Cloud Engineer

Cradlepoint is looking for a Cloud Engineer who will be instrumental in deploying and managing cutting-edge cloud solutions using OpenStack and OpenShift. Your role will involve advising customer teams on best practices, optimizing cloud infrastructure, and ensuring high performance and security in dynamic environments. You'll contribute to transforming insights into innovation, enabling customers to overcome IT complexities and capitalize on market opportunities at speed.

What You Will Do: Key Responsibilities

• Develop automation scripts using Bash scripting and Python to enhance the efficiency and quality of cloud operations.
• Demonstrate understanding of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).
• Utilize automation tools like Ansible, Puppet, and Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
• Possess practical experience with Redhat OCP/Kubernetes for container orchestration and managing microservices-based applications.
• Apply hands-on experience and expertise with OpenStack and Linux platforms.
• Handle OpenStack cloud administration tasks such as performance tuning, troubleshooting, and resource management. This includes managing availability zones, host aggregation, tenant management, and virtual resources.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to OpenStack services and underlying infrastructure.
• Monitor system health using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
• Demonstrate good experience in Linux Administration for both physical and virtual servers (OS Installation, Performance Monitoring/Optimization, Kernel Tuning, LVM management, File System Management, Security Management).
• Manage and troubleshoot Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 6.x, 7.x, 8.x) and Ubuntu systems, ensuring operational efficiency and seamless system upgrades.
• Configure and troubleshoot network components including TCP/IP, IPv4/IPv6, VLAN, VXLAN, bridging, routing, IP Tables, DNS, and DHCP.
• Operate and manage hardware through interfaces like iLO, iDRAC, and CIMC.
• Implement robust security measures to safeguard customer workloads and data, adhering to industry best practices and compliance standards.
• Ensure SLAs and Operational standards are met, including ITSM guidelines.

The Skills You Bring: Required Qualifications

• Minimum 4-8 years of experience in any Private Cloud technology.
• Hands-on experience in OpenStack cloud administration tasks and Linux administration.
• Strong knowledge of Linux administration, cloud concepts, network protocols, and automation tools.
• Hands-on experience with CEPH storage operations like OSD delete, recreate, set/unset flags as per operations requirement.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Candidates with Redhat OpenStack, RHCSA, and RHCE certifications will be given preference.