Puppet Administrator

Pennsylvania  ‐ Onsite
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Description

POSITION DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES Deployment of Scientific Software

  • Coding puppet manifests and modules
  • Testing puppet code
  • Deploy software via puppet code
  • Troubleshooting problems with code deployment

Puppet Administration

  • Install puppet software
  • Upgrade Puppet infrastructure across multiple sites and Puppet Masters
  • Test upgrades
  • Troubleshoot issues as they arise

Other Responsibilities

  • Administration of Linux Servers in research environments
  • Assist in support of GPFS storage environments
  • Install scientific software for scientists

Skill & Competency Requirements:

  • Puppet Certified professional
  • 5+ years' experience in a large complex Puppet environment
  • 3+ years' experience with complex hiera structures
  • Experience upgrading environment distributed across multiple sites/puppet masters
  • Ability to develop training environment for new team members
  • Experience deploying scientific software in a small HPC environment
    • Experience with Puppet and other configuration management tools.
    • Excitement about working with the Puppet community
    • Unix &/or Linux SysAdmin or DevOps background, including automation
    • Passion for problem solving
  • Excellent time and project management skills
  • Requires logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
  • Requires contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, virtual meetings, VOIP or otherwise) and the ability to work and interact in a group or team
Start date
n.a
From
Software Specialists
Published at
20.04.2018
Project ID:
1542049
Contract type
Freelance
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