Openstack Engineer with Version Kilo

Cygnus Professionals Inc; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology consulting firm is seeking an Openstack Engineer to support and improve their cloud platform operations. The successful candidate will have at least one year of hands-on experience with OpenStack (version Kilo or later) and solid Unix system administration skills. Responsibilities include building and maintaining the Comcast Elastic Cloud, working with a team of engineers to implement improvements, and providing production support. Applicants must have authorization to work in the U.S. and will be subject to confidentiality per EEO guidelines.

Qualifications

• Minimum one year of hands-on experience with OpenStack in an SRE role.
• Experience with OpenStack version Kilo or later.
• Proficient in Unix system administration and Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Build out, upgrade, and provide production support for the Comcast Elastic Cloud.
• Promote greater operational awareness and availability of the cloud platform.
• Collaborate with a team of engineers to initiate and deliver improvements.

Skills

OpenStack

Ansible

Unix system administration

infrastructure-as-code

DevOps concepts

large-scale distributed systems

Job description

Headquartered in New Jersey (U.S), Cygnus Professionals Inc. is a next generation global information technology Solution and Consulting company powered by strong management and leadership team with over 30 person years of experience. Today, Cygnus has strong footprints in more than 4 countries with more than 25 satisfied customers. We strive to extend our presence across industries and geographies with our industry-focused business excellence.

Cygnus Professionals Inc. has been named by the US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation (USPAACC) as one of the “Fast 100 Asian American Businesses” – joining the country’s fastest-growing Asian American-owned companies, based on percentage revenue growth over the immediate past two years.

Job Description

Hello Associates,
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I have an urgent requirement for you. Kindly go through the below JD and if you would like to apply for this role so please provide me your updated resume along with your contact details and rate part.
Role: Openstack Engineer with Version Kilo
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Duration: 6 Months Contract (will continually extend)
Mode of Interview: Face To Face After Phone
Scope:
Openstack Engineer for Cloud Services Team work with vendors and the engineering team to develop new systems, implement new designs, deploy new systems and software, perform day‑to‑day systems administration and operations activities, troubleshooting, and build or integrate.
The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team at Comcast views Operations as a software problem to maximize availability, performance, and capacity utilization of our private OpenStack-based cloud.
We build operational awareness for our customers and ourselves, scale through automation, and continually improve within our craft, all in support of our goal of delivering business value faster.
We employ a combination of open source and custom in-house tools to achieve our goal. Our team provides L3 production support and will be contacted off‑hours if L1/L2 support teams are unable to resolve a production issue. Part of our ethos is to constantly strive for improvements and minimize those occurrences.
We support data centers in various locations across the U.S. that support Comcast customers across the country. Our cloud platform provides the underlying capability used by many products that are delivered to our customers’ homes such as the X1 platform and Xfinity Home, reinforcing the need for reliability and performance.
This role will be a key contributor to fulfilling the vision of building a highly‑available, secured, and well‑tested cloud platform capable of operating at scale. Creating infrastructure from code, finding areas and processes to improve, and innovating toward those improvements are all components of this role.

Responsibilities

1. Build out, upgrade, and production support of the Comcast Elastic Cloud (CEC).
2. Advance the state of the CEC to promote greater operational awareness, use of automation, availability, performance, and utilization of the cloud platform.
3. Work within a team environment of 10-12 engineers on the CEC SRE team and with application development teams to initiate and deliver improvements.
4. Production support may require after‑hours response and remediation.

Technical Must‑Haves

1. Hands‑on experience with OpenStack in an SRE role for greater than one year and with OpenStack version Kilo or later.
2. Hands‑on experience with Ansible. Experience with OpenStack Ansible a plus.
3. Solid Unix system administration experience.
4. Understanding of infrastructure‑as‑code.
5. Understanding of DevOps concepts.
6. Understanding of large‑scale distributed systems.

Additional Information

U.S. Citizens and those who are authorized to work independently in the United States are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.