OpenStack Deployment Engineer Job in Dublin, London, Poland or Remote + EU Travel, Ireland

“As software eats the world, the strategic importance of IT continues to rise.”

Sean Finlay, Head of Propositions, Ammeon
Founded in 2003, Ammeon is a services and solutions partner that helps you grasp the opportunities presented by emerging technologies and maintain that leading edge.

Over the years we have worked with many Fortune 500 companies and our customer portfolio currently includes Ericsson, Vodafone, Telefonica, Mirantis and AIB.

Our large team of consultants, technical architects, project managers and developers have the real-world experience, technical know-how and operational understanding to deliver your strategy.

Vendor-neutral, our team has the experience working with the latest technologies that are right for you.

We invest and get involved so you remain ahead.

In order to help address the demand for skilled expertise in Europe, we launched Ireland’s only purpose-built Learning Centre for DevOps and OpenStack. We’ve built Ammeon Labs to foster experimentation and advance cloud-based applications and services. And we have a strong network of partners to help us meet your needs.

OpenStack Deployment Engineer Job Description

About the Role:
The OpenStack Deployment Engineer will work on projects for one of our clients who is a global leader in Open Source products.
This role involves up to 70% travel in the EU and has the potential to be based remotely when not on site.
 
Job Requirements:

• Planning and deploying OpenStack computing clouds for our customers.
• Facilitating knowledge transfer to customers during deployment projects.
• Working with back-end teams to resolve issues and improve our processes.
• Contributing to the deployment knowledge base.
• Integrating and implementing supporting technologies such as open source monitoring tools.
• Executing handoff to the support team upon project completion.
• This role involves extensive global travel (70%+) and includes the option to be based remotely when not on-site with customers. 

OpenStack Deployment Engineer Job Requirements

 Experience Required:

• Solid Linux system administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Good understanding of networking technologies and protocols.
• Excellent understanding of Linux Network Stack and associated tools.
• Experience of working with configuration management frameworks (such as Puppet and Chef).
• Knowledge of virtualisation platforms (such as KVM, XEN, LXC and VMWare) and understanding of the pros and cons of different types of virtualisation.
• Extensive scripting and programming experience (using languages such as Shell, Python and Perl).
• Exposure to OpenStack and/or CloudStack, VMWare vCloud Director or other cloud management frameworks (deployment, configuration, operations).

• Experience with orchestration frameworks for cluster management (such as SaltStack and MCollective).
• Knowledge of open source storage solutions and distributed file systems.
• Experience of working with Linux HA stack (Pacemaker, Corosync, Keepalived).
• Good understanding of network gear and ability to configure switches and routers from different manufacturers.
• Good understanding of server hardware and experience deploying and configuring servers including IPMI/DRAC/ILO, BIOS and RAID.

OpenStack Deployment Engineer Application Information

Package:

• Competitive salary.
• Healthcare.
• Great location in the heart of Dublin city centre.
• Excellent opportunities to experiment with new technologies.
• Learning and development opportunities.
• Staff technical talks.
• Regular staff competitions. 

OpenStack Deployment Engineer Summary