic qualifications can make a great difference, especially in advanced science based areas like electronic design, engineering planning...etc.
One important metric for us is the ability of your Principal Infrastructure Engineer to learn new skills, so we make sure that we select people who are only dynamic and willing to learn new ones.
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