Devops Engineer

Role & responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable and reliable VMware, Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, and IBM) and Kubernetes environments.
• Design, develop, and implement on-prem Openstack/VMware/Kubernetes solutions tailored to the specific needs of our organization.
• Collaborate with business unit owners to gather requirements and translate them into scalable OpenStack and VMware (Kubernetes architecture standard).
• Implement automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines) to streamline Infrastructure operations and enable self-service workloads(VMs/Pods) lifecycle management for developers.
• Design and implement observability best practices for OpenStack/VMware/Kubernetes.
• Provide expertise and best practices for DevOps methodologies to support continuous improvement.
• Contribute to the deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting of OpenStack/VMware/Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Investigate and recommend enhancements to optimize the efficiency and reliability of the OpenStack/VMware/Kubernetes environment
• Develop and maintain documentation related to the OpenStack/VMware/Kubernetes private cloud architecture.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and best practices in the Openstack/VMware/Kubernetes ecosystem.
• Identify and resolve complex technical issues and provide timely solutions.
• Providing infrastructure support for AWS/Azure.

Preferred candidate profile

• 5+ years of experience in managing and automating large-scale VMware, OpenStack, and or Kubernetes environments.
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles and practices, including experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet.
• Proficient in programming languages such as Python, Java, and GO.
• Demonstrated experience in implementing robust solutions for observability and reliability of VMware/OpenStack/Kubernetes environments.
• Familiarity with Observability tools such as Elastic Enterprise, Prometheus, Grafana, Logstash, Fluent-bit or Fluentd.
• Familiarity with Linux, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP.
• Proven work experience as an OpenStack/VMware/Kubernetes Engineer or similar role for a minimum of 5 years.
• Have recent OpenStack/VMware/Kubernetes experience. For OpenStack, have experience with at least OpenStack Yoga. For Kubernetes, have experience running enterprise Kubernetes clusters on bare metal.
• Expertise in OpenStack components such as Nova, Neutron (OpenvSwitch), Cinder (SAN), Glance, and Keystone.
• Proficiency in virtualization technologies (KVM, VMware, Kubevirt, etc. ) and networking infrastructure concepts.
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc. ) is a plus.
• Experience with providing infrastructure support and automation solutions for one of the following public clouds: AWS/Azure/GCP.