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Title: Software Engineer (Private Cloud / Virtualization)
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Duration: 6 months
Who we are Today s challenging business environment is more than that it s a period of disruption between the pandemic, global business change and internal process complexity. For us to focus on simplicity and the best customer experience, we need great talent and the right skillsets to be successful. This is now a mantra for our Cisco leadership team and for us. Cisco is transforming its platforms to run the next generation of cloud-native and multi-cloud services. This role offers a superb opportunity to transform how infrastructure platforms are developed and managed with full software automation. This team is responsible for building, deploying and managing a large enterprise grade private cloud infrastructure within Cisco data center, which caters to Cisco s Business Critical applications available both internally and externally. The platform provides a very close public cloud experience to Cisco employees and at the same time is highly available with self-healing, full lifecycle monitoring, and management capabilities. Who you will work with You will be working within the Cloud Infrastructure Engineering team that designs and develops Hybrid-Cloud compute platforms and capabilities that are crucial to keeping Ciscos critical business applications and processes available. What you ll Do You will be a member of a software engineering team that develops tools and integrations for a portfolio of cloud infrastructure services supporting Cisco s critical business operations. As a Systems Software (Private Cloud / Virtualization) Engineer with extensive experience in enterprise-level private cloud setups, you will join a dynamic and agile team of talented engineers focused on developing and deploying platform automation and tools for on-premises (OpenStack/BareMetal) cloud infrastructure. Proven experience with KVM, virtualization, Python, and Ansible is essential for this role.
Responsibilities:
- The individual will develop and deliver software to enhance the functionality, reliability, availability, and manageability of applications and cloud platforms using a DevOps model for on-premise solution built on Bare Metal Servers or on OpenStack.
- They will ensure the quality, performance, robustness, and scalability of services, automate development processes through CI/CD pipelines, and champion Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) practices. Additionally, they will apply global IT infrastructure knowledge to develop standard solutions, evaluate new technologies, and engage cross-functional teams to solve problems or add business value.
- The role also includes setting and measuring SLOs for infrastructure, creating monitoring and logging features, and influencing technology decisions and policies.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 8+ years of IT experience; 5+ years of relevant experience in Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure.
- Solid cloud infrastructure background"