Arrows Group/Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Cloud Stack Infrastructure Engineer - Amsterdam, LAMP/High availability/High traffic/Cloud/Scrum/Agile
For one of our main clients we are exclusively recruiting for Infrastructure engineers to be based in Amsterdam. The organisation is a growing international hosting company working with large enterprises such as Heineken, Mozilla Firefox etc. They have over 18,000 customers around the globe to which they offer on-demand, word class solutions through their own network and cloud services.
They have skilled engineers in their Amsterdam office working on tackling scalability, cloud and automation challenges. The Development department consists of around 100 engineers, working in small scrum teams. Each of the teams is responsible for a different area of their software and infrastructure landscape, covering data centre automation, product research & development (Bare Metal Automation Servers, CDN, Cloud and Storage) and Front End implementations for their websites and customer portal.
As an infrastructure engineer you will be part of the Cloud team. This team consists of around 7 engineers. 2 VMware engineers, 1 Azure engineer, 1 PHP Developers, 1 Cloud Stack engineer.
Day to day tasks:
Develop, Maintain and support the Apache CloudStack infrastructure
3rd line incident support
To ensure the availability of Linux-based virtualization platforms
Focus on problem-solving, being able to suggest improvements
Regular on-call duty
Working closely with other departments
Work in alignment with the existing processes for Release-, Incident- and Problem Management
Report on key performance indicators for storage platforms (performance, availability, capacity utilization)
Identify and propose solutions for improvements or structural problems
Our ideal candidate has:
Demonstrable experience of Linux System Administration - certifications are desirable
Good understanding of other disciplines such as networks and Scripting
Experience with nagios-based monitoring systems
Experience with Linux Kernel Internals and general operating system concepts.
Experience with Open-source virtualization management frameworks, such as Cloud Stack, OpenStack, onApp, SolusVM, etc.
Ability to trace (programming) code - Python, PHP, C, Java (preferred)
Preferably the candidate should also have experience with enterprise storage systems, such as NetApp and distributed object storage eg Ceph
Ability to suggest improvements to the existing framework (preferred)
Good written and spoken English (Dutch would be an advantage)
Basic knowledge of ISP related technologies such as Servers' hardware and cloud technologies is a plus
Self-motivated and able to prioritize, schedule and meet deadlines
Willingness to take up 24/7 responsibility for their product (regular on-call duty)
What's in it for you?
Be part of one of the world's largest hosting brands, working in a top international team of highly skilled engineers that are both innovative and fun to work with from 35 Nationalities!
Because of their continuous growth and ambitions there are loads of opportunities to grow! Whether it be on a Product Owner or Architect level.
Competitive salary with secondary benefits such as a defined contribution pension plan, collective healthcare plan, annual bonus, 25 days of paid time-off, visits to (inter)national events
Employment Type: Permanent
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