Infrastructure Engineer

About FlightSafety International FlightSafety International is the world's premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. FlightSafety operates the world's largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and award-winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom. Purpose of Position The Infrastructure Engineer proactively and holistically participates in and supports architecture/engineering activities that guide the development and management of technical and infrastructure solutions. These solutions enable the organization's future-state business capabilities and drive the organization's targeted business outcomes. Technologies include data center, infrastructure, cloud, mobile, AI, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, edge computing, and immersive experiences technologies. In addition, the Infrastructure Engineer creates deliverables that help develop target-state guidance (reusable standards, guidelines, individual parts, platforms, and configurations) for evolving the technical infrastructure across the enterprise to enable business strategy and deliver targeted business outcomes. Tasks and Responsibilities Works with peers (e.g., enterprise, business, information, solutions, and security architects) to analyze business strategy and trends and change requirements in other enterprise architecture viewpoints (such as business, information, and solution) to derive the future state technology architecture. This includes defining the requirements, principles, and models that guide technology decisions for the enterprise* Analyzes the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt and recommends solutions for improvement. In addition, leads the analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise and the enterprise technology architecture* Collaborates with technical subject matter experts and peers to develop technology architecture that enables and drives new business capabilities and operating models* Drives digital innovation by leveraging innovative new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and transform the existing core technology base and IT estate* Defines high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the future and current state* Understands technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models* Guides technology investment decisions based on analysis and evaluation to drive targeted business outcomes* Assists with designing the governance, assurance, and standards activities associated with ensuring enterprise technology architecture compliance of projects and products* Participates in the research, evaluation, and selection of software technology and product standards and the design of standard configurations* Facilitates technology implementation and modification activities (for example, projects and products), particularly for new or shared infrastructure solutions* Consults on application or infrastructure development projects to harmonize systems or infrastructure with the enterprise technology architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise technical architecture (ETA) to accommodate immediate or future project needs* Creates and delivers working, production-ready reference implementations that can be leveraged easily by agile teams* Works closely with the product managers, product owners, and peers (e.g., enterprise, business, information, security, and solutions architects) to enable infrastructure a