Virtela is the world's largest independent managed network, security, and cloud services company. Virtela offers an award-winning suite of services - including managed networks, security, application acceleration, and IT infrastructure management - to market-leading companies around the world, such as Kraft, Honeywell, HanesBrands, Paramount Pictures, Red Hat and IBM. The company is known for its outstanding service innovations and customer support, which have been recognized by more than 50 awards in the last two years alone. Virtela offers unparalleled geographic reach to more than 190 countries through its partnership with more than 1,000 service providers. The company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado with globally distributed Network Operations Centers in the U.S., India, and the Philippines.
Virtela offers an attractive compensation and competitive benefits packages ranging from health, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, 401(K) with employer match. Virtela is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse workforce.
Location: Denver, CO
Key Responsibilities
* Perform tasks such as systems planning, configuring systems, installing software, providing guidance in technical meetings, defining standards, assisting with research and design for architectural issues, assisting/providing status updates, attending project meetings and implementation support of new applications
* Supporting all of Virtela's Enterprise applications. Support primarily java developers, applications integrators, DBAs, Global Operations Centers, and numerous scripting languages (Bash, Perl, Ruby, Python, and Java )
* Automating and improving existing processes
* Managing development, testing and production VM and physical server environments
* Acting as a key member (support/consult/lead) on various application's BSS/OSS projects
* Managing capacity, develop process, design systems architecture and perform technology refreshes
* Skills & Attributes
* Strong customer service attitude with superior people skills
* Highly self-motivated. Willingness to take ownership of tasks and drive them to completion
* Strong skills for automation of repeatable work
* Able to lead troubleshooting, optimization, and performance tuning of applications, databases, and Unix systems
* Mastery of GNU/Linux (Redhat/CentOS/Fedora/Ubuntu), expertise with Logical Volume Managers, network troubleshooting, bash, Python and/or Perl programming
* Knowledge of Internet services, systems monitoring and management, and open source tools with emphasis on SMTP, HTTP, LDAP, SQL, and DNS
* Ability to perform 24x7x365 on-call duty with other systems team members
* Strong SAN experience. iSCSI experience is a plus
* OpenStack and CEPH distributed file system experience is a plus
* Cobbler, PXE boot, Kickstart and Spacewalk/RHN Satellite server experience a plus
* Cisco/ Dell / IBM / Sun hardware experience and knowledge. Experience with Blade hardware is a plus
Minimum Requirements
* Strong CentOS and Ubuntu management skills
* Superior puppet skills. Experience writing manifests is required. Hiera, PuppetDB, and Puppet 3 experience are a plus
* Strong experience with the KVM and VMware hypervisors. Xen and HyperV experience are a plus
* Strong documentation skills
* Willingness to work out of system team's work queue
* Understanding of Systems design and the OSI model
* Strong general automation skills. This includes scripting, automated monitoring, and automated VM deployments
* Strong Subversion and/or Git VCS skills
* Experience with Nagios or Zabbix monitoring software, specifically writing scripts to extend monitoring capabilities
* Linux cluster experience
* Hands on experience with Solaris
Please send resumes to Jayme Garcia at jgarcia@virtela.net.
