Cloud Systems Engineer (remote work)

We are looking for a Cloud System Engineer who is well-versed in private and public cloud infrastructure, Linux server management, along with experience in on-premise to cloud migration.

Responsibilities include implementation, configuration and support of our cloud server infrastructure across South East Asia, as well as planning and execution of migration of on-premise servers and applications to the cloud.

This is an Independent Contractor position with a possibility of conversion to full-time employment based on performance. 

Most tasks will be carried out remotely.

What you will be doing 

• Operating and maintaining large scale cloud infrastructure and servers in global data centres

• Working on various Linux server projects alongside multiple departments

• Migrating clients on-premise servers to the cloud via replication or data backups

• Assessing and resolving server and network-related issues escalated by internal and external users

• Proactive monitoring of supported cloud instances

Requirements

• Solid experience with Linux and virtualization

• Familiarity with virtualization technologies and troubleshooting virtual machine instances

• Experience with monitoring systems and incident management

• Experience with on-premise to cloud migration

• Experience with configuration management and automation systems

Technical requirements

• Server Systems - Linux

• Virtualization - KVM, Xen, or similar

• Cloud Computing - Non-Azure based cloud experience

• Cloud Migration - Veeam, Acronis, or similar

• Monitoring - Prometheus, Grafana

• Automation - Salt, Ansible, Puppet, Chef

Nice-to-haves

• Cloud Orchestration - Cloudstack, Openstack, Proxmox VE etc.

• Cloud Computing - Both AWS/Azure/GCP and non-AWS/Azure/GCP cloud experience (ie. Rackspace, IBM Cloud, etc.)

• Block Storage (iSCSI, SAN, NFS)

• Experience with Windows Server 2012, 2016, 2019, and Microsoft SQL

• Experience in Cisco IOS/NX-OS or Juniper Junos

Who are we looking for

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English)

• Able to work autonomously as well as collaborate effectively with various stakeholders

• Comfortable working in a fast paced environment

• Able to work remotely. You will need to have your own laptop and a strong wifi connection

• Willing to travel (e.g. to server locations for cloud migration)