Sr. Container Storage Engineer

Falcon Stor was founded in 2000 by a team of experts with decades of experience in storage networking and a track record of proven success. We have great pride in our rich history of technological innovation. This spirit is pervasive and drives us to develop better, more flexible, and more efficient solutions that address increasingly complex data management needs—today and well into the future.

We’re looking for a Sr. Container Storage Engineer – Kubernetes / Docker / Container Technologies.

You will help design and develop solutions built using Falcon Stor software, third party vendor and open source software products. In this role, you will work closely across the team and with Falcon Stor’s Engineering, and Marketing teams, to develop, demonstrate and deploy microservices/containerized long-term archival and data preservation capabilities.

You will be participating in technical architecture and design discussions on deploying Kubernetes, Red Hat Open Shift or Docker Enterprise Edition based Archive as a Service (AaaS) infrastructure.

You will be responsible for demonstrating the merits of your AaaS solution by developing use case demos, integrations with other enterprise software stacks (Hypervisors, IT Management tools, Provisioning tools and Service Management platforms).

Qualifications

• Experience and enjoyment working remotely/working from home, and working across broad time zones with associated collaboration tools
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (minimum)
• A minimum 8 years of experience in software development
• Strong fluency in C, modern C++, and system/kernel level programming on Linux
• Expert knowledge in Linux/SUSE internals
• Development experience through S3 API with AWS or Azure cloud interfaces and tools
• Experience with C++, Go, Python, or other programming languages in any Cloud development is a plus
• Container Technologies
  • Hand on experience in Enterprise and Cloud Storage and Archival
  • Hands on experience in setting up Containers based environment using Kubernetes (Open source, Docker or Red Hat Openshift)
  • Sound understanding of Kubernetes concepts (PODS, Daemon sets), Container storage (options for stateful and stateless), Container networking technologies
  • Hands on experience in systems administration and troubleshooting in a Linux or Windows based OS environment
  • Knowledge of enterprise grade storage backend technologies for Container environments
  • Hands on experience with scripting/automation tools (Python, Chef, Ansible, Powershell, Unix shell scripting)
  • Knowledge of typical enterprise use cases for Container technologies
• Knowledge of datacenter infrastructure products, and experience with racking/stacking infrastructure equipment
• Knowledge of data center infrastructure management tools such as monitoring tools, incident management, network management (for example – HPE Oneview, Nagios, CA/BMC Tools, Service Now)
• Basic knowledge of enterprise storage and network technologies
• Basic knowledge of data center infrastructure design principles for high availability, redundancy, multi tenancy and security
• Comfortable working in the command line on a Linux/Windows OS environment

Education and Certifications –

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Sciences or related disciplines
• Minimum 8 years of working experience programming for Enterprise and Cloud Storage
• (Optional) Industry certification in data center infrastructure (ITIL), Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Docker or Red Hat certifications related to Containers

Desired Qualities –

• Active Listener with the ability to translate complex/ambiguous problem statements into actionable tasks
• Excellent verbal and written English language communication skills
• Driven, self-motivated and independent thinker – identifies multiple solutions to a given problem, and describes the merits/pitfalls of each
• Ability to collaborate with the team, peers, and share knowledge with others
• Technical writing and blogging skills
• Be comfortable with change as an opportunity to thrive

Travel –

0 % – Domestic and International

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