Senior DevOps Engineer - OpenStack

Senior DevOps Engineer - OpenStack

The Cloud team is agile, fast-moving team driving the future of this central Jio platform. We are providing IaaS (OpenStack Cloud) and are looking for a Senior DevOps engineers who are experts in monitoring and troubleshooting Open Stack and Kubernetes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of systems administration experience in Unix, Open Stack and other Cloud Technologies
• Experience as systems engineer handling different aspects of a production site like web servers, network issue debugging, good understanding of TCP/IP protocols, DNS, racking and cabling, server configuration and experience working in a 24x7 environment.
• Strong Experience with Incident, release and change management.
• Strong experience with scripting and automation using Perl, shell, Python or any other scripting languages.
• Experience with monitoring of Enterprise servers using Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Netapp OCM, consul.
• Basic experience handling databases like Postgres, MySQL and MongoDB.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• OpenStack Cloud Management: Manage and monitor OpenStack clusters to ensure uptime, stability, and performance.
• Responsible for managing advanced storage clusters like Ceph, ECS Storage, PureStorage and NetApp.
• Monitoring & Alerting: Develop and maintain comprehensive monitoring solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana to ensure early detection of issues and timely resolution.
• Incident Management: Lead incident, problem, and change management processes, troubleshooting complex issues in production environments
• Automation: Implement automation scripts using Shell, Python, or other scripting languages to streamline operations, deployments, and monitoring tasks.
• Responsible for capacity planning and optimization of existing resources and infrastructure
• Responsible for production support and oncall on 24x7 basis

Key Performance Indicators:

• Individual will be measured against 100% uptime of OpenStack cloud and component availability
• Elimination of manual processes and 100% automation of processes in the Openstack cloud

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE / QUALIFICATIONS:

Educational Qualification:

• Necessary: Engineering graduate
• Desirable: BE Computer Science or MTech Computer Science

Soft Skills:

• An engineer who ‘Simply gets the work done’ and suggests technical solutions    
• Strong commitment towards team building, partnerships, and collaborations
• Excellent communication skills and subject knowledge          
• Excellent execution, organizing        
• The ability to gain trust and respect of his juniors, peers, seniors and the market alike