Job Description
*Remote / Virtual Opportunity
Have you ever wondered what it takes to run a cloud infrastructure at scale? Do you enjoy a challenge and improving services already at scale? Our team of engineers at Virtustream work to design, build and operate a infrastructure-as-a-service cloud for some of the biggest companies in the world. The platform team is looking for individuals with a diverse set of experience and skills to design, build and operate solutions needed for the exciting new Virtustream Cloud. As a platform SRE you will develop extensible services and platforms that provide service insight, automated remediation, and service management at scale needed to maintain high service reliability with low touch.
Requirements
Responsibilities include:
Design, build, and operate a global compute platform and related services
Develop solutions for service monitoring, automated remediation, measuring availability and reliability, performance, analytics and security
Design services and libraries on top of traditional VMware environments.
Maintaining environment state with the use of configuration tools and event driven automation
Participate in collaborative projects with software engineering teams
Advise management on service onboarding strategies and execution
Participate in troubleshooting, capacity planning and analysis, performance analysis activities.
Part of a 24x7 service watch rotation team.
Requirements:
Experience engineering, operating, troubleshooting, administering and scaling platform services with code
Production experience using configuration management tools (eg Ansible, Saltstack, Puppet, Chef)
Proficiency implementing and maintaining continuous integration and delivery workflows.
Operational experience with datacenter storage platforms (eg vSAN, Ceph, fibre channel, iSCSI, NFS)
Experience supporting and troubleshooting production virtualization environments at scale
Experience managing Unix/Linux systems in production
A tenacious ability to diagnose and fix performance and reliability problems.
Preferred skills:
Experience in VMware products, specifically cloud related solutions such as: vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, vSAN, NSX or contending cloud solutions and products.
Understanding of Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond, taking in system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols
Experience with backup and disaster recovery services such as VMware SRM
3+ year Experience as DevOps, Operations Engineer, or SRE (development for large online services)
3+ year Experience building and operating highly available and scalable infrastructure solutions
Experience working in distributed, remote teams across multiple time zones a plus
Ability to travel for team meetings.
Company offers
40 hours per week Standard
Pleasant and family friendly working environment
All social security paid
Long term continuous project work
Excellent career and development opportunities in a global environment
Professional IT training
Competitive life + health insurance
Annual performance related bonus scheme
Casual dress code
Challenging work
Flexible working hours
Free snacks and drinks, Xbox, TV, table foosball
We cover 50 % of your gym at “Impuls” membership
Social gatherings, parties and teambuilding events.
