Senior Systems Engineer

DevOps

Ułańska 1, Poznań

Avenga

Undetermined

B2B

Senior

Remote

Net per month - B2B

Tech stack

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Job profile: On-premises infrastructure / private cloud - 100% remote,
Currently Poland, with potential to extend to other European countries

Design and engineer all parts of an on-premises HPC installation (computational cluster) – starting with networking, hypervisor setup, Operating System image creation, storage, VM provisioning, software stack deployment etc.
All above shall be delivered as a code snippets (Terraform, Ansible, Bash, Python) that can be used in a larger, automated workflow in order to build easily scalable systems
Engineer code-based solutions for “Day 2 operations” e.g. automatically deploy/remove/replace VMs, upgrade/rebuild OS, add/remove software stack items, upgrade software stack
Build monitoring and alerting around the running infrastructure
Write code to integrate solutions into seamless workflows - CI/CD and (potentially) workflow systems
Work with cluster engineers and software developers to fine-tune and improve the infrastructure and tools used to build and manage it
Proactively look for ways and solutions to improve effectiveness of your own work
Deliver solutions with integrated "safety switches" to reduce risk of human error, provide traceability and roll back capabilities and reduce IT security risk (AKA shift left security)
Tasks assignment and tracking - JIRA
Write documentation in Atlassian Confluence - we need to document our work to submit it for approval and to be able to turn our deliverables into "live" systems.
No on-call duties, no work on tickets, no weekend work

On-premises IT Infrastructure:

Bare metal servers with VMs
VMWare ESXi Hypervisor o (nice to have) Open Source Hypervisors e.g. KVM, QEMU, Xen, Proxmox
(nice to have) Experience with private cloud e.g. OpenStack
(nice to have) Experience with High Performance Computing
(nice to have) Experience with SAN/NAS storage systems
(nice to have) Experience with Open Compute platform

Operating systems:

Infrastructure as Code:

Ansible
Terraform – candidates who have no experience, but show potential to learn fast are also welcome

Networks:

Containers:

Automation and other tools:

Ideal candidate's profile:

Experience with on-premises systems engineering – Senior – 7+
Experience with cloud – Junior/Regular – 3 years of experience
Able to work autonomously for most of the day, creating solutions (code) that are part of a larger project
Able to not only follow proposed design but also to present options, optimize and improve -
Fluency in automation of tasks – CI/CD and workflow management systems
Self-learner eager to do deep dives into unknown areas of technology
Able to document his work pre and post implementation, create high level diagrams
B2 - C1 English