Enterprise Platform Engineer – Unix/Storage/Cloud

Enterprise Platform Engineer – Unix/Storage/Cloud

Main Duties & Responsibilities

§  Deliver systems and storage solutions based on Linux driven by requirements and develop standards to ensure consistency across all environments.

§  Proof of concept and new technology evaluation.

§  Benchmarking and performance analysis of existing and new technologies.

§  Manage and maintain a multi-cloud environment and evaluate new cloud services as they become available.

§  Promotion of DevOps best practices (CICD, automated testing, branching strategy, and environment decoupling.)

§  Proactively automate common tasks and functions to improve efficiency and support Infrastructure as a Service.

§  Manage BAU requests/services/processes as a member of a global team to provide a highly available environment employing automation, optimization and continual service improvement practices were possible to achieve outstanding service delivery.

§  Produce well-structured and comprehensive technical documentation for support teams.

§  Help cultivate the highest standards in systems engineering, automation, and development

Must have Qualifications:

§  Minimum of 7 years working with Linux (RHEL/CentOS/OEL preferred) in a large, complex or niche environment with the following

areas of focus: systems engineering & performance, configuration management, day to day operations

§  Experience working with various cloud providers (AWS and GCP)

§  Server Management and Support: HP, SuperMicro, Cisco UCS

§  Storage Management and Support: NetApp, DDN, EMC, and Vast

§  Filesystem Management and Support: LVM, EXT4, XFS, GPFS, NFS

§  Strong working knowledge of configuration management tools such as Chef, Terraform, or Puppet

§  Strong understanding of source control concepts, best practices and the software development lifecycle.

§  Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware and containers (standalone and Kubernetes)

§  Experience with a distributed job scheduler such as Slurm or HTCondor

§  Working knowledge of TCP, UDP, NTP, PTP

§  Naturally collaborative, inclusive, and team oriented.

§  Systematic and iterative approach to analyzing and improving systems and processes

§  Strong verbal and written communication skills.

§  Critical thinking and problem-solving skills

§  Well-organized, proactive, resourceful, able to handle a fast-paced environment, question the status quo, accountable and possesses an ownership mindset.

Preferred Qualifications:

§  Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related experience.