Senior Cloud Engineer LW

About the position

Work tightly with our customers to understand, capture, and deliver against their requirements.



Design and build distributed systems.



Ability to work with the Operator Framework.



Having an interest in diving into OpenShift and ODF (OpenShift Data Foundation).



Work with your fellow engineers and the community to serve our customers.



Support the requests of the Production and Development Teams to solve any problems related to the container platforms.



Develop and oversee the backup, replication and disaster recovery strategies.



Maintain documentation for procedures, configurations and programs.



Ensure systems adhere to NIST and Departmental standards.



Develop automation scripts using Ansible or equivalent.



Maintain software repositories and apply software updates.



Install, configure and maintain the OpenShift environment.



Maintain/Monitor (i.e. Prometheus) the health of the systems through both automated and manual processes.



Linux integration with other environments (authentication/directory services, network file systems, etc.)



Cloud computing in general (provisioning, monitoring, orchestration, etc.)



Understand OS and Application-level issues and advise on next steps.



Ability to communicate clearly and set the right expectations with all stakeholders.



Applicable understanding of Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes.



Understand infrastructure as code and the typical toolchains for implementing and maintaining these practices.


Minimum Requirements:

Knowledge:



Degree in Computer Science, business or a closely related area (BS in CS or EE, or equivalent) or relevant experience.



Ability to make decisions to technically resolve business requirements.



Minimum 3+ years hands-on experience supporting Cloud technologies and Linux systems, including:



Container technologies: Docker, Podman, Crio, Containers.



Container orchestration: Kubernetes, OpenShift; Storage technologies - block, object.



Integration with other environments (authentication/directory services, network file systems, etc.).



Troubleshooting experience:

• Programming fundamentals in any language.

• Understanding Linux troubleshooting and, permission SELinux.

 



Customer support experience:

• Customer needs are the top priority.


• Communicate clearly and set the right expectations.


• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) (Advantageous).


• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (Advantageous).


• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) (Advantageous).


• Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) (Advantageous).

Desired Skills:

• Container technologies
• Container orchestration
• Troubleshooting experience