Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Job Description

• Collaborate as a value-adding member of a team responsible for leading the integration, implementation, testing, and operational transition support of the virtualized network functions and underlying infrastructure.
• Maintain an accurate picture of existing server, storage, networking software, and hardware and virtual environments to support scaling against various project requirements.
• Create, use, and recommend automation tools that would allow simplifying the operations of the environment being built and maintained.
• Analyze logs, traffic trace, configuration data, automation tools to troubleshoot.

The challenges

• Maintain high standards for network reliability and stability while deploying new services or implementing changes.
• Drive the need to design, test, and deploy quickly and efficiently.
• Able to learn new technologies as needed and open to changing technological direction as required by the team to lead new projects and initiatives.

What success looks like

• Completing the deployment of network functions deployment as virtual machines running on hypervisors.
• Evangelize the concept of continual process improvement relating to virtualization.
• Creating meaningful customer relationships that lead to more engagements.

The skills and experience that will help you succeed

• Strong experience in virtualization and/or cloud infrastructure environments.
• Knowledge and experience in large-scale hypervisor environments (VMware, KVM)
• 2+ years of strong experience with container technologies Docker and Kubernetes.
• 2+ years of strong experience with OpenStack and services (Nova, Keystone, Horizon, etc.) in large environments.
• 2+ years of strong experience with Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu) administration, configuration, patching and upgrading.
• 2+ years of experience with scripting/automation (Bash, Python, Ansible, etc.)
• Knowledge and experience with storage technologies such as Ceph, SAN and NAS.
• Knowledge and experience with networking protocols and technologies such as SRIOV.
• Experience and knowledge with Contrail, Neutron and Calico.
• Strong experience with integration, configuration and support of virtual infrastructure layers (compute, networking and storage).
• Experience with Foreman, Nagios and Kabana.
• Experience in migration (and retrofitting) applications and/or operating systems from physical (bare metal) to virtual environments including application profiling and virtual hardware dimensioning.
• Knowledge and experience with Public Clouds (eg. Azure, GCP, AWS, OCI) a plus.
• Must have strong troubleshooting and documentation skills.
• Must be a strong team player, engaging and effective communicator.
• Experience with packet core, networking, and OSS desirable.
• Certifications in above technologies (Azure, OpenStack, K8s, etc.) preferable.