Cloud Infrastructure Adminstrator

We are looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Administrator!

Here is what you need to know about the BlueCat's Infrastructure team: Cloud Infrastructure Administrator design, build, deploy, and manage BlueCat’s internal private cloud infrastructure and create all the tooling and automation needed to enable our teams and give our customers a top-tier experience.

You will work closely with internal stakeholders to bring your expertise and insights to the team, in order to find and implement solutions to business challenges.

The most important aspect of this team is that we're never satisfied with status quo: we continually learn, adapt and extend.

BlueCat is an agile shop, we expect you to experiment, fail, learn and most importantly, push forward.

Your day-to-day duties will include: · Designing and building our next generation private cloud using a multi-datacenter, highly distributed approach for networking, storage, and compute resources to maximize performance and scalability.

· Deploying configuring and patching ESXi servers, switches, firewalls, core services and other systems within our private cloud.

· Configuring monitoring systems to provide visibility on performance and availability of infrastructure and core services running on our private cloud.

· Managing accounts and access control policies to enable users to access resources securely.

· Assisting teams to deploy services and workloads using vCenter and tooling such as Gitlab, Python and Ansible.

· Troubleshooting and resolving faults and performance issues within the environment as they arise.

Skills and Experience Required: · 5+years experience in an operational role, whether that be cloud infrastructure, SRE or traditional network/server management.

· Strong Understanding of networking concepts and protocols including BGP, OSPF, firewall policies and Cisco IOS or Arista EOS.

· Experience managing highly converged infrastructure and datacentre network technologies such as Leaf & Spine, eVPN/VxLAN and VMware NSX.

· Experience configuring and troubleshooting VMware ESXi and related tools.

· Solid scripting skills using bash, Powershell, python, java Go and other languages.

· Experience using Active Directory, WSUS, LDAP.

· Experience and drive to define reproducible infrastructure as code, using tools like Ansible, Puppet, or SaltStack, Terraform, and CloudFormation · Understanding of tools and principles to implement monitoring, change control and incident response.

· Attention to security and reliability, desire to work with others and maintain clear and useful documentation and runbooks You’re practically a shoe-in if you: · Are proactive to identify and resolve development and customer problems.

· Have achieved mastery of Linux server operating environments.

· Have worked on a multi-datacenter production environment.

· Believe in collaboration and building solutions that are adaptable and reproduceable.

Full-Time