[ALE-jobs] FWD: Cloud Computing Sr. Applications/Systems Engineer

[Wolf Halton]

Hi ALE-er,
Are you looking for a cloud engineer job?
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Hi Michael,

Per our conversation, I understand that you are working right now.
Congrats! Do you know of anyone who can do this job?  If you know of anyone
who is interested/qualified, please feel free to pass on my contact info as
you see fit.


Jade




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*Primary Project Location:* ATLANTA, GA  30308

*Job Description:* JOB DESCRIPTION
Cloud Computing Sr. Applications/Systems Engineer

JOB SUMMARY:
Successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining the stability and
supportability of cloud solutions. Candidate will be a member of an
integrated operations team to launch and support Cloud platforms and
enablers. Candidate will directly interface with development teams,
vendors, product, sales and customers. Candidate will engineer operational
requirements, test cases, technical documentation provide operational
support after launch. This is a client-facing technical position, so – in
addition to demonstrated technical acumen - written and verbal
communication skills, diplomacy, and the ability to work well under
pressure are required.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Monitor, maintain, & support cloud solutions
• Ensure standard processes exist for systems installation, configuration,
patching, and upgrading.
• Ability to provide documentation and create MOPs /SMOPS for the
supporting technologies
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment and flexibility to change course
as required
• Develop guidelines for systems monitoring to ensure maximum availability,
uptime, and performance.
• Research, troubleshoot, and resolve system performance issues and outages.
• Ensure documentation standards are created and adhered to.
• Ensure that security procedures are implemented and enforced.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex problems to ensure minimal disruption of
mission-critical applications.
• Maintains current knowledge of relevant hardware and software
applications as assigned.
• Support of web portals, orchestration, platform, application, API,
network and monitoring needs. Platform support (monitoring capabilities,
performance tuning, capacity planning, and maintaining overall service and
platform health).
• Validating and supporting new cloud solutions. This involves UAT, ORT
testing and driving operational requirements. Outputs include Test Plans,
Test Cases, Test Execution, Production Verification, Developer and
Administrative Portals,
• Maintaining overall platform stability, security, and supportability
• Develop operational requirements for solutions to complex issues,
including those which require extensive research, analysis, critical
thinking, collaboration, and precision in the execution in order to resolve
• Review Life Cycle changes, release management and feature adds
• Engineer detailed change documentation, risk assess and execute
(MOPs/SMOPs)
• Present recommendations to developers, vendors and product owners
• Tier-3-level support to Service Assurance team (on call 24x7)
• Facilitate post-outage reviews (POR), manage Service Incident Reporting
(SIR), develop and deliver Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to management and to
the customer
• Act as quality-gate for new solutions providing operational testing and
requirements
• Providing technical mentoring to peers and partner organizations
• Developing and maintaining all technical documentation related to the
cloud solutions and applications (SMOPs/MOPs, System documentation,
troubleshooting guides, customer-specific knowledge base, etc)
• Overall customer relationship management

REQUIRED:

• 5+ years systems administration experience managing enterprise
Unix/Linux/Oracle environment
• 3+ years in a 24by7 production operations role supporting IaaS, PaaS or
SaaS offerings in a highly available multi-data center environment.
• Scripting (Shell, Perl, CGI, etc.), SSH, HTTP/S, Networking, web hosting
technologies, some flavor of Java technologies (Java, JDBC, Jserv, JBOSS).
• VMWare ESX 4.1
• mySQL DBA
• Load Blancers
• BEA Weblogic cluster with Veritas HA Foundation Manager
• Apache
• Java
• Symantec NetBackup Clien
• Knowledge of web development (SOAP, REST)
Strong experience in interaction technologies with Midtier : Web Service
APIs, REST, etc

Desired Skills:
• Experience support network components load balancers, switches, firewalls
etc
• Knowledge of databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Experience with vCloud Director, vSphere
• Cloud platform experience (SFDC, Workday, Google) a strong positive.
• Balance of strong tactical problem-solving skills and analytical skills.
• Strong understanding of the integration between mobile applications,
servers, and networks

Please ensure tht all candidates know that this is a 24X7 assignment and
FLEXIBILITY is required.

Manager is looking for candidates who have worn multiple hats - launched
new products (from start to finish), are open to new experiences/learnings
- self starter and has excellent communication skills.

*Job Category:* Information Technology

*Project Name:* Cloud Incubaiton Team

*Project Description:* Operational Support for Cloud operations

Customer Facing assignment

  Skills Skill Experience Need 1)  Unix/RHCE Expert Required 2)  Perl, PHP,
Ruby, Python, JavaScript Expert Required 3)  Tomcat, Apache/Websphere,
Webservices Expert Required 4)  Experience with large-scale distributed
systems an Expert Required 5)  Linux networking and storage Intermediate
Desired 6)  VMware ESX/ESX 4.1 Intermediate Desired 7)  Communication
(written and Oral) Expert Required 8)  vCloud Director Expert Desired 9)  CCNA/
CCNP Certification Expert Desired 10)  Linux Expert Required

*Resume Submittal Deadline:* 12/19/2011

*Daily Start Time:* 8:00 AM

*Daily End Time:* 5:00 PM

*Contract To Hire:* No

*Will You Conduct a Phone Interview?:* Yes

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