Site Reliability Engineer
Cognowiz
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Job Details
Skills
- Ansible
- Cloud Computing
- Git
- Jenkins
- Linux
- Open Source
- Python
- Shell Scripting
- Storage
- Problem Solving
- Openstack
Summary
Role Name: Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Reston, VA 20190
Duration: 6-month contract (possible extension)
Interview Process/# of Rounds: 2 Rounds – 30 min screen > 2 hour panel on site > Offer
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer III to join a team that is responsible for the building, managing, and maintaining the Verisign private cloud platform on which our mission-critical services depend. We prize operations professionals who are equipped with great technical skills, experiences, and a self-starting attitude. We seek individuals with a strong sense of responsibility; individuals who are curious, demonstrate initiative, and love
solving problems.
Our platform is centered around Openstack and other open-source software such as Jenkins, ansible and git, running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Our platform is tightly integrated with the rest of the company’s infrastructure services and serves as the company’s private cloud computing and storage infrastructure. The team is responsible for
the provisioning and administration of the platform, with a strong focus on operational disciplines and security practices.
Job responsibilities:
- Build, operate, and maintain our on-prem Openstack platform.
- Monitor and resolve alerts of the platform.
- Troubleshoot platform and user problems.
- Document problem-solving steps.
- Ensure compliance with vulnerability management standards and information.
- Security standards, support regular patching of the platform elements.
- Participate in on-call rotation for tier 3 support.
Desired Skills, Experience, and Attributes:
- An ideal candidate will have a blend of technical skills, a desire to work as part of a team to grow themselves and those around them, and will have:
- Experience with OpenStack configuration and administration.
- Experience working as a Linux sysadmin in a large-scale environment.
- Experience using shell scripting, Python, Ansible.
- Experience maintaining highly available services.
- General understanding of network protocols and security best practices.
- Fluency with development tools and processes such as GitHub, Jira
- Written and verbal communication skills – ability to clearly and succinctly describe complex issues
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Prior experience developing or operating an OpenStack platform in a production environment.
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Dice Id: RTX1d96e9
- Position Id: 9138513
- Posted 1 day ago
Company Info
About Cognowiz
CognoWiz is an innovative and professional services provider firm with expertise on Analytics solutions. We serve you to make better business decisions. Since our founding by a team of ex-consultants, we have focused solely on Business Intelligence Analytics. Based on our background, we have built the company with an emphasis on process and methodology that enables us to deliver repeatable results of high quality to our clients. Our strong customer partnerships based on collaboration and quality of service have allowed us to grow and serve our customers better.
As a service provider, our team members, both internal and external, are the core of who we are as a company. Our team members have deep knowledge required to understand our clients’ needs and to deliver professionals with the right skills and experience for successful projects.
Our work environment is dynamic and challenging. We are focused on attracting and retaining top talent in the industry through an emphasis on entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation and stability.
