Cloud Engineer

Position Details Job Title:    Software Engineer Job Location:    Research Triangle Park NC Job Duration:    18 months+ Contract Job Responsibilities:    Description Client is searching for an experienced engineer to work as part of our Cloud Services team deploying and validating cloud based virtual architectures. This position focuses on the QA and deployment activities involved in continuous integration in a multi-tenant cloud environment.

• Deploy bits (code, configs, tests) using git, gerrit, jenkins, go for a SDLC in CICD.
• Develop and execute tests based on the requirements for new features of Client’s Cloud offering. Focus on the negative, HA, performance and scale aspects. Tests will be integrated into Continuous Integration and Deployment pipeline.
• Log and track issues and drive them to resolution with verification of bug fixes, document test results and research findings.
• Play an active role in the design, development, and testing of application workflows in a cloud environment
• Plan and execute end-to-end performance / scale tests on a virtual cloud environment based on Openstack
• Collaborate with co-located and remote colleagues to solve technical issues.
• Validate large-scale application workflows comprised of large application pools in a cloud architecture
• Work with automation team to tag and assess manual test cases so they can be automated

Weekly defect and test case reports via Rally and status on automation of test cases for execution in CI/CD Defects: must be detailed and tracked in Rally. Must be followed through to resolution. Must be reviewed for possible automation

Test Cases: manual test cases must be executed and then reviewed for automation in CI/CD process Agile: daily scrums must be attended as required

Skills and experience to include 1 or more of the following:

• Hands on experience designing, supporting or deploying applications in an Openstack environment
• Hands on experience with Openstack is required.
• Experience with monitoring solutions such as Nagios, Ganglia, Zenoss, Prime is desired.
• Experience with provisioning and configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, cobbler, or Juju. Experience with Puppet / ansible preferred.
• Candidates must have some experience with scripting languages such as Perl, Python, or Bash. Python experience is strongly preferred.
• Expert familiarity with cloud computing concepts including virtualization, web services API's, elastic infrastructure, distributed data storage (database, block, object), multitenancy, and metered usage patterns.
• Familiarity with basic networking protocols and concepts (TCP/IP, VLANs, subnetting) are required.
• Candidates must have an excellent working knowledge of Linux. Experience with multiple distributions (Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc), networking (bonding, bridging, iptables, vlans, OVS, etc), virtualization (KVM, libvirt, etc), and server software (Apache, open iSCSI, NFS, MySQL and/or Galera, MongoDB, etc) are all strongly desirable.
• Experience with block, file, and object storage systems such as Swift, Ceph, iSCSI, SAN, NAS is a plus. Experience with Ceph and Swift a plus.
• Ideal candidate will be able to quickly ramp up on new technologies outside of comfort zone and think at scale.
• Candidates must possess excellent team and people skills and should be comfortable working in geographically dispersed teams.
• Candidates should be able to use problem solving techniques to identify, scope, and resolve difficult, intermittent, and other technical issues at scale.
• Experience working in an Agile environment preferred (Rally, Jira, http://agilescout.com/best-agile-scrum-tools/) Responsibilities:
• Play an active role in the design, development, and testing of data center systems architectures for deploying OpenStack clouds.
• Collaborate with co-located and remote colleagues to solve technical issues.
• Validate large-scale cloud architectures executing, and documenting test plans.
• Execute tests, log and track issues and drive them to resolution with verification of bug fixes, document test results and research findings.
• Modify software/scripts as needed to assist in the systems validation process.

Test and document software for client applications.  Write code to create single-threaded, multi-threaded or user interface event driven applications, either stand-alone and those which access servers or services. 7 years of experience are required.

Venkat

973 841 2407

HM is available to interview ASAP. If you are interested with the Opportunity please reach me 973 841 2407