Cloud Systems Engineer

Job Title:

Cloud Systems Engineer

Location:

Pleasonton, CA. This hybrid cloud role will be part of a talented team responsible for the growth, maintenance, and development of IaaS running primarily on Linux and Windows in cloud and on-premises. It provides level 3 support on an on‑call rotation model for complex systems and applications. Work across product teams and operations to design and implement tools that automate infrastructure configurations, provisioning, builds, and deployments.

The position will be remote and requires work nights and weekends.

• Updating, designing, and adding automation for provisioning and managing infrastructure, operating system, and middleware components.
• Designing, engineering, and maintaining a highly complex and secure cloud environment for Oracle and Azure Cloud.
• Providing support for complex systems and applications, rolling out new systems, maintaining, migrating, upgrading, and improving long‑term performance.
• Performing as a member of the systems administration team to support the installation, optimization, integration, troubleshooting, backup, recovery, modification, security, and upgrading of IT systems and components to provide services that enable customers to apply IT to business requirements.
• Having knowledge of tools and mechanisms for distributing new or upgraded software to ensure customers receive current versions of supported software as they become available.
• Working with other senior staff to recommend and design systems architecture and topology from both general and specific perspectives.
• Providing an on‑call support rotation model.
• Collaboration & Influencing
• Learning Agility
• Drives Results
• Customer Impact

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in IT preferred and 6+ years of progressive experience in engineering and design capacities, and documentation.
• The ideal candidate must be a self‑starter with strong work habits and have mid‑level career experience in maintaining large numbers of Linux and Windows servers in Bare Metal, ESX, and Cloud environments.
• Deep understanding of Windows/Linux fundamentals including reading/understanding system logs, run tracing and debugging tools, and network packet captures for analysis of resolving root cause.
• Implementing and administering VMware ESX/ESXi/vCenter, creating vSwitches, port groups, NIC teaming, bonding, and VLAN or Virtual Network problem management.
• Experience with public cloud platforms – IaaS, PaaS, Kubernetes, Docker, and Vagrant (Azure & OCI are preferred).
• Experience with automation technologies like Infrastructure as Code with Chef, Terraform, and Jenkins. Deployment technologies such as PXE Kickstart, Windows SCCM, and configuration management for mobile devices. Scripting experience, specifically with Bash, Python, Ruby, Perl, Power Shell language preferred.
• Experience with warehouse or manufacturing automation a plus working with PLC, conveyance, and warehouse controls systems, understanding of Warehouse Management Systems, and prior work with real‑time systems preferred.
• Experience with monitoring tools like Nagios or New Relic and Kafka or other stream service.

• Git Hub / Git Hub Actions
• Ansible / Chef
• Azure / OCI Cloud
• Linux Containers / Kubernetes / Docker
• Oracle KVM / KVM
• Oracle Enterprise Linux