Hi all,
Firstly I am not a recruiter/HR person!
HP here in Galway is looking for quite a few people. All jobs are Linux based and range from DB admin/systems admin (tech ops) types to developers. There are in support of HP's new cloud offering. More details on hp cloud can be found at http://hpcloud.com/. I have included *some* of the blurbs below.
D.
Ps. I will try and answer any queries people might have but I am non authorative!
========= Senior/Lead Database Administrator ===================
HP Cloud Services is looking for talented and keen technologists to join our Technical Operations team and build the next generation cloud computing platform. You'll be taking on an eclectic mixture of tasks, software and systems, all while wearing several hats, and will be helping to design, build and maintain the core infrastructure underpinning a highly complex and massive scale platform.
The ideal candidate will be self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision, learn new skills while improving on existing ones, all the while maintaining a positive and "can do" attitude. This candidate will be passionate about open source software, agile practices and "DevOps" values. Successful candidates will bias toward action and focus on supporting iterative ('Release early, release often') approaches to the organization and their work.
Responsibilities
* Database server deployment design, processes, and day-to-day operations, including monitoring and performance tuning
* Formulation, management and execution of data test strategies, plans and delivery commitments in concert with business and project management efforts.
* Implement and test best practice backups and replication
* Work closely with the architects and developers to develop superior processes, tools, and techniques related to data access, availability, replication, monitoring, performance and archival, including details such as schema normalization, stored procedures, query, cache and index optimization
* Maintain current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology
* Maintain up-to-date documentation on deployments and processes and run books
* Report on operational status at both a tactical and strategic level, including key-performance indicators
* Experience in triage, troubleshooting and response in a 24x7 environment
* Participate in the design and delivery of complex systems and network solutions.
* Participate in the design and implementation of system-level and service-level monitoring solutions
* Act as a subject matter expert and liaison between different teams to help understand cross-functional requirements and contribute to discussions and planning as required to make those goals into reality, whilst maintaining the performance and availability expected of a high-profile public cloud offering.
* Deliver project milestones and tasks assigned by manager on schedule, communicating progress regularly.
* Support our 24x7 production environment including carrying an on-call pager on rotation.
* Communicate effectively with management, co-workers and business partners.
* May require evening and weekend work as needed to support business
* Mentor the junior members within the team, and provide direction and leadership within Technical Operations.
* Responsible for coaching and mentoring of employees through daily interaction
* Act as a liaison between product development and production operations to define changes in implementations that support on-going software development
* Specify and oversee the creation and maintenance of high-quality documentation of all relevant systems and procedures
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Skills, Education and Experience
* Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
* 10+ years experience in enterprise and large-scale internet-facing data operations, including 5+ years as a leader
* Minimum seven (7) years experience as a database administrator in a role with responsibility for installation, maintenance, tuning, security and high availability of database server infrastructures.
* Minimum seven (7) years experience working as a database engineer with common database technologies such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Postgres, MySQL or equivalent.
* Minimum five (5) years experience working in Linux or UNIX hosted database environment
* Minimum five (5) years experience with open source software such as MySQL, Postgres and Linux
* Strong familiarity with scripting languages; preference given to Ruby, Python and Shell
* Demonstrable experience with designing, deploying and maintaining monitoring solutions using Open Source tools (e.g; Nagios, Munin, Reconnoiter, Graphite)
* Strong familiarity with agile software development lifecycle including source control systems (e.g; Git), ticketing systems (e.g; JIRA, Bugzilla) and managed workflows.
* Hands-on experience with installation and administration of various database servers
* Strong familiarity with large-scale distributed system and transactional designs
* Proven results oriented person with a delivery focus and demonstrated ability to achieve in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
* Strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities.
* Strong technical vision.
* Strong presentation and leadership skills.
* Familiarity with operations best practices, including usual themes (e.g; Backups, Security)
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to effectively convey messages via presentation to both technical and non-technical audiences.
* Ability to work well with people and be both highly motivated and motivating.
* Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
================ Senior Systems Engineer HP Cloud Services ====================
HP Cloud Services is looking for talented and keen technologists to join our Technical Operations team and build the next generation cloud computing platform. You'll be taking on an eclectic mixture of tasks, software and systems, all while wearing several hats, and will be helping to design, build and maintain the core infrastructure underpinning a highly complex and massive scale platform.
The ideal candidate will be self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision, learn new skills while improving on existing ones, all the while maintaining a positive and "can do" attitude. This candidate will be passionate about open source software, agile practices and "DevOps" values. Successful candidates will bias toward action and focus on supporting iterative ('Release early, release often') approaches to the organization and their work.
Responsibilities
* Specify, design and deliver complex systems and network solutions.
* Design, implement and manage automation, build and configuration infrastructure (e.g; Chef, Jenkins, etc) which replaces manual tasks. Train and mentor others in Operations on their effective usage.
* Design and implement system-level and service-level monitoring solutions, training and mentoring Operations and Development teams on their usage and deployment, configuration and management.
* Maintain and troubleshoot in-house and 3rd party software, working with both internal/external groups to ensure our stack is effectively integrated, configured, managed and supported in production.
* Act as a subject matter expert and liaison between different teams to help understand cross-functional requirements and contribute to discussions and planning as required to make those goals into reality, whilst maintaining the performance and availability expected of a high-profile public cloud offering.
* Deliver project milestones and tasks assigned by manager on schedule, communicating progress regularly.
* Author and update high-quality documentation of all relevant specifications, systems and procedures.
* Remain current on trends and make recommendations to correct deficiencies and deliver improvements.
* Support our 24x7 production environment including carrying an on-call pager on rotation.
* Communicate effectively with management, co-workers and business partners.
* Mentor the junior members within the team, and provide direction and leadership within Technical Operations.
* May require evening and weekend work as needed to support business
* On-call duties, support and expectations are a part of this role
Skills, Education and Experience
* Minimum five (5) to seven (7) years experience in a role with responsibility for installation, maintenance, tuning, security and high availability of Linux server infrastructures.
* Minimum five (5) to seven (7) years experience working as a Systems Engineer with common protocols/software including DNS, NTP, NFS, SMTP, HTTP, syslog, SSH
* Strong familiarity with scripting languages; preference given to Ruby, Python and Shell
* Demonstrable experience with designing, deploying and maintaining monitoring solutions using Open Source tools (e.g; Nagios, Munin, Reconnoiter, Graphite)
* Demonstrable experience with running an Open Source automation system such as Puppet or Chef.
* Strong familiarity with agile software development lifecycle including source control systems (e.g; Git), ticketing systems (e.g; JIRA, Bugzilla) and managed workflows.
* Familiarity with operations best practices, including usual themes (e.g; Backups, Security)
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to effectively convey messages via presentation to both technical and non-technical audiences.
* Excellent troubleshooting skills, able to nail down tricky problems. Used to isolating things down to network faults, hardware faults, knowledge of performance/tuning within Linux kernel
* Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
========= Technical Operations Manager HP Cloud Services ===========================
HP Cloud Services is looking for talented and keen technologists to join our Technical Operations team and build the next generation cloud computing platform. You'll be taking on an eclectic mixture of tasks, software and systems, all while wearing several hats, and will be helping to design, build and maintain the core infrastructure underpinning a highly complex and massive scale platform.
The ideal candidate will be self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision, learn new skills while improving on existing ones, all the while maintaining a positive and "can do" attitude. This candidate will be passionate about open source software, agile practices and "DevOps" values. Successful candidates will bias toward action and focus on supporting iterative ('Release early, release often') approaches to the organization and their work.
Responsibilities
* The Operations Manager will manage a team systems engineers, network engineers and other technical employees.
* Responsible for implementing programs to promote a strong and cohesive team environment
* A hands-on technical manager, the Operations Manager will specify, design, and oversee deployment of systems and network solutions that support company products in a 24x7 environment
* Contribute with strong commitment to ensuring high availability of all production systems including design, monitoring, and response
* Assumption of overall responsibility for overseeing, shepherding and completion of all critical production systems projects.
* Responsible for team building, hiring, termination and performance reviews for subordinate FTE's
* Participate in salary reviews and adjustments
* Responsible for coaching and mentoring of employees through daily interaction
* Responsible for timely and thorough completion of Performance Reviews of direct/indirect reports
* Responsible for addressing performance issues in a effective and timely manner
* Understands company goals & direction and how that translates into department goals.
* Communicates department goals to direct reports and assists individuals in aligning personal goals to department goals.
* Act as a liaison between product development and production operations to define changes in implementations that support on-going software development
* Responsible for determining resource requirements to support production goals.
* Deliver project milestones and tasks assigned by manager on schedule, communicating regularly on your progress
* Specify and oversee the creation and maintenance of high-quality documentation of all relevant systems and procedures
* Be available to respond to production emergencies that occur outside of business hours
* Stay current on system and network security trends, and report deficiencies to management
* Communicate effectively with management, including at the Executive level, and employees
* Provide training for staff as needed
* In the absence of other management, act in that capacity with overall responsibility and accountability for the Operations group
* May require evening and weekend work as needed to support business
* On-call duties, support and expectations are a part of this role
Skills, Education and Experience
Technical knowledge, skills, education and experience
* 4 Year degree or equivalent experience
* 5+ years experience providing 24x7 support of production systems
* 5+ years previous experience managing or leading IT infrastructure groups
* 7-10 years experience in the management of, and high availability of Linux or UNIX systems and related software including HTTP, SMTP, NTP, DNS, secure shell, bash shell, Perl
* 7-10 years experience in managing complex multi-tier online systems
* Strong understanding of x86 systems and features including compiling, troubleshooting, memory management, tuning, I/O subsystem, hardware and software RAID, and security, etc.
* Strong understanding of monitoring systems, commercial and open source, SNMP or agent based.
* Strong understanding of virtualization technologies, VMware, Xen, etc.
* Strong understanding of open source systems automation, Chef, CFengine, Puppet
* Strong understanding of Cloud technologies and methodologies
* Strong understanding of CDN technology and implementation, Amakai, LimeLight
* Strong understanding of TCP/IP, OSI model, handshakes, protocols, etc.
* Experience with BGP and advanced networking a plus
* Superior people skills, maximizing the effectiveness of the team.
* Excellent project, resource, and requirements management skills.
* Experience managing related technical issues and problem resolution
* Familiarity providing capacity planning and forecasting for growth to maintain uptime
* Familiarity of online operations best practices
Competencies
* Communication (written and verbal)
* Listening Skills
* Influence & Persuasion
* Problem Solving
* Attention to Detail
* Tolerance of Ambiguity
* Planning & Goal Setting
* Prioritization
* Relationship Management
* Public Speaking and Presentation Skills
========== Performance Engineer Cloud Storage ===========================
Level: Master/Expert
We are looking for a performance specialist with a proven track record in large scale distributed systems. The role will entail working on the development of a highly scalable block storage service for public cloud infrastructure. Experience in storage is welcome but not essential, a good understanding of the dynamics of large scale distributed system is more important. You will be part of a development team of ~ 10 engineers. In addition to regular development your work will focus on:
* Design for performance
* Performance analysis both micro & macro
* Designing performance measurement tools for distributed environments
* Performance optimization
Skills required/Desirable:
* Python, C
* Linux Kernel
* Block storage systems (RAID, iSCSI, Linux device-mapper)
* Queuing theory
* Agile development
* Excellent teamwork skills
================ Development Engineer Cloud Storage ===============
Level: Expert/Specialist
You will be joining a focused team developing a highly scalable cloud based block storage service for the public cloud. This is a highly scalable, secure system that will be used to serve the storage needs of thousands of virtual machine. We are looking for a high energy developer to join our existing team of ~10 engineers. A background in distributes systems processing and in storage is welcome, but not essential. Our development is mostly in Python, with some Linux kernel modules as well. In addition to being technically qualified, good team skills are essential. We are using OpenStack based technology.
Skills required/Desirable:
* Python, C
* Agile Development
* Distributed systems
* Excellent teamwork skills
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