HP posted a job you might be interested in November 19, 2014 at 07:35PM

HP



Senior Openstack Operations Engineer

San Francisco Bay Area, US - Computer Software

THE ROLE



HP has been a consistent leader in defining the next generation computing platforms, and we are doing this again with #HPHelion and the next-generation open source computing platform. More than 2,000 enterprise customers and 37% of the Fortune 100 use our cloud solutions today and serve as the foundation for HP Helion. HP is the #1 private cloud provider in the world. We are a leader in OpenStack and Cloud Foundry foundations and communities. HP is committed to investing billions of dollars in HP Helion products, services, technologies and programs, and the global reach of HP Helion, over the next three years.



Do you:

• Love solving hard problems having to do with things like scale, performance and availability?

• Have passion about designing and building elegant, innovative solutions, and are excited about working in the Openstack cloud computing space?

• Thrive on conquering big challenges through innovation and execution and feel ready to contribute in huge ways with a top-notch team to create disruptive products that has a positive impact on all who use it?

We are looking for talented and keen technologists to join our Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Openstack technical operations team to build the next-generation OpenStack cloud computing platform. You'll be taking on an eclectic mixture of tasks, software, and systems – all while wearing several hats – and will be helping to design, build, and maintain the core OpenStack IaaS services in a highly complex and massive scale platform.

If you are passionate about open source software, agile practices, and "DevOps" values, this could be the perfect ‘next-step’ for your career!

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES



As a Senior OpenStack Operations Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

• Top-Tier OpenStack System Administration: operation, maintenance, and support of the high-availability services platforms (Nova, Swift, Cinder, Neutron, Glance, etc.) located in remote Data Centers across multiple time zones.

• Support the Cloud Operations team’s activities including monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, capacity management, and provisioning.

• Maintaining and troubleshooting in-house and 3rd party software, working with both internal/external groups to ensure our stack is effectively integrated, configured, managed, and supported in production.

• Liaising between different teams to help understand cross-functional requirements and contribute to discussions and planning as required to change those goals into reality.

• Completing tasks assigned by manager on schedule, communicating progress regularly.

• Authoring and updating high-quality documentation of all relevant specifications, systems and procedures.

• May require evening and weekend work as needed to support business. On-call is possible.

Qualifications

• Able to perform assigned technical responsibilities independently to completion.


• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a role with responsibility for operating Linux systems at scale. Common System Administration duties including installation, maintenance, tuning, security, and high availability configuration.


• Expert troubleshooting skills. A focus on critical thinking. Ability to isolate faults at all levels of a complex technical stack, from hardware to end user experience.


• Strong virtualization knowledge; QEMU/KVM preferred. Familiarity with cloud computing concepts.


• Demonstrable requisite knowledge to manage Storage, Network, and Server equipment, including, but not limited to, iSCSI, RAID, VLANs, IPv4 subnetting, NIC Bonding.


• Solid knowledge of technical operations procedures and best practices is essential; ITIL exposure is a plus.


• Experience working customer facing issues in high-pressure situations.


• Experience with infrastructure automation (Chef, CFEngine, Puppet, etc)


• Strong familiarity with scripting languages including shell.


• Brownie points for any one or combination of the following:
  
  
  
  • Prior OpenStack experience or knowledge.
  
  
  • Python experience.
  
  
  • Knowledge of Linux system calls and kernel tuning.
  
  
  • Experience with RESTful APIs.
  
  
  • IPv6 knowledge.
  
  
  
  

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