Site Reliability Engineer III with OpenStack Experience

Title: Site Reliability Engineer III

Location: Washington, DC, Maryland OR Virginia
Duration: 12 Months

Site Reliability Engineer III We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer III to join a team that is responsible for building, managing, and maintaining the Verisign private cloud platform on which our mission-critical services depend.

We prize operations professionals who are equipped with great technical skills, experience, and a self-starting attitude. We seek individuals with a strong sense of responsibility; individuals who are curious, demonstrate initiative, and love solving problems.

Our platform and our team: Our platform is centered around OpenStack and other open-source software such as Jenkins, Ansible, and git, running on Redhat Enterprise Linux. Our platform is tightly integrated with the rest of the company’s infrastructure services and serves as the company’s private cloud computing and storage infrastructure.

The team is responsible for the provisioning and administration of the platform, with a strong focus on operational disciplines and security practices.

Job responsibilities:

• Build, operate, and maintain our on-prem OpenStack platform

• Monitor and resolve alerts of the platform

• Troubleshoot platform and user problems

• Document problem-solving steps

• Ensure compliance with vulnerability management standards and information security standards, and support regular patching of the platform elements

• Participate in on-call rotation for tier 3 support

Desired Skills, Experience, and Attributes:

• An ideal candidate will have a blend of technical skills, a desire to work as part of a team to grow themselves and those around them, and will have:

• Experience with OpenStack configuration and administration

• Experience working as a Linux system admin in a large-scale environment

• Experience using shell scripting, Python, Ansible

• Experience maintaining highly available services

• General understanding of network protocols and security best practice of Client

• Fluency with development tools and processes such as GitHub, Jira

• Written and verbal communication skills – ability to clearly and succinctly describe complex issues

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Prior experience developing or operating an OpenStack platform in a production environment
• 5+ years of relevant industry experience

Regards,

Nick Arthur (Nizam)

Associate Director, Recruitment

Pull Skill Technologies Inc.

Direct: +1 551-272-o197