CLOUD ENGINEER

Target Labs, Inc; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in technology solutions is looking for a resource to support the Customer Cloud Platform. This role involves performance analysis, capacity planning, and collaboration on strategic technology solutions. Candidates must have broad knowledge across various IT areas and experience integrating virtualization solutions.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with hypervisor and compute virtualization technologies.
• Experience in architecture, design, and implementation of highly scalable cloud services.
• Strong knowledge of server platforms and security standards.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for performance analysis and capacity planning for the Customer Cloud.
• Identify and react to problems related to technology infrastructure.
• Collaborate with peers and resources in other departments for projects.

Skills

VMware vSphere

Cisco UCS

Windows Server

Red Hat

CentOS

Job description

Resource will provide support for Customer Cloud Platform and projects.

Brief Job Description:

The position will be responsible for performance analysis and capacity planning to ensure the Customer Cloud can support new projects. He or she will identify and/or react to problems related to the technology infrastructure supporting the Customer Cloud environments. This candidate must have the ability to demonstrate a broad knowledge level across multiple areas of information technology. The candidate will also be involved as a key team member on strategic or enterprise-wide technology solutions. The candidate is expected to collaborate with peers and resources in other departments to complete projects and related items.

Required Skills:

VMware vSphere 3, 4, 5; VMware vCenter 3, 4, 5; Cisco UCS; NetApp and Hitachi Storage; Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012; Red Hat 5, 6; CentOS 5, 6.

Additional Skills:

.NET coding; Cisco networking; Firewall concepts; Load balancer concepts; Amazon AWS Web Services.

Additional Requirements:

• Hands-on experience with hypervisor and compute virtualization technologies (VMware, vSphere, vCenter, vCloud, VMware View, Microsoft Hyper-V, Red Hat KVM, Citrix XenServer, XenDesktop, XenApp).
• Experience in architecture, design, and implementation of highly scalable, highly available cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• Experience with network and storage virtualization.
• Experience with elastic scaling and automated application deployment on cloud solutions.
• Experience integrating virtualization solutions with other platform technologies (storage, server, network, Active Directory, databases, OS).
• Strong knowledge of server platforms: HP, Cisco UCS, Dell, IBM.
• Understanding of security standards and concepts.
• Strong knowledge of storage platforms: SAN, NAS, SSDs; NetApp, EMC, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Brocade, FusionIO.
• Knowledge of data center infrastructure: Cisco Nexus, high-end LAN switches, load balancers, firewalls, power, and cooling.