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Position Summary

The Container Infrastructure team provides compute and storage services for our private cloud Kubernetes (OpenShift) environment. The hypervisor lead engineer should have extensive experience designing, building, maintaining, and troubleshooting large, virtualized environments. A strong emphasis on leveraging automation tools in RedHat Enterprise Linux to build and maintain environments. The lead engineer should also have direct experience in configuring network and storage for an enterprise scaled environment.

Responsibilities and Essential Functions

• Partner with hardware vendors and value-added resellers to architect OpenStack environments to best practices
• Build new and reconfigure existing OpenStack environments to latest specifications
• Develop hardware and hypervisor Life Cycle Management processes
• Partner with application teams to provide performance optimization suggestions based on application testing
• Evaluate and deploy compute and hypervisor monitoring tools
• Partner with security stakeholders to define vulnerability management and compliance policies
• Identify OpenStack environment workload profiles and tune environment by workload types
• Utilize automation to administer compute and hypervisor environment
• Develop dashboards / reports to monitor the health of environment and communicate when changes are needed
• Leverage ITSM processes to identify and mitigate incident reoccurrence
• Lead Proof of Concepts (POCs) including working with application teams, consultant firms, and product vendors
• Provide knowledge transfer to team members
• Partner with application development and production support leaders as need
• Engage in capacity planning discussions, forecasts, solutions

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher preferred or equivalent work experience.

Position Qualifications

• 10 years of experience working in an environment supporting Redhat Enterprise Linux
• Experience with product / vendor relationships
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and relationship skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Demonstrated Teamwork behaviors
• Experience utilizing automation technologies
• Experience managing large and complex enterprise environments
• Experience migrating between major versions of OpenStack or from an alternative hypervisor
• At least 5 years of experience as a Linux administrator in an enterprise environment

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

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