DevOps Storage Engineer

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The Cloud Services Infrastructure Engineering team is looking for a DevOps Storage Engineer who is passionate about all aspects of the implementation and deployment of modern storage infrastructure services in support of VMWare, OpenStack, Object Store to name just a few. In this role you will be working on our next generation infrastructure platform to support Blackboard’s educational products. An ideal candidate loves to push the boundaries of existing technologies and is eager to work on cutting edge solutions deployed at massive scale.

- Engineer automation and deployment tools for every part of our storage systems - Engage cool vendors to identify and test products and technologies to help drive innovation into our infrastructure. - Expand automation of our storage management leveraging NetApp and jbods under all our platforms utilizing predominantly NFS and object based protocols. - Provide capacity planning, performance analysis, develop disaster recovery plans, lead efforts towards storage consolidation and identify storage growth, manage configurations of storage devices and software. - Provide technical expertise, guidance and strategic recommendations to develop a roadmap that ensures that the current and planned technical solutions are compatible with the company's business needs and strategic objectives. - Be able to provide Capacity planning for Storage dynamic expansion and Storage auto-provisioning experience with NetApp.

- Have experience with cloud platforms (VMware,OpenStack,AWS,etc) production deployments. - Have experience automating things at scale. - Have a solid understanding of operating systems, especially Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat). - Ability to draw simple shapes on flat surfaces to illustrate complex topics. - Teach us something we don’t know. - Be driven! **Things we work with:** - RedHat, Ubuntu - OpenStack - Swift, Ceph or other object storage - CloudBolt - VMware vSphere5, vSphere Web Services SDK, and vCloud Director. - KVM, ESXi, Azure - AWS - Bash (or similar), Perl, Python, Ruby - REST APIs, JSON, and SOAP XML. - NetApp CDOT - Git, Chef, Stash - JIRA with Project Tracking and Code Integration - Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL,