Infrastructure DevOps Engineer III - Linux

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Who We Are :

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But where does all that information go? Enter the world of data centers.

Data centers are experiencing once-in-a-generation demand growth, driven by cloud adoption and the AI revolution, Jon Gray, President & COO of Blackstone.

In the fast-paced world of data, QTS is dedicated to leading the industry in a thoughtful and intentional way. At QTS, we are Purpose Driven and moving communities forward.

At QTS, we believe that how we deliver our services is equally as important as the service we deliver. Our people play a vital role in our company’s culture, innovation and growth, and we are deeply committed to those who affect or are affected by our business.

Our people are knowledgeable, resourceful, innovative self-starters, and can accomplish great things when working together.

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Infrastructure DevOps Engineer III - Linux

This role primarily focuses on utilizing and building code to enable automation, visibility, and reliability maturity for QTS’ infrastructure and applications.

This role will utilize state of the art technology to deploy, automate, manage, and troubleshoot all of QTS’ Technology Infrastructure.

As part of an Agile team, this role will work cross departmentally on enterprise-wide technology projects in support of QTS’ ongoing digital transformation goals.

This role requires a broad understanding of various technologies and the ability to think creatively and use advanced problem-solving skills to create innovative solutions to any QTS technology problem to include Data Center Infrastructure Management, Technology Operations, Service Delivery Platform, and Enterprise IT.

This position requires skills, motivation, and experience to serve as a member of a highly functional team to deliver superior, predictable and reliable services in a dynamic IT service provider environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Streamline automation, visibility, and reliability improvements for QTS technology. Able to work across multiple programming languages, third party tools and integrations, and software and hardware.
• Establish and meet SLOs on reliability for QTS products and infrastructure.
• Ensure that operational technologies are integrated within QTS monitoring tools to increase visibility of potential issues to proactively reduce risk and maximize the availability of IT infrastructure and services while improving Mean Time to Restore during outages.
• Diagnose, troubleshoot and resolve external customer and QTS Systems issues.
• Facilitates meetings to determine feature design requirements from stakeholders.
• Supports organizational change management by providing platform training.
• Supports platform roadmap planning.
• Manage vendors and evaluate new technologies.
• Plan and document MOPs and engineering standards. Manage lifecycle of assigned devices and provide associated budget inputs.
• Evangelize and implement an automation first mindset. Brief executives regularly on improvements.
• Research issues using multiple sources as needed; take direction as needed to quickly resolve high severity issues.
• Work cross-departmentally on technology problems that digitally transform QTS.
• Work with MQTT, Apache Kafka, or similar technologies for event-driven architectures.
• Understand, implement, configure, and maintain database technologies such as Cassandra and InfluxDB to handle a variety of data.
• Proactively analyze system performance and identify improvement opportunities.
• Create / update infrastructure documentation to include environment technical diagrams, workbooks, etc.
• Write / update or review Change Requests, MOPs, and similar documentation.
• Provide training and mentorship to Level I and II Cloud Engineers.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of systems engineering experience or a similar role.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience writing code with scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell, etc.) and Ansible playbooks for automating tasks.
• Proficiency in systems administration for Linux / Unix and Windows.
• Familiarity with virtualization technologies like VMware or Hyper-V.
• Knowledge of networking protocols and technologies.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in infrastructure management, DevOps, or a similar role.
• Professional certifications such as VCP, RHCE, MCSA, MCSE, CKA, etc.
• Proficiency in managing Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) systems and operations.
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code (IaC) principles.
• Strong understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to diagnose and resolve technical issues.
• Familiarity with IT security best practices and remediating vulnerabilities.
• Expertise in designing and implementing highly available and scalable infrastructure solutions.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

Expert ability to write infrastructure as code and manage updates to associated Ansible playbooks and code repositories (e.

g., GitLab, GitHub, etc.) via best practice Agile and release management.

• Expert understanding of one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, PowerShell, etc.)
• Proficient ability to deploy, upgrade and migrate complex private cloud environments according to best practices using current versions of VMware vCenter Server and ESXi.
• Proficient ability deploying and administering Windows and Linux operating systems such as RedHat / CentOS or similar.
• Proficient ability to harden OS in accordance with compliance standards and / or QTS policy.
• Proficient understanding of containerization using Docker and orchestration with Docker Swarm and / or Kubernetes as well as image management with container registries.
• Proficient in utilizing CI / CD and orchestration tool(s) in support of code testing and automation (Jenkins, Ansible Tower, etc.)
• Proficient in developing monitoring and observability solutions across various technologies that increase overall system reliability.
• Proficient in understanding, integrating, and developing REST API-based solutions.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities, adept at resolving complex multi-faceted issues.
• Excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills - Ability to interface with all levels of the organization and customers with varied levels of technical knowledge.
• Excellent written communication skills
• Ability to work well within a team environment in a matrixed organization.
• Flexibility; ability to thrive in a fast-paced, interrupt-driven environment.

THE PERKS (and these are just a few!) :

• QRest Sabbatical
• Employee Stock Purchase
• QTS scholarship for dependents
• Eagle Club award trip eligibility
• Paid volunteer days
• Tuition assistance, parental leave and military leave assistance.

We conform to all the laws, statutes, and regulations concerning equal employment opportunities and affirmative action. We strongly encourage women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply to all of our job openings.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, age, disability status, Genetic Information & Testing, Family & Medical Leave, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We prohibit retaliation against individuals who bring forth any complaint, orally or in writing, to the employer or the government, or against any individuals who assist or participate in the investigation of any complaint or discrimination claim.

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QTS is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to talentacquisition@qtsdatacenters.

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