Senior Distributed Systems Consultant

Illinois  ‐ Onsite
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This consultant will have two major tasks:

  • Update the idle virtual machine detection system which was made last year to work with the newer version of OpenNebula which had a significant restructuring of its monitoring system
  • Produce a prototype of a system which can automatically convert RAW or QCOW2 virtual image files to image files which can be uploaded to Amazon AWS.
  • Scope of work: The consultant will be responsible for some or all of the following area of work in the Cloud project

    • Idle VM Detection system features
    • Understand Cloud architecture; get familiar with major tools and components.  Meet with team to discuss any new features that should be added
    • Work with operations staff to re-activate existing idle VM detection system and with developers to understand new monitoring structure of OpenNebula 4.4
    • Write and test monitoring plugins in OpenNebula 4.4
    • Work with operations team for successful deployment, documentation, and design considerations to extend to other clouds
    • VM transfer service features
    • Familiarize self with existing manual procedure to convert Cloud to AWS and successfully manually
    • Design (or find existing service) which can automate the transfer
    • Implement service and test with user virtual machines
    • Documentation and modification of service based on feedback from team

    Requirements:

    • Bachelor's degree in science with 5+ years of related working experience.
    • Experience with development, integration, testing, and troubleshooting of distributed systems on Linux
    • Experience with Cloud-related technologies and computing in an Infrastructure-as-a-Service environment
    • Solid knowledge of Java, python or ruby, and UNIX Shell Scripting
    • Experience in the definition of web-enabled protocols, such as Web Services or REST.
    • Demonstrated ability to work independently and with only general directions from a supervisor
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
    • Familiarity with OpenNebula is a plus.
    Start date
    n.a
    From
    Request Technology
    Published at
    15.05.2014
    Project ID:
    707295
    Contract type
    Freelance
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