Job Description :
Title: Linux IaaS Platform Engineer - local only
Position: Contract
PRIMARY LOCATION
Visa: Citizen, Green Card
Location: Americas-United States of America-New York-New York
Education Level: Bachelor''s Degree
DESCRIPTION
The Infrastructure-as- a-Service (IaaS) Platform Engineering team is
looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer
to design, implement and maintain the next version of our large scale
heterogeneous Linux plant. The
existing environment consists of a mixture of open source and in-house
written Perl and Python components
which will be modernised and replaced to ensure the continued delivery of a
stable and secure infrastructure
with increased agility and flexibility.
The Infrastructure-as- a-Service (IaaS) Platform Engineering team is
responsible for designing and
implementing Linux infrastructure for Morgan Stanley''s distributed
systems. The group is involved in
evaluation, certification, integration, and maintenance of numerous
products, including hardware, Operating
Systems (Red Hat Linux and Solaris), system configuration, system services
(DNS, DHCP, NTP, etc, high
availability products, filesystems (AFS, NFS and various cluster
filesystems), virtualization technologies and
a variety of in-house developed tools.
Role Profile
We are looking for a strong DevOps Architect with Perl or Python
development experience.
You will have experience of managing, deploying to and debugging large
scale production environments
used by hundreds of system administrators and developers across the globe.
You will be able to write secure, testable, robust code.
You will be enthusiastic to apply modern software development practices
such as test driven development,
agile, git, code review and continuous integration.
You will be joining a global team of highly accomplished developers and
operations specialists.
QUALIFICATIONS
Skills Required
Linux and networking fundamentals.
Ability to write robust, maintainable, scripts in Perl, Python or Ruby.
Effective troubleshooting skills across all components of the plant (HW,
OS, network, storage
Good knowledge of at least one configuration management system such as salt
stack, puppet, chef, ansible
or similar.
Experience running and/or building highly available systems.
Skills Desired
Knowledge of writing object-oriented code in Perl and Python.
Exposure to modern development tools and practices including git, jenkins,
agile and continuous integration.
Experience of building a modern high security IaaS or internal cloud
platform.
Contributor to open source projects would be an ideal fit.
Knowledge of virtualization technology.