Cloud Engineer – Automation

Specific responsibilities and expectations include but not limited to:

  • Minimum 6 years in an infrastructure systems environment, preferably in large diverse server environments with high availability requirements.
  • Candidate must have extensive knowledge and real-world experience with Python, Bash, and YAML programming languages.
  • Provide mentorship to those with less experience in your area of expertise and foster forward-looking perspectives on technology that help deliver the best of breed services to our customers.
  • Interaction with management providing recommendations for new technologies, improved service availability, and management.
  • Provide advanced support and implement break-fix solutions to technical issues within the supported Infrastructure environments.
  • Expert support, maintenance, and troubleshooting knowledge of Linux and UNIX operating systems and experience or knowledge on VMWare is plus.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and Containerization is strongly desired
  • Experience with AWS services and administering admin console is a plus
  • Expert knowledge of various open-source automation tools : Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, Docker.
  • Scripting ability a must; preferably Python and Ruby
  • Ability to write Ansible Playbooks is a must
  • Experience in the design of redundant and high-availability solutions and frameworks and with EMC storage a plus
  • Experience with OpenSource storage options such as Ceph is a plus
  • Hands-on experience supporting server infrastructure in a large enterprise environment

Primary Technology Expertise Requirements

  1. Ansible / Ansible Tower
  2. Python (2.6 to 3.x)
  3. Bash / Korn
  4. YAML
  5. PowerShell