Description
NextLink are currently working with a market leading consultancy who are seeking an OpenShift/Gluster FS design build specialist for their Swindon offices.
Role: OpenShift/Gluster FS design build specialist
Location: Swindon, UK
Duration: 6 months
Start date: ASAP (immediate)
Responsibilities
- Implement automated, containerized on private data centre servers application platform solution, with a focus on application concerns including distributed application architectures, migrating workloads to containers, containerized development workflows, and integrating container platforms with automated CI/CD pipelines
- Build, test and administer several highly available RedHat OpenShift Container Platform clusters.
- Build, test and administer several highly available RedHat Container storage (OCS- Gluster).
- Writing and modification of Ansible.
- Serve as a subject matter expert with the ability to explain and translate relevant details of the OpenShift platform and its constituent components to those less familiar
- Work with the client to develop solutions, feature enhancements, and define technical infrastructure environment specific to the client’s organisation
- Troubleshoot the platform and issues related to integrations with other internal systems
- Monitor hardware, VM and container metrics for the purposes of maintaining cluster health and identifying thresholds for scaling
- Define and document standards and guidelines
- Develop and automate repeatable tasks
- Consult with architects and designers to determine requirements and recommend solutions
- Assist with configuration and maintenance of interfaces for related tool integrations
- Performance tuning of infrastructure components.
- Identify, clarify, and resolve project activity issues and risks, escalating as needed
Mandatory Expereince
- In depth knowledge and experience of installing, configuring and operating OpenShift and Gluster on-Linux environments.
- 6-10 years of experience working with DevOps
- Extensive knowledge of Linux Containers (Docker), Kubernetes, and deployment of containerized applications/microservices architectures
- Good knowledge of Ansible
- Experience of working with different languages and scripting tool
- Provide support for tracing and help with Triage for application running on OpenShift
- Should be able to create Support handover documentation.
- Experience with NGINX, Apache.
- Must have worked on Creating GlusterFS cluster (Replicate, Distributed-Replicate, Arbiter, etc).
- Creating/Adding/Tuning Gluster Storage Volume
- Monitoring and publishing report of Gluster
- Configuring GlusterFS to enable features like NFS, CTDB, Geo-Replication etc.
- Experience in upgrade/downgrade the Gluster Cluster
- Experience in expand/shrink the Gluster cluster
- Experience in designing of Gluster storage components
- Debugging and troubleshooting memory leaks in Gluster
- Designing Gluster and its flow.
- Must have experience in RHEL
- Experience in yaml files
- Good knowledge of Git, Redhat Enterprise Linux and Certificate management
- Working knowledge of VMware
- Should be able to create Support handover documentation
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