Cloud Solutions Engineer

Job description

2818748
City

San Ramon
Career Level

Experienced
Relocation Assistance

No
Business

GE Digital
Function

Digital Technology
Country

United States
U.S. State, China or Canada Provinces

California
Postal Code

94583-9130
Role Summary/Purpose

The Cloud Solutions Engineer will concentrate on the design and implementation of solutions to enhance agility and core services with GE’s Global Private Cloud based on OpenStack. Focus areas are the critical evaluation, and creation of native/non-native platform services, deployment automation and provisioning tools. You will help Lead the effort on new IaaS initiatives by delivering innovative and high SLA services solutions to internal business units in a globally available private Cloud.
Essential Responsibilities

·  Design, implement and support cloud infrastructure based on technologies such as OpenStack, Docker Ansible and Chef to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of IaaS.

·  Work closely with Cloud Architects and to influence as well as to proactively participate in architecture design, technical review, PoC of new solutions, creation and articulate standards and methods for large-scale IaaS.

·  Design and build advanced automated Infrastructure deployment frameworks.

·  Deliver new features, extending and maintaining OpenStack capabilities, improving operational reliability, security mechanisms, or improving scalability/ performance.

·  Provide technical supports to the day-to-day operation activities to ensure high quality IaaS operations.

Qualifications/Requirements

·  Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)

·  A minimum of 2 years of professional experience

Desired Characteristics

·  3+ years of cloud system engineering experience.

·  Proficient in Python, Java and Shell scripting. Experience in Ruby is highly desirable.

·  Experience working with Unix/Linux systems from kernel to module and beyond, with experience working with system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols.

·  Experience working with virtualization technologies, particularly OpenStack and/or VMWare. Working knowledge in KVM and/or XEN is a plus. Usage knowledge in AWS is also a plus.

·  Experience with container and container orchestration technologies such as Docker and Mesos is a plus.

·  Experience with Software Defined Network (SDN) such as Contrail, OpenFlow with OVS, VXLAN is highly desirable. Exposures in L2/L3 networking protocols including TCP/IP, GRE, VXLAN, MPLS, OSPF and BGP is required.

·  Hands-on knowledge in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

·  In-depth knowledge including code review of open source cloud technologies such as Openstack and/or Docker.

·  Experience in Linux OS including CentOs and Ubuntu. Strong system administration knowledge in trouble shooting processes, threads, concurrency issues, locks, mutexes, semaphores and inter process communication.

·  Systematic problem solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive.

·  Strong communication and collaboration skills.

·  Expertise level experience on Hardware Load balancers ( F5/Netscaler) and Software load balancers ( HAproxy)

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About Us

GE is the world's Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.
GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is anEqual Opportunity Employer . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen.