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QTS Data Centers · 2 months ago

Cloud Virtualization DevOps Engineer III

Suwanee, GA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

7+ years exp

QTS Data Centers is a leading provider of data center services, and they are seeking a Cloud Virtualization DevOps Engineer III to enhance automation, visibility, and reliability of their technology infrastructure. This role involves utilizing advanced technologies to manage and troubleshoot QTS’ infrastructure, working collaboratively on enterprise-wide projects to support digital transformation goals.

Cloud ComputingCloud InfrastructureData CenterWeb Hosting

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

PythonAnsibleVMwareInfrastructure as CodeCI/CDLinuxWindowsDockerBGP peeringSNMPSMTPDHCPDNSJavaScriptPowerShellAgileProblem solvingCommunication skills

Required

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 (etc., 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