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Cloud Academy is always on the lookout for the most promising Cloud Computing opportunities.
Employers: interested in reaching our readers with your job openings? Send us an email.
As you no doubt already know, the Cloud Computing job market is huge. So, once again, I am going to concentrate on a specific job role. This week it’s particularly promising AWS Systems Administrator openings around the globe.
1. Cloud/LINUX Systems Administrator
Infor – Irving/Los Collinas Office
Job Description:
Are you looking for an opportunity to work with CLOUD & integration platforms? Looking to work in a collaborative, team-oriented environment, where your input makes a real difference? The Infor Cloud team is looking for software and system professionals to join us and help deploy and maintain services in private and public clouds.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Work closely with cloud architects to develop, plan and implement application deployments to Infor clouds.
- Drive technical innovation and efficiency in cloud infrastructure operations via automation.
- Provide on-call technical support, troubleshooting and complex problem resolution on escalated issues while monitoring and maintaining application environment stability.
- Work effectively with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements and identify and resolve technical design issues
- Degree/Diploma in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or relevant experience.
- Strong administration skills in Linux or other UNIX variants.
- Ability to create simple scripts and programs (Perl/Python programming, shell scripting or similar).
- Knowledge and experience in supporting and troubleshooting Linux networking services and protocols: TCP/IP, NIS, DNS, NFS, LDAP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, SNMP, SSL, and HTTP.
- Ability to grasp concepts quickly.
- Ability to work in a team.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, particularly in documenting and teaching installation and configuration processes.
2. Senior UNIX Systems Administrator – Web Infrastructure (DevOps, Chef/Puppet/Ansible)
Andiamo Partners – New York, NY
Job Description:
The Web Operations team is looking for a platform and infrastructure engineer to help us in building a flexible architecture for deploying web applications. Our team provides the core web infrastructure and support for all consumer, subscription and internal web products. We are currently building out software infrastructure for automating the configuration and deployment of web infrastructure.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Automate operation, installation, and monitoring of web infrastructure components in our open source software stack
- Provide application developer support, documentation and training materials
- Troubleshoot and debug production of web infrastructure
- Train application developers on web infrastructure and best practices
3. AWS Systems Engineer
Stelfox IT Recruitment – Dublin City Centre
Job Description:
Looking for a seasoned AWS guru for an Irish success story that are building a cloud-based customer intelligence platform. Using their industry experience, combined with their data-analytics expertise, they are striving to deliver personalised recommendations to the end-user to give people what they want, when they want it.
For the successful candidate you will be working in a diverse and challenging environment with some of the smartest engineers in Ireland.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of our AWS platform
- Manage systems and policies critical to our development and test infrastructure
- Manage cloud and hosted systems required for large-scale testing
- Define and manage backup strategy for IT and development systems
- Automate On-demand provisioning of platforms for production, development, and test using virtualization
- Script everything. Research and Implementation of any interfaces and tools required.
- Maintain and Promote operational best practices. Implement test / deployment controls and processes.
- Expansion of capture infrastructure and implementing redundancy strategies
- Collaborate with product engineers to resolve connectivity, performance, and stability issues with development infrastructure
- Work with field team to understand and replicate customer IT environments
- Work with development team to ensure product features are designed to ensure zero downtime
4. Systems Administrator (DevOps)
Cisco – San Jose, CA
Job Description:
The Business Entity
Service Provider Video Software Solutions (SPVSS) is the market leading provider of end to end and component solutions for the Service Provider Video markets including Broadcasters, MSOs, DTH, Telcos, Service Providers, Primary Distribution and Secondary Distribution providers. If you’ve watched video, you have interacted with some of our products.
The Team
The Cloud Video team will design, develop, and deploy transformational experiences leveraging Cloud Technologies for the Service Provider, Entertainment and Media market. This is a start-up group within Cisco tasked with building the solution from the ground up to transform the future of video delivery. We’re taking TV to the cloud.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Cloud Academy is always on the lookout for the most promising Cloud Computing opportunities.
Employers: interested in reaching our readers with your job openings? Send us an email.
As you no doubt already know, the Cloud Computing job market is huge. So, once again, I am going to concentrate on a specific job role. This week it’s particularly promising AWS Systems Administrator openings around the globe.
1. Cloud/LINUX Systems Administrator
Infor – Irving/Los Collinas Office
Job Description:
Are you looking for an opportunity to work with CLOUD & integration platforms? Looking to work in a collaborative, team-oriented environment, where your input makes a real difference? The Infor Cloud team is looking for software and system professionals to join us and help deploy and maintain services in private and public clouds.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Work closely with cloud architects to develop, plan and implement application deployments to Infor clouds.
- Drive technical innovation and efficiency in cloud infrastructure operations via automation.
- Provide on-call technical support, troubleshooting and complex problem resolution on escalated issues while monitoring and maintaining application environment stability.
- Work effectively with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements and identify and resolve technical design issues
- Degree/Diploma in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or relevant experience.
- Strong administration skills in Linux or other UNIX variants.
- Ability to create simple scripts and programs (Perl/Python programming, shell scripting or similar).
- Knowledge and experience in supporting and troubleshooting Linux networking services and protocols: TCP/IP, NIS, DNS, NFS, LDAP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, SNMP, SSL, and HTTP.
- Ability to grasp concepts quickly.
- Ability to work in a team.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, particularly in documenting and teaching installation and configuration processes.
2. Senior UNIX Systems Administrator – Web Infrastructure (DevOps, Chef/Puppet/Ansible)
Andiamo Partners – New York, NY
Job Description:
The Web Operations team is looking for a platform and infrastructure engineer to help us in building a flexible architecture for deploying web applications. Our team provides the core web infrastructure and support for all consumer, subscription and internal web products. We are currently building out software infrastructure for automating the configuration and deployment of web infrastructure.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Automate operation, installation, and monitoring of web infrastructure components in our open source software stack
- Provide application developer support, documentation and training materials
- Troubleshoot and debug production of web infrastructure
- Train application developers on web infrastructure and best practices
3. AWS Systems Engineer
Stelfox IT Recruitment – Dublin City Centre
Job Description:
Looking for a seasoned AWS guru for an Irish success story that is building a cloud-based customer intelligence platform. Using their industry experience, combined with their data-analytics expertise, they are striving to deliver personalized recommendations to the end-user to give people what they want, when they want it.
For the successful candidate, you will be working in a diverse and challenging environment with some of the smartest engineers in Ireland.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of our AWS platform
- Manage systems and policies critical to our development and test infrastructure
- Manage cloud and hosted systems required for large-scale testing
- Define and manage backup strategy for IT and development systems
- Automate On-demand provisioning of platforms for production, development and test using virtualization
- Script everything. Research and Implementation of any interfaces and tools required.
- Maintain and Promote operational best practices. Implement test / deployment controls and processes.
- Expansion of capture infrastructure and implementing redundancy strategies
- Collaborate with product engineers to resolve connectivity, performance, and stability issues with development infrastructure
- Work with field team to understand and replicate customer IT environments
- Work with development team to ensure product features are designed to ensure zero downtime
4. Systems Administrator (DevOps)
Cisco – San Jose, CA
Job Description:
The Business Entity
Service Provider Video Software Solutions (SPVSS) is the market leading provider of end to end and component solutions for the Service Provider Video markets including Broadcasters, MSOs, DTH, Telcos, Service Providers, Primary Distribution and Secondary Distribution providers. If you’ve watched the video, you have interacted with some of our products.
The Team
The Cloud Video team will design, develop, and deploy transformational experiences leveraging Cloud Technologies for the Service Provider, Entertainment and Media market. This is a start-up group within Cisco tasked with building the solution from the ground up to transform the future of video delivery. We’re taking the TV to the cloud.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Our mission is to bring Cisco Video applications to the Cloud, this isn’t refactoring some 90’s legacy code to run on AWS. This is an opportunity to re-define the future of video capture, processing, delivery and consumption from the established market leader.
You’ll be part of a dynamic team and be the type of person who has a track record in building and shipping products, comfortable eating your own dog food and wearing many hats in ional experiences leveraging Cloud Technologies for the Service Provider, Entertainment and Media market. This is a start-up group within Cisco tasked with building the solutithe process of planning, designing and delivering the platforms, tools, and services to our customers. This role has the following responsibilities:
• On-call response to escalated monitoring system alarms and trouble tickets
• Review and improve ‘run-books’ to standardize the operation of the systems
• Install, operate and troubleshoot advanced clouds using OpenStack
• Install, operate and troubleshoot hardware systems in data centers to support private clouds
• Provide expert OpenStack advice and support for remote private and hybrid-private clouds
• Automate installation, operation and corrective actions using salt, chef, puppet
• Write and maintain scripts to support operations, development, and testing of advanced software
5. Linux System Administrator
Q – Malibu, CA
Job Description:
As an experienced Linux Systems Administrator, you will be charged with building and maintaining enterprise-class and mission critical infrastructure for Dun & Bradstreet using Linux, AWS, and Salt Stack Configuration Management. The Systems Administrator will oversee the maintenance, installation, optimization, and consistent up-time of all dedicated and cloud instances owned and managed by the Company. This is a highly technical role and requires solid competence of all aspects of software and cloud infrastructure. You will be a part of tight-knit team of experts in system engineering working on code that defines company infrastructure and collaborating with software and QA testers on new and ongoing projects. We believe in genuine ownership. The folks making decisions on systems infrastructure are also implementing them
Roles and Responsibilities:
- The ability to thrive in a high-energy, high-growth, fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
- Strong organizational skills with high attention to detail.
- Have excellent communication skills – written, verbal, presentation and interpersonal.
- Hands-on; completes tasks and dependable.
- Strong team player who can build strong relationships at all levels of the organization.
- Above all, ethical, fair and of high integrity.
Our mission is to bring Cisco Video applications to the Cloud, this isn’t refactoring some 90’s legacy code to run on AWS. This is an opportunity to re-define the future of video capture, processing, delivery and consumption from the established market leader. You’ll be part of a dynamic team and be the type of person who has a track record in building and shipping products, comfortable eating your own dog food and wearing many hats in decisional experiences leveraging Cloud Technologies for the Service Provider, Entertainment and Media market. This is a start-up group within Cisco tasked with building the solution process of planning, designing and delivering the platforms, tools, and services to our customers. This role has the following responsibilities:
• On-call response to escalated monitoring system alarms and trouble tickets
• Review and improve ‘run-books’ to standardize the operation of the systems
• Install, operate and troubleshoot advanced clouds using OpenStack
• Install, operate and troubleshoot hardware systems in data centers to support private clouds
• Provide expert OpenStack advice and support for remote private and hybrid-private clouds
• Automate installation, operation and corrective actions using salt, chef, puppet
• Write and maintain scripts to support operations, development, and testing of advanced software
5. Linux System Administrator
Q – Malibu, CA
Job Description:
As an experienced Linux Systems Administrator, you will be charged with building and maintaining enterprise-class and mission critical infrastructure for Dun & Bradstreet using Linux, AWS, and Salt Stack Configuration Management. The Systems Administrator will oversee the maintenance, installation, optimization, and consistent up-time of all dedicated and cloud instances owned and managed by the Company. This is a highly technical role and requires solid competence of all aspects of software and cloud infrastructure. You will be a part of tight-knit team of experts in system engineering working on code that defines company infrastructure and collaborating with software and QA testers on new and ongoing projects. We believe in genuine ownership. The folks making decisions on systems infrastructure are also implementing them
Roles and Responsibilities:
- The ability to thrive in a high-energy, high-growth, fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
- Strong organizational skills with high attention to detail.
- Have excellent communication skills – written, verbal, presentation and interpersonal.
- Hands-on; completes tasks and dependable.
- Strong team player who can build strong relationships at all levels of the organization.
- Above all, ethical, fair and of high integrity.
