Canonical Openstack Cloud Engineer

Job Description:

DXC Technology is looking for a Canonical Openstack Cloud Engineer.

The candidate will be responsible for:

• installation, configuration and support of cloud based infrastructure using DXC best practices.

• Reporting into the Italy Cloud & Platform organization

• solving complex business issues

• consulting, designing, testing, implementing, managing capability requirements, and integrating of Cloud solutions into varied environments.

• working in a team of architects, infrastructure engineers, developers participating on the technical design, modeling, coding, testing and release of the automated cloud solutions to production.

Minimum skills required:

• Strong and solid background in GNU/Linux Operating System administration skills (5+years)

• Experience supporting a large/medium/small scale, elastic, highly available cloud environment

• Knowledge of the OpenStack project ecosystem and hands-on Openstack development / coding experience (Openstack Canonical requested)

• Solid and proven experience with orchestration engine and delivering IaaS and PaaS offerings within Openstack

• 5+ years of experience with software development, especially in Linux environment with one or more of the following languages - Java, C++, Perl, Python, Bash, PowerShell

• Experience developing solutions with configuration/automation management tools such as Puppet, Ansible or Chef.

• Experience with monitoring and usage collection tools such as Nagios Zabbix and Ceilometer

• At least 2 year experience with proven expertise in application containerization management with Dockers.

• Container orchestration with Docker Swarm or Kubernetes

• Architecting end to end CI/CD solutions using popular Platforms like Jenkins or GitLab

• Strong experience in Source code repositories like Git and SVN

• Understanding of Windows, Linux, Networking, TCP-IP, Routing, Switching, Firewalls, Load balancers and other infrastructure components

• Understanding of Microservice Architecture and REST based implementation of APIs

• Experience designing and using web services APIs (RESTful, SOAP)

• Knowledge of Big data processing, (i.e., Apache Kafka, Storm, Hadoop, Spark etc)

• Experience with any of following is a plus:

• Virtualization and/or Cloud: vCenter, Amazon AWS, MS Azure, Google Compute, etc.

• Cloud Orchestration/Management Platforms, VMware vRealize suite (vRA, vRO), HP CSA, ScalR, RedHat CloudForms

• Experience with emerging web GUI development platforms (AJAX, HTML5, JSON, JQuery, JavaScript)

• Participation and contribution to Open Source projects

• Task Automation and Software Distribution Tools (HP Server Automation (HPSA), SCCM or equivalent solutions), IBM Big-Fix

• Reporting / Analytics (Business Objects, HP Autonomy, HP Vertica, HP Operations Analytics, Qlikview, Hadoop or equivalent solutions)

Education and Certifications required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent

• ITIL Foundations certification preferred

• Certified Openstack Admistration preferred

• Docker Certified Associate preferred

• Linux Foundation Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) preferred

• Must have fluent and excellent written / spoken English language

Work Location: Rome with Remote Work possibility

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