We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer experienced with Ceph storage clusters to join our expanding IT Operations team. This role involves a high level of collaboration with other technical staff.
Responsibilities
• Work with the Architecture Team and the Development Teams to translate company needs into infrastructure solutions that will suit those needs and requirements in terms of performance, resource usage, scalability, resilience and observability. The proposed solutions may include on premises virtualised/bare-metal, cloud or hybrid architectures and must ensure the use of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, Infrastructure as Code and GitOps approaches.
• Invest time in developing and maintaining pipelines, scripts and playbooks to continuously reduce the human tasks required to operate the production services (toil).
• Collaborate with the Architecture Team and the Development Teams in projects for moving production services to cloud environments.
• Manage Ceph storage clusters; perform maintenance and tuning on the shared storage platform.
• Troubleshoot Ceph related issues.
• Define Ceph storage cluster best practices, monitoring and operational procedures.
• Provisioning, operational tasks (performance, scaling, organization, routine patching, security…) and decommissioning of Linux servers.
• Provisioning, operational tasks (performance, scaling, organization, routine patching, security) and decommissioning of OpenStack clusters and running VMs.
• Provisioning, operational tasks (performance, scaling, organization, routine patching, security…) and decommissioning of Kubernetes clusters and deployed resources.
• Provide comprehensive handover, top tier technical assistance and documentation to the operating and monitoring teams.
• Management of infrastructure services such as email/SMTP, web, DNS, SNMP, DHCP, and others
• Participate in shared on-call rotation
Requirements
• Strong experience managing Ceph storage clusters; perform maintenance and tuning on the shared storage platform.
• Experience troubleshooting Ceph related issues in high performance environments.
• Experience in automating configuration management tasks using Ansible playbooks.
• Wide experience with Unix/Linux systems (Canonical Ubuntu and Redhat/CentOS Linux) in a large-scale operations, distributed Linux production set-up.
• Experience in centralized management systems (Puppet, Canonical Landscape).
• Experience in writing scripts for automating infrastructure tasks (Python, shell script…).
• Experience working with OpenStack platform (COA certification is a plus).
• Experience with centralized logging management tools (Splunk, ELK, Fluentd).
• Experience in using Terraform to apply Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience in writing automation pipelines (Argo Workflow GitHub Actions…) is a plus.
• Understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment tools (Jenkins, Bamboo, ArgoCD, …) and practices (deployment strategies, micro-service pattern, …)
• Clued-up on enterprise level virtualisation (VMware, KVM)
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot systems and network problems.
• Nice to have experience and knowledge Windows systems administration and investigation, especially of event log and services.
• Extremely organized with a strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work well under pressure.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks and competing priorities.
• Great communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills.
• Fluent in English.
Job Category: Infrastructure
Job Type: Full Time
Job Location: Malaga, Madrid