SR Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineer

Consilio is looking for a highly motivated individual that enjoys learning at a fast pace and doesn’t mind hard work.  There is always work to do, but you are rewarded with a great culture and a great opportunity to grow.  You will be required to work with a global team as a full-time Senior Automation Engineer, with a heavy emphasis on Infrastructure.  Individuals well-suited for this position are those that specialize in the administration, design, development, and deployment of cross-functional automation systems. Strong collaborative and intrapersonal skills are preferred. 

You will leverage modern practices and technologies to improve, streamline and automate existing workflows with the opportunity to help us deliver innovative solutions for the future. The products of this team are leveraged by a global team that operates 24x7. 

• Must be able to take the lead on Kubernetes infrastructure setup and automation deployments of clusters, nodes, pods, containers 

• Lead bringing cloud management techniques and technologies to our on-premises datacenters globally 

• Effective communication. Whether working as a group or independently. 

• Constant learning of new technologies to improve on-premises with cloud concepts 

• Proactive administration and maintenance of managed systems. 

• Following a standard change control protocol. 

• Creation and maintenance of documentation that covers the lifecycle of such systems. 

• Lifecycle management of the various components used. 

• Must lead doing prototypes and research new concepts or technologies for use within automation. 

• Analyze and report on requirements in response to projects or tasks assigned to the team.  

• Implementing new components and/or scripts for use within our automation platform. 

• Project, task, and ticket management. 

• Train members of the team, and of other teams, on technologies used by automation. 

• Provide meaningful assistance with any other assigned duties that may arise. 

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or equivalent degree/experience. 

• Demonstrated understanding of leading complex problem-solving situations across multiple technologies 

• 5+ years of automation experience in platforms such as Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Salt Stack/Salt Config, vRealize, Aria, Catalog, Cloud Assembly, Orchestrator, Service Broker, Ansible or others. 

• Advanced scripting proficiency - languages such as (not limited to) PowerShell, Python, Javascript, and or Bash. 

• Experience with VMWare PowerCLI for mission critical and/or long-running workflows. 

• Reasonable understanding of VMWare specific concepts such as  

• Clusters, DRS, Distributed Switches, Policies, SDDC, vROPs, vMotion, and Container Volumes. 

• Reasonable understanding of cloud platforms such as, Azure, AWS, but also Containers and Kubernetes 

• Moderate experience in common ticketing platforms such as Service Desk or Service Now. 

It would be even better if you had: 

• Expert knowledge of cloud platforms such as, Azure, AWS 

• Expert knowledge of Containers and Kubernetes in an on-premises environment 

• Advanced VMWare platform experience with long running workflows 

• Advanced Aria experience building workflow automations and Aria Infrastructure setup on-premises 
• Advanced knowledge of general operating and storage systems such as (Windows/Linux NetApp/Pure)