QTS Data Centers

Cloud Virtualization DevOps Engineer III

QTS Data Centers

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Suwanee • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

AnsibleChefCloudDNSDockerJavaScriptJenkinsLinuxPythonSMTPVMware

About the role

  • Streamline automation, visibility, and reliability improvements for QTS technology
  • Able to work across multiple programming languages, third party tools and integrations, and software and hardware
  • Establish and meet SLOs on reliability for QTS products and infrastructure
  • Ensure that operational technologies are integrated within QTS monitoring tools to increase visibility of potential issues to proactively reduce risk and maximize the availability of IT infrastructure & services while improving Mean Time to Restore during outages
  • Diagnose, troubleshoot and resolve external customer and QTS Systems issues
  • Facilitates meetings to determine feature design requirements from stakeholders
  • Supports organizational change management by providing platform training
  • Supports platform roadmap planning
  • Manage vendors and evaluate new technologies
  • Plan and document MOPs and engineering standards.
  • Manage lifecycle of assigned devices and provide associated budget inputs
  • Evangelize and implement an “automation first” mindset.
  • Brief executives regularly on improvements
  • Research issues using multiple sources as needed; take direction as needed to quickly resolve high severity issues
  • Work cross-departmentally on technology problems that digitally transform QTS
  • Proactively analyze system performance and identify improvement opportunities.
  • Create/update infrastructure documentation to include environment technical diagrams, workbooks, etc.
  • Write/update or review Change Requests, MOPs, and similar documentation.
  • Provide training and mentorship to Level I and II Cloud Engineers

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience
  • Seven or more years of progressive IT Engineering experience
  • Experience with OS systems (Linux and/or Windows) and virtualization technologies (VMware)
  • Advanced knowledge of Python, Ansible, PowerShell, and/or JavaScript/JSON/REST API
  • Advanced ability to write infrastructure as code and manage updates to associated playbooks and code repositories via best practice Agile and release management
  • Proficient ability to deploy, upgrade and migrate complex private cloud environments according to best practices using current versions of VMware vCenter Server and ESXi
  • Proficient understanding of BGP peering, HSRP and IP subnetting
  • Proficient understanding of SNMP, SMTP, DHCP, DNS
  • Proficient understanding of container technologies (Docker, Swarm, etc.)
  • Proficient understanding of CI/CD and orchestration tool(s) in support of code testing and automation (Jenkins, Chef, Ansible Tower)
  • US Citizenship for this position is required by law due to federal customer contracts.
Benefits
  • medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • flexible spending and HSA accounts
  • paid holidays
  • paid time off
  • paid volunteer days
  • employee assistance program
  • tuition assistance
  • parental leave
  • military leave assistance
  • QTS scholarship for dependents
  • wellness program
  • other company benefits
  • Bonus eligible

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
PythonAnsiblePowerShellJavaScriptJSONREST APIVMwareBGP peeringHSRPIP subnetting
Soft skills
communicationleadershiporganizational change managementmentorshipproblem-solvingcollaborationtrainingstakeholder engagementproactive analysisevangelism