Sr. Infrastructure Engineer- OpenStack IRONIC

Sustainable Talent•Santa Clara, CA

4d•$70 - $90

About The Position

Sustainable Talent is partnering with NVIDIA, a global leader in accelerated computing, AI, and graphics technology, to hire a Senior DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer supporting the Infrastructure, Planning & Process (IPP) Team. This is a full-time (W-2) contract role. We offer competitive pay $70/hr - $90/hr based on factors like experience, education, location, etc. and provide full benefits, PTO, and amazing company culture! IPP is a global organization within NVIDIA. This group works with various other groups within NVIDIA such as Graphics Processors, Mobile Processors, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Driverless Cars to cater to their infrastructure needs. These cloud services provide almost half a million automated jobs per day on thousands of servers helping with the productivity of thousands of NVIDIA's software engineers worldwide. The cloud hosts a heterogeneous mix of machines and devices with various operating systems (Windows/Linux/Android), a multitude of hardware platforms both NVIDIA GPUs and Tegra Processors.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
5+ years of relevant experience.
Thorough understanding of the PXE process, including host configuration (BIOS and network card), general network configurations such as VLANs, switch port settings, and cabling.
Knowledge of services involved in PXE booting, such as DHCP (DNSMASK), TFTP, HTTP, and ISCSI, essential for troubleshooting.
Familiarity with OpenStack services and their interactions, including nova, nova placement, Neutron, Glance, Cinder, and Ironic.
Ability to troubleshoot across different OpenStack applications, comprehend the OpenStack deployment process, and understand service dependencies and order of operations.
Proficiency in reading and writing Python code.
Expertise in supporting third-party services like Docker(swarm), MySQL, RabbitMQ, CEPH, HaProxy, and Keepalived.
Ability to use tools such as Ansible, Gitlab, Jenkins, and Elastic Search for successful system configuration and maintenance.

Nice To Haves

Experience in large scale QA environments, for product bring ups.
Operations Support managing Bug Queues and Support Tickets Strong Network and Troubleshooting skills Background with Linux, RHEL, Anisible, Bash and Python.
Familiarity with Jenkins, Ansible and REST APIs.
Experience with openstack Ironic and Baremetal provisioning Ability to Root cause analysis of failures

Responsibilities

Support OpenStack Team Operations queue working within our Infrastructure and Cloud Operations Environments.
Manage Projects, develop KPIs and work closely with stakeholders on timeline and deliverables Support Cloud based operations, monitoring, troubleshooting and assisting triage and resolution of bugs, KPI investigations related to systems .
Solve sophisticated problems involving multi-site OpenStack deployments supporting NVIDIA products.
Collaborate with multi-functional teams, including system engineering, software engineering, mechanical/thermal engineering, operations, data center teams, external vendors, and other partners to successfully deliver a reliable and robust platform from concept to prototype to deployments.
Directly contribute to the overall quality of deployments and improve time to market next gen products.