Storage/Cloud Engineer

Duration: 1 year
Contract: 100% remote with limited travel (travel is paid for by client)
Bentonville, Arkansas

Job Description
need of 2 Sr. Storage/Cloud Engineers with strong Ceph experience(IBM SAN product) This is fully remote with some limited travel to Arkansas. This is supporting a large initiative that has support large retailer based in Bentonville, Arkansas. Multiple years of experience supporting large scale, highly available, production Cloud Storage deployments with Ceph
• Experience with Linux Administration and System Troubleshooting.
• Strong familiarity with OpenStack or Kubernetes or Rook with Ceph as an underlying storage solution.
• Experience in programming, scripting and development:
o Python or Shell Scripting
• Networking concepts and administration:
o TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, Load balancing.
• Experience using source control systems (git)
• Experience in configuration management tools like Ansible/Puppet/Chef
• Experience with Containers (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
• Experience in Architecting infra solutions for applications.
• Experience with monitoring, reporting tools and data analytics.
• Good understanding of clustered/distributed systems
• Apply best practice and team standards while meeting service level objectives.
• Experience working with cloud deployments (scaling, resiliency, load balancing etc.) and solid understanding of Service Monitoring, KPI, SLA, Disaster Recovery
• Deep experience with the Linux ecosystem, automation of common tasks, and configuration of systems monitoring tools.
• Experience with capacity/performance management, monitoring, and tuning.
• Experience with firewalls, VPN, routing, switching, load balancers, monitoring, security, and DNS.
• Knowledge of systems management concepts, processes, and standards
• Strong interpersonal skills to coordinate with other organizations across the business while managing customer expectations.

Additional Skills & Qualifications
• Design, implement, communicate, evangelize, advocate for, optimize and document private cloud-based Cloud Storage solutions using Ceph.
• Build, tune, troubleshoot block and object storage systems in high availability Ceph storage clusters.
• Design automation for storage optimization and other processes on private cloud platforms.
• Drive significant architectural decisions about the next iterations of our Private Cloud infrastructure that will improve efficiency and reduce Cloud Storage spend.
• Enable Application teams to follow best practices to deploy on Cloud Platforms and optimize Storage spend and improve efficiency and performance based on utilization with Ceph
• Participate in a 12x7 on-call rotation.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for operational readiness.
• Design and maintain cloud storage best practices.
• Become a solid contributor on our team, and build, extend and maintain some of the key infrastructure that powers our Private Cloud platform.
• Provide troubleshooting expertise for storage performance and other issues.
• Train and educate others within Technology about Cloud technologies.
• Develop and integrate provisioning and lifecycle tools for storage services components.
• Contribute to an environment that promotes and reinforces the highest standards of integrity andethics.
• Demonstrates creativity and strength in the face of change, obstacles, or adversity.
• Adapt to competing demands and shifting priorities.