Cloud Systems Engineer 3

Artech is the 10th Largest IT Staffing Company in the US, according to Staffing Industry Analysts' 2012 annual report. Artech provides technical expertise to fill gaps in clients' immediate skill-sets availability, deliver emerging technology skill-sets, refresh existing skill base, allow for flexibility in project planning and execution phases, and provide budgeting/financial flexibility by offering contingent labor as a variable cost.

Responsibilities:

Design, recommend, develop, evaluate and implement automation of technical systems infrastructure solutions to support development and deployment of advanced IP video technologies and services.

Provide systems level configuration management via industry standard tools such as puppet.

Lead configuration management of infrastructure domains.

Design and maintain automation and configuration management for large-scale fault tolerant and distributed virtual machine and container farms supporting various advanced IP video engineering teams.

Engineer automated deployment and support management solutions for UCS and VMWare systems in lab and production environments.

Engineer automated deployment and support management solutions for generic compute and kubernetes systems in lab and production environments.

Development of tools and processes for configuring and managing Linux and VMware based servers.

Development of tools and processes for configuring and managing Linux based containers.Here are some of the specific technologies we use within VIPER systems infrastructure engineering:

Puppet

Python

Git

ESXi

VMWare

vCenter

vCloud

Centos

CoreOS

Kubernetes

Cisco UCS

Generic Compute Platforms

Distributed object storage

NetApp storage solutions

Cleversafe object storage solutionsSkills & Requirements

At least 6 years of experience installing, configuring and managing linux based systems and applications via automation and configuration management tools such as puppet.

Experience with a variety of unix/linux scripting languages including python, perl, bash

Experienced with DNS, DHCP, PXE and Apache/HTTP

Experience with blade server architectures and generic compute platforms

Working knowledge of VMWare 5/6

Working knowledge of CoreOS/Docker/Kubernetes

Working knowledge of Openstack

Experienced with NAS/NFS/Object storage technologies

Working knowledge of networking concepts (VLAN, TCP/IP, Multicast, Unicast, OSI)

Understanding on how to scale systems depending on load

Proficiency with working knowledge of data center operations

Good communicator and able to clearly articulate complex issues and technologies

Ability to propose systems design improvements

High attention to detail and strong ability to problem solve systems issues

Willing to take ownership of problems and see them through to resolution

Comfortable working in a fast paced agile environment. Requirements change quickly and our team needs to constantly adapt to moving targets.

For more information, Please contact

Siva Kumar

973-507-7543