IT Cloud Lead - Platform9 - remote

Posted 2 years ago  • Mountain View, CA

We are looking for an awesome Cloud Lead to own our IT roadmap and execution. At Platform9 you will have the opportunity to work on infrastructure that will help us build and deploy our software quickly, securely and repeatably. The person hired for this role will build the foundation for how we manage our infrastructure.

This is an opportunity to be part of a team that's building a platform for engineers like you to manage large private clouds. This role is crucial to the next phase of growth for the company.

Requirements:

  • A passion for documentation and automation. We have a strong culture of replacing manual processes with repeatable automation
  • Experience with Linux administration (CentOS and Ubuntu preferred)
  • Broad understanding of and experience with managing AWS/public cloud infrastructure.
  • Able to put in place basic IT best practices like procuring hardware, user provisioning/management and configuration management
  • Experience with managing and optimizing infrastructure spending and tracking OKRs or similar metrics.
  • Familiarity with configuration and management of Layer 2/Layer 3 physical network infrastructure
  • Practical experience implementing or leading compliance initiatives like PCI/SOC 2
  • Familiarity in network management, DNS management, switch configuration, VLAN, security and best practices, VPN, etc.
  • Familiarity with one or more scripting languages
  • A positive attitude and an ability to work with multiple competing demands on your time

Skills that will give you an edge:

  • Knowledge of OpenStack, KVM, VMware or Docker is highly desirable
  • Configuration Management using Salt, Ansible, Puppet or Chef
  • Experience with cloud computing infrastructure and automation: AWS, Google Cloud Platform, boto, etc.
  • Best practices with disaster recovery: backup and recovery, snapshots, always-up systems
  • Comfortable with industry standard practices related to security
  • Experience with alerting systems, monitoring tools and performance metric-gathering tools

To succeed in this role you’ll need to be a team player with a strong sense of ownership for your work and a passion for working in a data driven organization.=

Platform9 Core Values

1. Customer Obsession

2. Highest Standards

3. We bias towards action, and against decisions by committee

4. Take Ownership

5. Analytical

6. Radically Candid

7. We value disruptive innovation