Systems Engineer (Compute)
*4x a week on-site Englewood, CO*
Optomi, in partnership with a leader in communications sector, is seeking a Systems Engineer (Compute) for a hybrid role in their Englewood, CO location! The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years of experience with extensive server, automation, and Linux experience. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the on-premise server infrastructure!
Responsibilities of the right candidate:
- Support and maintain existing lab infrastructure leveraging defined ticketing and resource scheduling processes.
- Participates in evaluation of new and existing server infrastructure capabilities and features, to ensure requirements are met for both existing applications and new product services.
- Contributes to architectural discussions, with both internal and external peers, to ensure proposed solutions are meeting business and operational needs.
- Participates in collaborations with other engineering and operational organizations to understand unmet requirements and challenges and recommend solutions.
- Collaborate with peers related to the compute and storage certification automation, bare metal provisioning automation, domain specific automations, etc.
- Collaborates with peers to set standards for approved infrastructure deployments and integrations.
- Works with leadership to refine and effect current processes.
Experience of the right candidate:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering and/or related and/or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum five years of experience administrating, integrating and designing data center infrastructure solutions including server hardware, virtualization platforms, SAN switching, storage technologies, basic networking and Cloud Management Platforms.
- Minimum five years of experience designing both physical and virtual solutions for cloud architectures leveraging both blade and rack mount server platforms.
- Minimum two years of experience designing and engineering Software Defined Data Center solutions for workload optimization and placement.
- Experience with Cisco UCS B-Series infrastructure and UCS Manager.
- Understanding of Workflow Orchestration platforms, and Container technologies including Kubernetes and Docker.
- Proficient with BASH/Shell, Python, Ansible or similar scripting language.
- Understanding of infrastructure logging and monitoring solutions, for alerting and reporting.
- Experience with automated builds of new datacenter infrastructure deployments leveraging Workflow Automation platforms.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals
- Experience with Object Storage solutions.
- Certifications including Cisco CCNA Data Center, Linux Foundation Certified Engineer, Linux Foundation Kubernetes Administrator, VMWare VCP and NetApp Certified Data Administrator.