Data Center Deployment engineer

We are looking for an experienced deployment engineer to join the HPIL team to accelerate cloud hardware deployments, automate infrastructure, and improve hardware deployment lifecycle efficiency.

This role is best suited for someone who has hands-on technical experience in datacenter and cloud technologies and has successfully deployed large scale infrastructure solutions. The successful candidate will also be eager to take advantage of opportunities to improve process through automation and implementation of AI/ML solutions to deliver E2E capacity as quickly as possible to improve customer experience.

Core Responsibilities
Bare Metal Hardware Deployments
Hardware Implementation Designs of physical infrastructure across global data centers
Provision and bootstrap servers using PXE, iPXE, HTTP netboot, DHCP, and TFTP
Integrate compute, storage, and networking components into private cloud platforms (CCP OpenStack, CCP Containers, RDEI)
Implement 3rd Party Vendor Hardware Lifecycle Improvement Assessment/Audit Findings
Analyze and apply recommendations to improve lifecycle and reduce time-to-capacity
Collaborate w/cross-functional teams to streamline procurement-to-deployment workflows
Drive improvements in asset tracking, validation, and deployment metrics
Automation
Automate hardware lifecycle and deployment improvement findings
Develop and integrate playbooks with existing automation further standardize deployments
Create training materials and documentation to scale knowledge across team

Skills and Experience
Bare Metal Provisioning
Bare Metal Provisioning/Bootstrapping: Vaquero, Foreman, Tinkerbell, RackN Digital Rebar, Ansible, Kickstart and other technologies such as PXE, iPXE, DHCP
Working knowledge of hardware platforms (Dell, Cisco, HP)
Very familiar with out-of-band/lights-out server communication methods, such as IPMI, IDRAC, CIMC, iLO and serial console
Strong experience and understanding of Linux (CentOS/RHEL, Debian, CoreOS/Flatcar )
Solid networking fundamentals (Layer 1, 2, and 3)

Datacenter
Demonstrated knowledge of DCIM tools such as DCTrack and Netbox and/or other tools
Working knowledge of fiber optics, structured cabling installation, and overall inside plant cabling (ISP) technologies
Basic understanding of Datacenter Rack/Stack/Power methodologies

Scripting-Automation
Experienced scripting in Ansible, Python, Go, shell and/or other language
Proficient with Containers and Kubernetes
Working knowledge of GIT, and CI/CD tools like Concourse and data visualization tools like Kibana

Desired Qualifications
4+ years Linux System Administration
4+ years experience object-oriented Python, software development or relevant scripting languages
4+ years experience writing Ansible automation scripts
Experience delivering projects Agile or other iterative methodologies
Any Arista, Cisco or Datacenter Certifications
Knowledge of VMware and ESXi hypervisor
Collaboration Tools: Proficient in GitHub, Jira, SharePoint, Wiki