Platform Engineer

Ttile: Platform Engineer (Contract)
 Duration: 6 months
 Location: San Jose, CA

 
This person will be responsible for managing 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 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:
  • hypervisors
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

Thank you,
Sachin,
sachin@apninc.com
510-402-1063

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