At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you'll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation.

Position Overview:

Our rapidly evolving IT department is in search of a "Infrastructure Engineering/Unix Engineer - Technical Lead " with excellent technical/communication skills and a consistent track record of setting and reaching team goals! The position will also provide the planning, engineering, and delivery of business scalable infrastructure solutions to meet project timeline and needs while ensuring design compliance and enforcement of the latest best practices and technology standards.

Our Impact:

• We assure Stability, Availability and Reliability for thousands of servers to support a wide range of applications in a hybrid Cloud environment
• We strive to prevent service impacts in a wide-ranging and constantly evolving ecosystem, assure rapid recoverability from any impacts to business and services
• We strategize and transform IT with Automation and Process Engineering

• Leverage and align work to appropriate resources across the team to ensure work is completed in the most efficient and impactful way, including automating processes where possible
• Understand capabilities and current trends to maximize efficiency of team by leveraging current tools and applications in place and look for opportunities to improve turnaround time.
• Provide appropriate level of support within the organization to understand needs and develop a strategy in support of the Infrastructure Operations division's delivery model and feedback from key stakeholder groups
• Identify and implement best practice methodologies across the environments that support the organization with the highest level of effectiveness and impact by working with vendors and other engineering team
• Keep abreast of best-in-class and current trends in training and development and make recommendations to improve or better align offerings with the goals of the company
• Identify and manage external vendors to ensure offerings are effective, achieving the desired impact and there is an acceptable cost to value ratio
• Leverage learning industry trends to foster greater efficiency and deliver innovation and positive learning experiences

• 8-10 years demonstrated experience in Information Technology with in-depth knowledge of Linux and Infrastructure Engineering; College degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum 2 years of development experience in AWS services - Code Pipeline, Code build, Cloud Formation templates, Systems manager, AWS lambda
• Prior experience with scripting and automation using (Python, Ansible, Jenkins and shell and bash scripting)
• Experience with CICD pipelines for code versioning and code deployments
• Ability to lead projects and mentor junior team members
• Understanding of vulnerability management and risk remediation
• Experience in HA and DR concepts as they apply to Infrastructure Designs
• Experience with Legacy to Current Infrastructure migrations
• An eye for automating common processes
• Communicates well within the team to set clear goals and effectively relay the status and accomplishments to management

• Communicates and influences very effectively.
• Should have an inclination for innovation and current trends and focus on implementation the latest trends in-house.
• Demonstrates deep job specific knowledge and methodologies to drive effective change and transform how work is performed.
• Elevates team members via mentoring and knowledge sharing. Highly effective team member .
• Significant contributions to strategy and objectives using knowledge leadership for areas of responsibility.
• Thinks beyond individual sphere.