Information Systems Engineer (OpenStack)

TL;DR

Information Systems Engineer (OpenStack): Deploying, managing, and operating OpenStack-based private cloud platforms across EMEA with an accent on automation, scalability, reliability, and performance. Focus on installing and configuring Linux servers, handling incidents and escalations, and performing production changes and upgrades.

Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany (Hybrid)

Company

hirify.global secures people, devices, and data worldwide through its Security Fabric platform, trusted by over 615,000 customers including largest enterprises, service providers, and governments.

What you will do

• Manage multiple production OpenStack private cloud infrastructures in EMEA, developing and deploying new platforms.
• Handle incidents and technical escalations via conference calls, coordination, troubleshooting, and analysis.
• Install, configure, automate, and patch hundreds of Linux servers using git/ansible.
• Perform EMEA systems installation from physical server planning to host installation and tuning.
• Collaborate with remote teammates and field engineers in datacentres.
• Participate in change management, on-call 24/7 support, and document procedures/scripts in wiki/repos.

Requirements

• Around 5 years of experience with production platforms
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering or related field
• Advanced experience in Linux based systems (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu)
• Experience in OpenStack administration
• Experience in at least one scripting language (Ansible, Python, Bash) and git
• Experience in change management process, Jira
• Good knowledge of English (written and spoken)
• Strong organizational, multitasking, and teamwork skills

Nice to have

• Docker/Kubernetes, container orchestration experience
• Datacentre operations knowledge
• System logging like ELK
• Network, server, and system monitoring (Zabbix, Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana)
• RedHat Certification
• ITIL Certification
• Knowledge in software defined storage and network