Desired Skills and Experience
- Architect, design, recommend, develop, evaluate and implements technical systems infrastructure solutions to support development and deployment of advanced IP video technologies and services.
- Support Platform CI/CD Development initiatives to assist in the deployment, research and augmentation of platform automation in order to remove manual operations.
- Collaborates with and obtains buy-in from peers and leadership for technical standards and innovation.
- Assume the role of an infrastructure subject matter expert within multiple cross-functional service teams.
- Represents the platform infrastructure team on projects and performs the role of team resource and/or lead as appropriate.
- Ability to convey advanced technical information to team members, along with the ability to communicate technical information in general terms that users can understand.
- Develop and deliver self-service resource provisioning, providing a consistent user experience for VIPER IP video engineering and development teams.
- Regularly creates and maintains system documentation, procedures, diagrams, and standards
- Perform advanced systems engineering related designs, upgrades, conversions, and troubleshooting.
- Lead configuration management for multiple infrastructure domains.
- Standardization and execution of load, fault tolerance, longevity and stress testing of systems.
- Certify new technologies for use in the lab and production environments.
- Fulfill the role of Tier 3 and above for escalated production service support.
- Willing to continuously learn and keep current on industry standards, emerging technologies, and services for the development of infrastructure roadmaps.
- Operating Systems & ApplicationsCentOS, CoreOS LinuxApacheGitBootstrapJira & Confluence
- CentOS, CoreOS Linux
- Apache
- Git
- Bootstrap
- Jira & Confluence
- Virtualization PlatformsVMware vSphere, vCenter, vCloud, vRAOpenStackKubernetes & Docker
- VMware vSphere, vCenter, vCloud, vRA
- OpenStack
- Kubernetes & Docker
- Compute & Storage PlatformsCisco UCSGeneric ComputeDistributed Object StorageCleversafe Object StorageNetApp storage solutions
- Cisco UCS
- Generic Compute
- Distributed Object Storage
- Cleversafe Object Storage
- NetApp storage solutions
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in systems administration and engineering.
- Minimum 3+ years of experience in managing large scale distributed infrastructure and converged platforms.
- Strong experience gathering requirements and supporting advanced software development teams in an agile environment.
- Strong ability to collaborate with peers and stakeholders around system designs, capacity, road maps and resource allocation.
- Quick grasp of strategic and tactical requirements with the ability to propose creative and effective solutions.
- Experience with developing and enforcing standards and best practices in managing large scale cloud infrastructure.
- Strong experience with infrastructure sizing and scaling dependent upon application load and demand.
- Highly proficient in managing Linux based systems and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with a variety of Unix/Linux automation and scripting languages such as Python, BASH, Puppet.
- High availability experience including clustering, load balancing (F5 LTM and GTM, IPVS).
- Deep understanding of mid and high range storage solutions such as NetApp (7-mode and Cluster Mode).
- Proficiency with the following:VMware 5/6, CoreOS/Docker/KubernetesDNS, DHCP, PXE booting and Apache/HTTPBlade server architectures, Generic Compute PlatformsNAS/NFS/Object storage technologies
- VMware 5/6, CoreOS/Docker/Kubernetes
- DNS, DHCP, PXE booting and Apache/HTTP
- Blade server architectures, Generic Compute Platforms
- NAS/NFS/Object storage technologies
- Experience with distributed and scaled systems architectures.
- Advanced networking experience including VLANs, LACP, vPC/MLAG, TCP/IP, Multicast, Unicast, spanning tree.
- Experience with OpenStack Cloud Computing.
- Experience with CI/CD methodologies.
- Experience with large scale infrastructure automation.
- Experience with distributed system architectures.
- Knowledge of Hyper-converged and Immutable Infrastructure.
- Strong communicator and able to clearly articulate complex issues and technologies.
- Ability to propose systems design and configuration improvements.
- Must be able to work independently, be self-motivated and handle multiple priorities.
- Ability to plan, organize and document complex system designs.
- High attention to detail and strong ability to problem solve systems issues.
- Willing to take ownership of problems and see them through to resolution for all escalations for systems infrastructure related issues.
- Comfortable working in a fast paced agile environment. Requirements change quickly and our team needs to constantly adapt to moving targets.
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