DevOps Engineer

Description

Position Description and Responsibilities To serve as a key contributor to support the infrastructure onpremises and cloud for the Discovery IT organization at Redwood City. The main function of the role is to support new technology initiatives and implement leadingedge technologies with best practices, including hybrid cloud technologies, AWScloud migrations, high density computing platform, software defined data center and scientific workflows for research applications.
Role Responsibilities
Provide systemlevel expertise on Linux operating systems such as RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, to enable Discovery IT operations at Redwood City, including Cloud integration. Provide support to research computing infrastructure as part of the team, involving servers, workstations, storage systems, networking, IaaS elements and applications.
Work with key clients in scientific research areas to deliver HPC services, system customization, performance tuning and optimization, proofofconcept prototyping and deliver new capabilities.
Position Requirements Must have 35 years of strong experience, or more, in supporting and managing Linux systems in professional environment(s). o Experience in handson and remote administration for x86_64 servers.
o Red Hat Linux or CentOS, including Xservers is a must.
o Experience in UNIX SHELL, Perl and Python is required
o Understanding of NAS protocols (SMB/CIFS and NFS) from both the server and the client ends.
o Must be able to program in a shell language; must be able to perform software compilation and installation activities.
o Must have proficient TCP/IP networking understanding
2 years of experience using AWS cloud services. Knowledge of EC2, EBS & S3 required. Familiarity with any RDS service preferred.
Ability to troubleshoot storage related issues on both Linux and Windows platforms, Macs optional
Ability to work both independently and as a contributor in a team environment
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
Strong oral and written communication skills
Desirable Experience in managing high performance compute infrastructure in the data center including high speed network switches, standalone servers, high density blade servers, NAS and object storage
Working knowledge of configuring systems environment for databases such as MySQL and Postgress
Experience supporting blocks based storage and Fibre Channel or iSCSI SAN switches, and familiarity with multipathing and other high availability configurations on server side
Working knowledge of virtualization technologies such as VMware
Working knowledge of Linux Containers such as Docker
Working knowledge of Backup technologies. Experience with the transfer of data to/from cloud offerings such as AWS S3