Seeking a Systems Architect who is proficient in design and architecture of highly available compute infrastructure in a private cloud environment. This person will be responsible for automating operational activities related to Servers, Operating Systems, Active Directory, vSphere, storage, load balancers, Nginx and other systems technologies in the cloud.
What you get to do in this role:
- Manage a development lab consisting of approximately 200 physical servers, 20 network switches, and over 1000 virtual machines using various flavors of Linux and Windows.
- Perform design improvements on a lab infrastructure consisting of Dell servers, Juniper switches, A10 load balancers, Nginx proxies, Seagate storage arrays.
- Support the Kubernetes-based Jenkins build environments and implement improvements to increase reliability and operational efficiency.
- Architect methods for keeping the lab build environment in-line with the needs.
- Drive the automation of operational activities for the lab, including integrations with vSphere, Jenkins, and ServiceNow.
- Deploy and decommission physical servers and switches as part of a hardware lifecycle process
- Identify operational inefficiencies and implement innovative solutions to reduce manual work.
- Partner with developers to integrate technologies with the platform.
- Ensure high quality documentation for supported infrastructure is developed and maintained.
- Ensure systems comply with IT Security requirements and are patched regularly.