Desired Skills and Experience

  • Craft and continuously improve the lifecycle of services within the business, from inception through implementation.
  • Maintain live services through monitoring of key performance indicators and intrusion detection, and improve uptime by ensuring seamless updates and automating fault recovery.
  • Research and recommend innovative - and where possible automated - approaches for system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale.
  • Continuously learn and adapt to new technologies, infrastructure and frameworks to ensure seamless deployment and compliance with security standards.
  • Assist with the engineering of solutions for various project and operational needs, centered around the Uncharted private cloud and the Uncharted Amazon cloud, specifically:

OpenStack general purpose compute cloud Ceph general purpose storage Kubernetes/Docker application platforms Various AWS Services

  • OpenStack general purpose compute cloud
  • Ceph general purpose storage
  • Kubernetes/Docker application platforms
  • Various AWS Services
  • Collaboration and engineering of solutions for software developers, as a key DevOps partner and leader.
  • A university degree or college diploma in computer science or equivalent
  • 2-3 years experience working with and developing in a Linux environment. Expert knowledge of Bash (or similar) and common operating system services (systemd, BIND, NFS, virtualization, etc.) preferred.
  • Programming experience with the following: Bash; AWS, Google Cloud or Azure SDK’s; Chef/Puppet/Ansible; Python, Node.js or similar
  • Strong knowledge of web application architecture
  • Hands-on experience working with containerization technologies such as Docker/Swarm, Kubernetes, rkt, etc. considered an asset
  • Hands-on experience working with virtualization environments like OpenStack, oVirt/RHEV, Virtualbox, XenServer considered an asset

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