PaaS Systems Engineer

Netcracker is a forward-looking, software technology company providing mission-critical solutions to communication service providers around the globe. Every year since our founding in 1993, we have demonstrated significant growth, strong profitability, and highly credible thought leadership. The reason we continue to thrive in today’s highly challenging and competitive market is simple: our ability to recruit and retain the best talent in the industry. If you’re ready to move your career forward and be recognized for the unique talent and skillset you bring, take a look at the opportunities below and apply for a position PaaS Systems Engineer.

Responsibilities:

Maintaining and operating CI/CD pipelines;
Troubleshooting okd/k8s clusters and cloud-deployed applications;
Taking care of department’s management and monitoring facilities, participating in their development (enabling them to do more through committing golang, python, ansible and ruby code);
Working with project(s)’ team(s) to identify their needs and break down IT-related tasks.

Required Background

Having an experience of working in international IT company for at least 1 year, and therefore having an ability to communicate with colleagues in English (mostly to colleagues from India) for having discussions and reviewing wide range of IT-related issues together, make a technical knowledge transfer (ot both directions!); English skills should be well enough for communicating on professional topics
Having an experience of working as a supporting task force for a few development teams as IT and/or DevOps engineer, being able to address and aggregate their needs in parallel
Having an experience of working with somehow organized IT-related requests queue (applying policies, SLAs or doing organization in other way you are able to handle this with), e.g. being a part of HelpDesk or an IT engineer in a team which supports few development teams

Required Skills

Knowledge of how to use base Linux operating system binaries for troubleshooting system & user processes – and how to understand their output
Using contemporary common configuration utilities such as ansible & puppet or having basic knowledge of their purpose and mode of operation
Using contemporary and legacy monitoring utilities like Zabbix, icinga, collectd, Prometheus, heapster
Sparse understanding of conceptions of software defined networks, cloud native applications and Platform as a Service
Basic usage or sparse understanding of how to use infrastructure management tools of Microsoft System Center, Hyper-V hypervisor, Openstack Horizon, Openstack CLI client to provision, manage and troubleshoot virtual machines and corresponding infrastructure; any experience with any another virtual infrastructure management system will be enough (e.g. vSphere, Citrix)
Basic skills of troubleshooting today’s traditional network issues of IPv4, TCP, UDP and IPv4 routing and packet filtering (i.e. determining hosts availability, investigating connectivity issues between Linux hosts)
Basic or good experience with k8s and/or Openshift
Basic or good experience with Docker daemon maintenance, understanding Docker image conception and mode of Docker daemon operation

Nice to Have

Strong knowledge of cloud services’ models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, FaaS, fogging)
Experience of being user or/and administrator of a virtual infrastructure management system (Openstack, KVM, Microsoft System Center or any other well-known infrastrucutres)
Understanding of contemporary methods of software product development
Experience of establishing or/and maintaining continuous integration or/and delivery (CI/CD) of a software solution
Hands on Jenkins, ansible
A knowledge of existing SDN solutions or/and k8s/Openshift network plugins

We offer

Opportunities for career development
Professional growth in the international business environment
Medical insurance for employees
Friendly atmosphere, sports activities and corporate events
Salary will be discussed individually with the successful candidate