Cloud Systems Engineer 3

Company DescriptionArtech is the 10th Largest IT Staffing Company in the US, according to Staffing Industry Analysts' 2012 annual report. Artech provides technical expertise to fill gaps in clients' immediate skill-sets availability, deliver emerging technology skill-sets, refresh existing skill base, allow for flexibility in project planning and execution phases, and provide budgeting/financial flexibility by offering contingent labor as a variable cost.Job DescriptionResponsibilities:Design, recommend, develop, evaluate and implement automation of technical systems infrastructure solutions to support development and deployment of advanced IP video technologies and services.Provide systems level configuration management via industry standard tools such as puppet.Lead configuration management of infrastructure domains.Design and maintain automation and configuration management for large-scale fault tolerant and distributed virtual machine and container farms supporting various advanced IP video engineering teams.Engineer automated deployment and support management solutions for UCS and VMWare systems in lab and production environments.Engineer automated deployment and support management solutions for generic compute and kubernetes systems in lab and production environments.Development of tools and processes for configuring and managing Linux and VMware based servers.Development of tools and processes for configuring and managing Linux based containers.Here are some of the specific technologies we use within VIPER systems infrastructure engineering:PuppetPythonGitESXiVMWarevCentervCloudCentosCoreOSKubernetesCisco UCSGeneric Compute PlatformsDistributed object storageNetApp storage solutionsCleversafe object storage solutionsSkills & RequirementsAt least 6 years of experience installing, configuring and managing linux based systems and applications via automation and configuration management tools such as puppet.Experience with a variety of unix/linux scripting languages including python, perl, bashExperienced with DNS, DHCP, PXE and Apache/ with blade server architectures and generic compute platformsWorking knowledge of VMWare 5/6Working knowledge of CoreOS/Docker/KubernetesWorking knowledge of OpenstackExperienced with NAS/NFS/Object storage technologiesWorking knowledge of networking concepts (VLAN, TCP/IP, Multicast, Unicast, OSI)Understanding on how to scale systems depending on loadProficiency with working knowledge of data center operationsGood communicator and able to clearly articulate complex issues and technologiesAbility to propose systems design improvementsHigh attention to detail and strong ability to problem solve systems issuesWilling to take ownership of problems and see them through to resolutionComfortable working in a fast paced agile environment. Requirements change quickly and our team needs to constantly adapt to moving targets.Additional InformationFor more information, Please contactSiva Kumar973-507-7543SummaryType: ContractFunction: Information TechnologyExperience level: Mid-Senior LevelIndustry: Information Technology And Services