Cloud Platform Engineer

University education (Bachelor's degree)

English - Upper intermediate (B2)

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What professional skills will you bring along:

The candidate must have a University degree in Computer Science or Information Systems with a real more than 3 years’ hands-on experience in data center infrastructure and virtualization technologies with focus on one of the following knowledge areas: x86 hard-ware, networking hardware and SDN, Storage or Cloud OS.

Ideal candidate also must have the following knowledge:

SysAdmin - linux configuration and troubleshooting (ubuntu, centos) – advanced skillset required (3Ys 5Ys experience at least from daily operations)

KVM Virtualization (Ubuntu preferred)

Openstack administration (preferred Canonical distribution incl. Juju and MaaS  – Mitaka or Ocata or Ussuri) – proven daily practice  - 1Y

Git as code management (or similar tool set – preferred Gitlab)

GitOPS  - automation (CI/CD) and IaC operations and troubleshooting, scripting – ability to use existing code for daily operations tasks and activities, ability to report issues, ideally propose solutions for DEV stage

basic understanding of datacenter networking - knowledge of DC protocols basis (VLAN, VXLAN, EVPN)

baremetal (x86 servers – Lenovo and HP portfolio preferred) operations and maintenance (leading of RMA, 2nd level support)

Different common infrastructure DevOps tools and utilities, scripting languages

• • Bash
  • Python 2 and 3 preferred
  • Ansible
  • Basic SQL knowledge
  • Git (Gitlab Enterprise)

Considered as a “plus” at candidates:

Some of private/public cloud knowledge (OpenStack based, AWS, Azure, GCP)

Docker, Kubernetes

SDN (Contrail 3.2.x or 4.1.x)

 

Hard skills requirements:

Excellent understanding and practical experience in at least one of the following infrastructure domains:

IT hardware: x86 server architectures.

Virtualization - Hypervisors (KVM), SDN and network acceleration technologies, e.g. SR-IOV

Networking: Data center network equipment for spine, TOR and BOR switches from major vendors (Juniper, Cisco, Huawei) and SDN controllers (e.g. OpenCon-trail)

Storage: solutions for block and object storage including high-availability con-cepts, e.g. Ceph.

Cloud OS: opensource and commercial solutions, e.g. OpenStack or VMWare

 

Good general understanding of cloud platform architectures:

Compute, Network and Storage Infrastructure

Cloud OS, Linux/Unix Operating Systems and Hypervisors

IP Services

Public/Private Cloud Architectures

CEPH

CI/CD processes and tools (e.g. Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Git, Ansible etc.)

Knowledge of network hardware, TCP/IP, routing, switching, network security

Candidates with relevant certification preferred, e.g. CCNP/Data Center

 

What social Skills are expected:

Self-motivated

Highly collaborative, ability to share knowledge

Flexibility to travel (after pandemic)

Efficient communication

 

What can you expect working with us?

We take a long-term commitment when it comes to our employees. You will develop your career working in one or more innovation projects of Deutsche Telekom Group, exploring the latest trends and technologies which enable the product development process. You will grow not only your knowledge, but also your network, by interacting with a wide group of experts in areas such as Software Development, AI and Customer Experience.

 

What else we offer

• Open and friendly working environment
• Competitive remuneration package
• Complex benefit scheme