Job Summary
The Information Systems Engineer is responsible for supporting the reliability, development, configuration and deployment of systems that provide OVHcloud core services. As a member of the Core Services team, this position is critical in nature and exposed to various scenarios that will continue to expand the individual’s skillset.
Candidates should be good communicators, capable of self-starting, and driven to execute in a fast-paced and evolving environment. Candidates should have familiarity with the cloud hosting industry, and data center physical resource concepts.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Maintain site reliability in a production environment.
- Support and contribute to software development projects.
- Ensure successful deployment, configuration, and support of core OVHcloud infrastructure.
- Monitor systems availability and performance.
- Continuous learning of technologies, both new and old, to maintain ideal system functionality.
- Work with datasets, API, relational databases and/or event buses.
- Identify and troubleshoot problems in supported systems.
- Work effectively and build relationships with teams in non-overlapping time zones.
- Support user acceptance testing.
Minimum Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in Linux/Unix Administration.
- Experience or exposure to large scale operations support and remediation.
- Fundamental networking and storage knowledge.
- Familiarity with virtualization and containers technology.
- Experience working with relational DB’s.
- Experience consuming and supporting RESTful API’s.
- Experience with scripting and or a static language (i.e., Perl, Python, GoLang, Ruby, Java, C#, Bash).
- Experience with and knowledge of Puppet, Ansible, Terraform and Kubernetes is highly desired.
Skillset breakdown
25% - Coding (ability to complete relatively simple assignments when needed ,read existing code, and understand how to patch it)
25% - Linux/VM’s/containers and command line
30% - SRE / service uptime maintenance (proactive SRE mindset, looking for holes and identifying fixes to avoid potential outages)
20% - QA testing
Working Conditions
Standard office environment
Company Description – About OVHcloud
OVHcloud US is a subsidiary of OVHcloud, a global cloud provider that specializes in delivering industry-leading performance and cost-effective solutions to better manage, secure, and scale data. OVHcloud US delivers bare metal servers, hosted private cloud, hybrid and public cloud solutions. OVHcloud manages 32 data centers across 12 sites on four continents, manufacturing its own servers, building its own data centers and deploying its own fiber-optic global network to achieve maximum efficiency. Through the OVHcloud spirit of challenging the status quo, the company brings freedom, security and innovation to solve data challenges – today and tomorrow. With a 21-year heritage, OVHcloud is committed to developing responsible technology and strives to be the driving force behind the next cloud evolution. https://us.ovhcloud.com.
EEO Statement
OVHcloud is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, color, sex (including childbirth, breast feeding, and related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, uniform service member and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws.
Top Skills
What We Do
OVHcloud is a global player and the leading European cloud provider operating 400,000 servers within over 30 data centers across 4 continents.
For more than 20 years, OVHcloud has been leveraging an integrated model that provides full control of our value chain, from designing its servers to managing its data centers through to orchestrating its fiber-optic network. This unique approach enables OVHcloud to cover, independently, the full spectrum of use cases for its 1.6 million customers across 140 countries.
OVHcloud now offers customers latest-generation solutions that combine high performance, predictable pricing and full data sovereignty to support their unfettered growth.
The group employs more than 2,200 people and our teams are growing rapidly. To support our vision, we are constantly looking for new talents who share our values and ambitions.
Our motto: be open, be sustainable, be free in the cloud!
