Senior DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer

Sustainable Talent is partnering with Nvidia a global leader who's been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for over 25 years.  We are looking for a Senior DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer, Enterprise Systems to support our client's IPP's (Infrastructure, Planning and Process) Team.

This is a W-2 full-time contract based in Santa Clara, CA. We offer competitive pay $60-$70/hr based on factors like experience, education, location, etc. and provide full benefits, PTO, and amazing company culture!

IPP is a global organization within NVIDIA. This group works with various other groups within NVIDIA such as Graphics Processors, Mobile Processors, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Driverless Cars to cater to their infrastructure needs. These cloud services provide almost half a million automated jobs per day on thousands of servers helping with the productivity of thousands of NVIDIA's software engineers worldwide. The cloud hosts a heterogeneous mix of machines and devices with various operating systems (Windows/Linux/Android), a multitude of hardware platforms both NVIDIA GPUs and Tegra Processors. Are you passionate about distributed infrastructure and looking for sophisticated, critical issues, ready to build the next generation of cloud services, design creative solutions, mine through data to uncover real problems and fix them? We are excited to onboard a fun-loving person like you.

What you'll be doing

• Support OpenStack Team Operations queue working within our Infrastructure and Cloud Operations Environments.
• Support Cloud based operations, monitoring, troubleshooting and assisting triage and resolution of bugs, KPI investigations related to systems .
• Work closely with world-class SRE, PaaS and Infrastructure engineers, architects, technical product managers and application developers setting the best strategies in place for a product launch.
• Solve sophisticated problems involving multi-site OpenStack deployments supporting NVIDIA products.
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams, including system engineering, software engineering, mechanical/thermal engineering, operations, data center teams, external vendors, and other partners to successfully deliver a reliable and robust platform from concept to prototype to deployments.
• Directly contribute to the overall quality of deployments and improve time to market next gen products.

What we need to see

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of relevant experience.
• Thorough understanding of the PXE process, including host configuration (BIOS and network card), general network configurations such as VLANs, switch port settings, and cabling.
• Knowledge of services involved in PXE booting, such as DHCP (DNSMASK), TFTP, HTTP, and ISCSI, essential for troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with OpenStack services and their interactions, including nova, nova placement, Neutron, Glance, Cinder, and Ironic.
• Ability to troubleshoot across different OpenStack applications, comprehend the OpenStack deployment process, and understand service dependencies and order of operations.
• Proficiency in reading and writing Python code.
• Expertise in supporting third-party services like MySQL, RabbitMQ, CEPH, HaProxy, and Keepalived.
• Ability to use tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, and Elastic Search for successful system configuration and maintenance.

Ways to stand out from the crowd

• Experience in large scale QA environments, for product bring ups.
• Operations Support managing Bug Queues and Support Tickets
• Strong Network and Troubleshooting skills
• Background with Linux, RHEL, Anisible, Bash and Python.
• Familiarity with Jenkins, Ansible and REST APIs.
• Experience with openstack Ironic and Baremetal provisioning 

Sustainable Talent is a M/F , disabled, and veteran equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer.