Desired Skills and Experience

  • Design, manage and develop our OpenStack cloud platform
  • Automate at all levels, from bare metal through to application management
  • Keep track of everything through good monitoring, alerting and trending
  • Evaluate and commission software and hardware, e.g. SDN, SDS and OpenStack components such as Designate and Kolla
  • Offer new ideas to improve our processes and architecture
  • Join the on-call rotation and help solve emergencies should they arise
  • Several years of experience managing distributed systems with Linux
  • Monitoring and trending experience, e.g. with Prometheus and Grafana
  • Experience of configuration management, e.g. with Ansible
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to stay calm while solving critical incidents
  • Bonus: Experience with software-defined storage and/or software-defined networking e.g. Open vSwitch or CEPH
  • Bonus: Experience with Kubernetes and/or Docker