Title: Platform Engineer (Contract)
Duration: 9 months
Location: San Jose
This person will be responsible for managing Nutanix's underlying platform infrastructure, which includes our backend hypervisors (AHV, VMware) and the HCI layer (AOS/NOS)
Responsibilities:
Maintenance and upgrades of our hypervisor and Nutanix platforms
o Upgrade to the newest GA AOS as they are released, before they go out to customers
- Re-image nodes and create/destroy/expand clusters as we transition and retire environments
- Manage and track our inventory and environments in all data centers
- Attend NPI and TOI sessions from Engineering to stay up to date on all the newest features and offerings from Nutanix and propose ideas for IT adoption of new features
- Monitor and manage existing environments to maintain and ensure a continuous healthy state of our platforms
o Capacity planning for our platforms and ensuring that we have enough runway to be able to tolerate node failures in each cluster
o Forecast, order, and add additional capacity as needed (compute, memory, and storage)
o Work with SREs to troubleshoot and fix cluster issues as they arise
Skills:
Good understanding and working knowledge of the following skills and key areas:
o At least one of the following: VMware, KVM, Hyper-V
- experience managing IaaS environments for enterprise companies using a well known platforms such as:
o AWS, Rackspace, GCP, Azure, Openstack
- Virtual networking (vSwitches, Portgroups, etc.)
- Good understanding of the following basic protocols TCP/IP, NFS, DHCP, DNS, LDAP/Kerberos
Screening/Must Have:
- Python
- Bash scripting
- Using APIs to automate tasks