Senior Systems Engineer

DevOps

Senior Systems Engineer

DevOps

Ułańska 1, Poznań

Avenga

Undetermined
B2B
Senior
Remote
7 458 - 7 691 USD
Net per month - B2B

Tech stack

    VMWare ESXi Hypervisor

    regular

    Terraform

    regular

    Ansible

    regular

    Bash

    regular

    Python

    regular

    CI/CD

    regular

    Jira

    regular

    Linux

    regular

    Cloud

    regular

Job description

 
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: 
  • Ubuntu Linux (or any from Debian Linux family) – preferred 
  • (nice to have) Red Hat Linux 

Infrastructure as Code: 
  • Ansible 
  • Terraform – candidates who have no experience, but show potential to learn fast are also welcome  

Networks:
  • Solid understanding of Ethernet, VLANs, IPv4/IPv6, ARP, DHCP, DNS, TCP and UDP 
  • (nice to have) Public cloud 
  • Azure o Google Cloud Platform
 
Containers: 
  • (nice to have) Kubernetes clusters 

Automation and other tools: 
  • HashiCorp Packer 
  • Shell scripting - Bash 
  • CI/CD - Azure DevOps or similar (e.g. Jenkins) 
  • GitHub, JIRA & Confluence (or similar) 
  • (nice to have) Python 
  • (nice to have) Prometheus/Grafana -
  • (nice to have) GitOps - Argocd or similar -
  • (nice to have) Helm

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 
Published: 24.07.2021
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