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Platform Engineer

APN Software Services Inc.

Platform Engineer

San Jose, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    Title: Platform Engineer (Contract)  Duration: 9 months   Location: San Jose    This person will be responsible for managing Nutanix's underlying platform infrastructure, which includes our backend hypervisors (AHV, VMware) and the HCI layer (AOS/NOS)

     Responsibilities: Maintenance and upgrades of our hypervisor and Nutanix platforms

    o    Upgrade to the newest GA AOS as they are released, before they go out to customers

    • Re-image nodes and create/destroy/expand clusters as we transition and retire environments
    • Manage and track our inventory and environments in all data centers
    • Attend NPI and TOI sessions from Engineering to stay up to date on all the newest features and offerings from Nutanix and propose ideas for IT adoption of new features
    • Monitor and manage existing environments to maintain and ensure a continuous healthy state of our platforms

    o    Capacity planning for our platforms and ensuring that we have enough runway to be able to tolerate node failures in each cluster

    o    Forecast, order, and add additional capacity as needed (compute, memory, and storage)

    o    Work with SREs to troubleshoot and fix cluster issues as they arise

     Skills:

     Good understanding and working knowledge of the following skills and key areas:

    • hypervisors

    o    At least one of the following: VMware, KVM, Hyper-V

    • experience managing IaaS environments for enterprise companies using a well known platforms such as:

    o    AWS, Rackspace, GCP, Azure, Openstack

    • Virtual networking (vSwitches, Portgroups, etc.)
    • Good understanding of the following basic protocols TCP/IP, NFS, DHCP, DNS, LDAP/Kerberos

    Screening/Must Have:   - Python  - Bash scripting  - Using APIs to automate tasks