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
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:
o At least one of the following: VMware, KVM, Hyper-V
o AWS, Rackspace, GCP, Azure, Openstack
Screening/Must Have: - Python - Bash scripting - Using APIs to automate tasks