Platform Engineer – Global Video Delivery & Performance

VELOCIX LIMITED; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Velocix Limited is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our Engineering team. You will focus on the performance, tuning and resilience of our large-scale, distributed video delivery platform – optimizing server, storage, network, OS/kernel, virtualization and cloud infrastructure to deliver content reliably to users worldwide.

You will collaborate across teams to design and implement scalable infrastructure, automate provisioning with Python and Ansible, and ensure high availability through

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on server, storage, network, OS/kernel, VM and cloud architecture experience.
• Strong tuning experience to improve application performance.
• Expertise in tuning network and kernel parameters for high performance.
• Experience with Ceph and Cassandra.
• Proficient in Python and Ansible development.
• Good knowledge of Linux kernel and network stacks.
• Experience with AWS, OpenStack, Linux KVM, VMware.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• Able to work in a cross-functional team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, tune and maintain server, storage, network and virtualization infra for video platform.
• Profile and tune platform and SOA apps to meet performance targets.
• Fine-tune Linux network/kernel for high throughput and low latency.
• Deploy, configure, operate and troubleshoot Ceph and Cassandra clusters.
• Automate provisioning, configuration and deployment with Python and Ansible.
• Manage workloads across AWS and OpenStack/Linux KVM/VMware.
• Improve resilience with capacity planning and fault-tolerance.
• Set up monitoring, alerts and observability; participate in incident response.
• Collaborate with Dev, QA and Product to validate NF requirements.
• Analyze and fix platform-related field issues.

Skills

Python

Ansible

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Ceph

Cassandra

Kernel tuning

OpenStack

VMware

Networking

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Related field

Tools

Ceph

Cassandra

OpenStack

Linux

Job description

Velocix Limited is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our Engineering team. You will focus on the performance, tuning and resilience of our large-scale, distributed video delivery platform – optimizing server, storage, network, OS/kernel, virtualization and cloud infrastructure to deliver content reliably to users worldwide.

You will collaborate across teams to design and implement scalable infrastructure, automate provisioning with Python and Ansible, and ensure high availability through