Description
Cloud Infrastructure Services seeks a self-driven engineer to play a vital role in implementation and operation of hosting environments leveraging virtualization, automation and orchestration technologies.
This position requires knowledge of all aspects of data center hosting including server, storage and networking principles and architecture.
The ability to work closely with IT architects and senior engineers in the architectural design, analysis and application integration work for new deployments is also required.
This role will be responsible for supporting one or more core platform services such as DNS, OpenStack, Ceph and Linux.
This position demands maintaining a high-level of expertise within the aligned technologies of the program.
Role & Responsibilities
- Lead and drive global collaboration and DevOps rituals (eg, daily live hand-off, etc.)
- Linux OS system administration experience
- Provide advanced troubleshooting of OS and hardware components
- Ability to perform L1-L3 network troubleshooting within Linux
- Scripting experience, preferably python
- Experience in designing and managing large server environments
- Knowledge of current industry best practices in Cloud infrastructure and system automation
- OpenStack deployment experience
- Experience with IaaS and PaaS layer technologies, particularly with OpenStack
- Ability to set architectural and tactical direction based on strategic needs
- Trend analysis on performance and growth with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana
- Automation tools experience (ansible, puppet)
- Familiar with version control tools, particularly with Git
- Keen to learn new technologies
- Ability to handle on-call responsibilities
Minimum Qualifications
- Outstanding customer interaction skills required
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Ability to work across cultures and time zones
- Typically requires BS/BA in related field and at least 2 years relevant experience
- Cisco Certifications a plus Allegis Group Limited and Aston Carter Limited operate Employment Businesses and Agencies and are companies within the Allegis Group Inc. group of companies, the fourth largest staffing company in the world, (collectively referred to as the "Allegis Group"). TEKsystems and Aerotek are divisions of Allegis Group Limited. Applicant data will be treated in accordance with the Allegis Group's Privacy Notice. By submitting personal data to any company or division within the Allegis Group, the applicant is providing explicit consent to the use of such data by the Allegis Group and to the transfer of such data to and from the Allegis Group companies within the UK, Europe and outside the European Economic Area in connection with the fulfilment of the applicant's voluntary requests, and the fulfilment of other job opportunities that match the applicant's profile, and confirms that they may be contacted about such job opportunities.