Desired Skills and Experience

  • Architect, design, recommend, develop, evaluate and implement technical systems infrastructure solutions to support development and deployment of advanced IP video technologies and services.
  • Provide hands-on systems level management and technical oversight for all systems supporting VIPER labs.
  • Oversee configuration and capacity management of infrastructure domains for lab environments.
  • Monitor and maintain large-scale fault tolerant and distributed virtual machine and container farms, supporting various advanced IP video engineering teams.
  • Development of tools and/or processes for monitoring and managing virtualization and containers based systems.
  • Design and implement reliable, scalable and versatile lab infrastructure.
  • Develop and deliver self-service resource provisioning, providing a consistent user experience for VIPER IP video engineering and development teams.
  • Collaborate, support and implement forward looking designs provided by Platform Infrastructure Engineering.
  • Support Platform CI/CD Development initiatives to assist in the deployment, research and augmentation of platform automation in order to remove manual operations.
  • Foster cross-functional knowledge sharing and mentoring amongst the various engineering teams.
  • Tests and certifies firmware and systems releases for core infrastructure components provided by vendors.
  • Standardization and execution of load, fault tolerance, longevity and stress testing of systems.

  • Operating Systems & Applications

      CentOS, CoreOS Linux
  Apache
  Git
  Bootstrap
  Jira & Confluence
  • CentOS, CoreOS Linux
  • Apache
  • Git
  • Bootstrap
  • Jira & Confluence

  • Virtualization Platforms

      VMware vSphere, vCenter, vCloud, vRA
  OpenStack
  Kubernetes & Docker
  • VMware vSphere, vCenter, vCloud, vRA
  • OpenStack
  • Kubernetes & Docker

  • Compute & Storage Platforms

      Cisco UCS
  Generic Compute
  Distributed Object Storage
  Cleversafe object storage
  NetApp storage solutions
  • Cisco UCS
  • Generic Compute
  • Distributed Object Storage
  • Cleversafe object storage
  • NetApp storage solutions
  • 6+ years of hands-on experience in systems administration and engineering.
  • Strong ability to prioritize, assign, track as needed for multiple projects.
  • 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.
  • Strong experience with Capacity Planning and Infrastructure Monitoring.
  • Experience Data Center Operations planning and driving efficiencies across the infrastructure.
  • Experience with developing 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.

  • Proficiency with the following:

      VMware 5/6, CoreOS/Docker/Kubernetes
  DNS, DHCP, PXE booting and Apache/HTTP
  Blade server architectures, Generic Compute Platforms
  NAS/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 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 knowledge of networking concepts (VLAN, TCP/IP, Multicast, Unicast, OSI).
  • 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.
  • Capable of supporting hundreds of systems both virtual and physical.
  • 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.