Cloud Engineer

Summary about this job

Detail information about job Cloud Engineer. Terms and conditions vacancy

Role Highlights

• The most unique role that you have ever applied for.

• Collaborate with a team of like-minded technical professionals.

• Outstanding opportunity for career growth.

About Vault Cloud

Vault is one of the first cloud service providers globally to be certified by ASD at a 'protected' level. Vault is rapidly growing and is dedicated to providing sovereign, agile and hyper-scale cloud services to the Government and its partners. 

The Role

The purpose of this position is to play a hands-on role to ensure a smooth and continuous cloud operation at high performance and availability on an OpenStack platform.

A successful OpenStack Cloud Engineer needs to be innovative, detail-oriented, team-oriented, self-directed and adaptable to changing business requirements.

Job Tasks and Responsibilities

The duties and tasks are varied and complex needing independent judgement. Below you will find a list of some of the key duties and responsibilities:

• Evaluate service level issues and suggested enhancements escalated by support to diagnose and address underlying system problems and inefficiencies.

• Review and influence new and evolving design, architecture, standards, and methods for operating services and systems.

• Respond to and resolve emergent service problems; build tools and introduce automation to prevent problem recurrence.

• Participate in software and system performance analysis and tuning, service capacity planning and demand forecasting.

• Drive technical innovation and efficiency in infrastructure operations via automation – for example, automated server build processes.

• Development of new processes and involvement in project work.

• Report incidents to the security team.

Skills and Experience

Below is a list of the required experience, skills and qualifications that will allow you to be successful in this role.

Essential:

• Exposure to running OpenStack in production

• Working knowledge of Linux and KVM/QEMU (administration, networking, troubleshooting). Ubuntu/Debian experience is a plus.

• Experience in scripting and software development (Python, Bash).

• An understanding of the inner workings of the Ceph and Swift storage platforms.

• Ability to build and use virtual environments (e.g. using Vagrant) via CI and use them to automate tests for code changes and deployments. We test OpenStack on OpenStack.

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science (or related degree and experience).

Desirable:

• Automation with Ansible.

• Docker deployment.

• Windows administration, Powershell.

• System monitoring using Fluentd, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Prometheus, Cacti, Grafana, Nagios, Ceilometer, Ganglia.

• MySQL administration.

• Fortinet FortiOS, CoreOS, Brocade NOS, Cumulus Linux.

Other skills include:

• Ability to learn quickly and think ahead.

• Tackle problems with persistence and endurance until the correct solution is found.

• Ability to drill down on a problem yourself and solve bigger issues in a team.

• Data Centre work experience (DC work is only occasionally required).

• Good communication skills both written and verbal.

• Ability to think strategically and execute quality output.

• Strong time-management skills.

• Hard working and passionate about career and making a difference.