StorageCloud Engineers

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.