Lead DevOps Engineer - Wheat Ridge, United States - DataDirect Networks Inc

Description

Overview:

DDN Storage is seeking great candidates to join our dynamic team of passionate customer-enabling technologists

This is an incredible opportunity to be part of a company that has been at the forefront of AI and high-performance data storage innovation for over two decades. DDN Storage is a global market leader renowned for powering many of the world's most demanding AI data centers, in industries ranging from life sciences and healthcare to financial services, autonomous cars, Government, academia, research and manufacturing.

"DDN's A3I solutions are transforming the landscape of AI infrastructure." IDC

The real differentiator is DDN. I never hesitate to recommend DDN. DDN is the de facto name for AI Storage in high performance environments - ~ Marc Hamilton VP, Solutions Architecture & Engineering | NVIDIA

DDN Storage is the global leader in AI and multi-cloud data management at scale. Our cutting-edge storage and data management solutions are designed to accelerate AI workloads, enabling organizations to extract maximum value from their data. With a proven track record of performance, reliability, and scalability, DDN Storage empowers businesses to tackle the most challenging AI and data-intensive workloads with confidence.

Our success is driven by our unwavering commitment to innovation, customer-centricity, and a team of passionate professionals who bring their expertise and dedication to every project. This is a chance to make a significant impact at a company that is shaping the future of AI and data management.

Our commitment to innovation, customer success, and market leadership makes this an exciting and rewarding role for a driven professional looking to make a lasting impact in the world of AI and data storage.

DDNStorage is the world leader in high performance and massively scalable data management and storage solutions that accelerate business results and scientific insights for data-centric organizations worldwide. Our unified, end-to-end platform uniquely addresses the tiered storage and large-scale data management demands of mixed workloads, multiple collaborative data centers and Web and cloud environments. Across traditional and commercial high-performance markets, customers rely on DDN Storage to solve the most demanding big data problems in industries such as cloud, online content and social networking, security and intelligence, life sciences, finance, energy, and media production. This is a hybrid role and will need to go into the Wheatridge, CO office as needed.

We are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer for our DevOps Infinia Storage engineering team who will assist with designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable backend infrastructure that is used for the QA, Support and Engineering teams product development.

Responsibilities for this role include but are not limited to:

• Understands the importance of monitoring and can implement solutions that will actively notify and try to correct critical infrastructure problems.
• Comfortable working with scalable backend infrastructure for QA, Support and Engineering based on VM and container virtualization technologies like KVM, VMware, Docker, Kubernetes, and KubeVirt.
• Enjoys working on computer networks including switches, VPNs, routers, and other physical hardware within a self-managed lab environment.
• Creates complex CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Enterprise through the automated building of code, deploying to multiple environments including bare metal servers, containers on bare metal servers and Kubernetes pods, running repeatable tests in different configuration.
• Comfortable using container and orchestration technologies to provide enterprise framework of deploying containers and running services at scale.
• Debug high level failures that an end user might see like service not starting down through the various layers of automation to find root cause in a complex lab environment.
• Leverage programming knowledge to write production level code in Linux Shell, Python, and Go where needed.
• Occasionally perform emergent data center work onsite at our Lab located in Wheat Ridge, CO. and assist in the remediation of critical services and service outages.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related technical field with a minimum of 7+ years of relevant industry experience
• Demonstrated knowledge in working within a self-managed lab environment with physical servers, switches, drives, cables, and data center related tools.
• Expertise in Linux systems administration, including managing servers, operating systems, and network configurations.
• Proven expertise deploying, maintaining, and extending GitHub Actions or similar CICD environments and their usage.
• Expert in using deployment and automation tools to quickly bring up new systems and recovery failed systems and environments including Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, and MAAS.
• Strong grasp and demonstratable experience in orchestration technologies like Kubernetes and Docker
• Working knowledge of Configuration Management such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, etc.
• Strong working knowledge of Python, Linux Shell, Ansible languages required, Go strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of GCP, Azure, and / or other cloud and cluster-based Infrastructure

Compensation is based on your specific location, and, for this location the target is approx. $130k plus an annual bonus. Depending on skills and experience.

DDN has a very strong orientation towards these 4 characteristics and any successful employee will demonstrate these capabilities:

Self-Starter - Takes independent action to identify and solve problems. Seeks out relevant information needed to make decisions. Gets involved with new initiatives.

Success/Achievement Orientation - Delivers quality results consistently. Targets, achieves (or exceeds) measurable results. Sets challenging goals, focuses on critical priorities, and is accountable.

Problem Solving - Recognizes problems and responds with a systematic assessment that identifies and addresses cause of issue. Practical, realistic, and resourceful.

Innovative - Builds and improves key business processes that enhance the effectiveness of DDN. Generates new ideas, challenges the status quo, and solves problems creatively.

DDN takes pride in developing and promoting talent as an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. By fostering a diverse business environment, DDN welcomes opportunities to learn from each other, our customers, investors, suppliers, and business partners.