For one of our clients in Amsterdam we are looking for a lead storage engineer with scripting skills. This is a new and influential role that demands a high level of creativity and a genuine passion for new technology and methods.
You will be working in a team of highly-skilled technologists, this role is responsible for maintaining the mission critical cloud platform of our client.
As a DevOps Engineer – Storage Lead you will be expected to take the lead in maintaining and improving hybrid storage solutions used in the platform. This means fixing day-to-day issues but also developing and implementing mid to long term plans to improve and simplify the management of the storage layer by e.g. consolidation, replacement, decommissioning, and automation.
There will be a mix of different types of storage technologies to manage, which gives you an interesting challenge and the ability to make a real difference in the day-to-day operations. You will also participate in global and European projects that require guidance and technical leadership from platform DevOps engineers.
Although your primary focus will be storage and automation, there is more than enough opportunity to widen your scope to interesting technologies in the virtualization (RHEV/KVM/VMWare), networking, and application stack.
Storage skills
You have serious enterprise production experience with at least one of these storage solutions and are willing to dive in to the others:
- GlusterFS
- EMC Unity
- NetApp
- SuperMicro
What we expect from you
- Sound knowledge and experience in local, distributed, and centralized (DAS/SAN/NAS) storage connectivity and configuration on operating systems: Windows and Linux)
- You understand very well that keeping a system operational 24/7/365 means automation, smart design, and rigorous testing
- Experience in monitoring and troubleshooting performance issues
- Experience implementing and migrating production storage systems
- You experience using configuration management tools such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, and/or scripting before to automate repetitive tasks
- You are comfortable dealing with physical devices in the datacentre
How you operate
- Strong pro-active communication and social skills
- Opinionated but are open to other opinions and experience
- Excellent written and spoken English
- You are comfortable taking the lead
- You are committed to get things done
- Insatiable hunger to expand technical skills
- You believe having a positive attitude makes life easier
What we offer
- An interesting international company culture
- A pretty sweet view in our new office building
- Interesting projects and technology that will allow you to gain new skills and experience
- Great salary and secundary conditions
