Storage/Cloud Engineers
Location: 100% remote
Duration: 1 year
Job Description
Our Client is in need of 2 Sr. Storage/Cloud Engineers with strong Ceph experience(IBM SAN product). This is fully remote with some limited travel to Arkansas. This is supporting a large initiative that IBM has support large retailer based in Bentonville Arkansas. Multiple years of experience supporting large scale highly available production Cloud Storage deployments with Ceph
Required:
- Experience with Linux Administration and System Troubleshooting.
- Strong familiarity with OpenStack or Kubernetes or Rook with Ceph as an underlying storage solution.
- Experience in programming scripting and development:
- Python or Shell Scripting
- Networking concepts and administration:
- TCP/IP routing switching VLANs Load balancing.
- Experience using source control systems (git)
- Experience in configuration management tools like Ansible/Puppet/Chef
- Experience with Containers (Kubernetes Docker etc.)
- Experience in Architecting infra solutions for applications.
- Experience with monitoring reporting tools and data analytics.
- Good understanding of clustered/distributed systems
- Apply best practice and team standards while meeting service level objectives.
- Experience working with cloud deployments (scaling resiliency load balancing etc.) and solid understanding of Service Monitoring KPI SLA Disaster Recovery
- Deep experience with the Linux ecosystem automation of common tasks and configuration of systems monitoring tools.
- Experience with capacity/performance management monitoring and tuning.
- Experience with firewalls VPN routing switching load balancers monitoring security and DNS.
- Knowledge of systems management concepts processes and standards
- Strong interpersonal skills to coordinate with other organizations across the business while managing customer expectations.
Additional Skills & Qualifications:
- Design implement communicate evangelize advocate for optimize and document private cloudbased Cloud Storage solutions using Ceph.
- Build tune troubleshoot block and object storage systems in high availability Ceph storage clusters.
- Design automation for storage optimization and other processes on private cloud platforms.
- Drive significant architectural decisions about the next iterations of our Private Cloud infrastructure that will improve efficiency and reduce Cloud Storage spend.
- Enable Application teams to follow best practices to deploy on Cloud Platforms and optimize Storage spend and improve efficiency and performance based on utilization with Ceph
- Participate in a 12x7 oncall rotation.
- Create and maintain technical documentation for operational readiness.
- Design and maintain cloud storage best practices.
- Become a solid contributor on our team and build extend and maintain some of the key infrastructure that powers our Private Cloud platform
- Provide troubleshooting expertise for storage performance and other issues.
- Train and educate others within Technology about Cloud technologies.
- Develop and integrate provisioning and lifecycle tools for storage services components.
- Contribute to an environment that promotes and reinforces the highest standards of integrity andethics.
- Demonstrates creativity and strength in the face of change obstacles or adversity.
- Adapt to competing demands and shifting priorities.