Duration: 1 year
Contract: 100% remote with limited travel (travel is paid for by client)
Bentonville, Arkansas
Job Description
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 has support large retailer based in Bentonville, Arkansas. Multiple years of experience supporting large scale, highly available, production Cloud Storage deployments with Ceph
- 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 cloud-based 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 on-call 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.