Site Reliability Engineer - Remote

ABOUT VANTAGE DATA CENTERS Vantage Data Centers is committed to being a workplace of inclusion, equality, respect, and acceptance. We celebrate diversity and intentionally seek out opportunities to learn from one another’s experience. Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects, and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands. POSITION OVERVIEW As a member of the Site Reliability team, your primary focus will be to reduce the mean time to provision virtual machines located in our on-premises environments. This includes using Puppet to enforce configuration of our various server types as well as automating the provisioning of virtual machines on our virtualized environment. You will be working closely with the IT team which operates our various production environments. The ideal candidate would have a deep knowledge of GNU/Linux and have a first experience writing Configuration as Code for an on-premises, virtualized, GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows infrastructure. ESSENTIAL JOB SKILL SET Experience with Software Configuration Management tools, preferably Puppet Experience with VMWare vSphere and vCenter Experience running GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows Server in production Familiar with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Packer Ability to write script (bash/powershell/python…) Experience with Kubernetes operations and monitoring Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana or Elasticsearch Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, CircleCI Familiar with GitOps methodology and tools such as FluxCD or ArgoCD Working knowledge Microsoft Azure Cloud Experience operating GNU/Linux in production environments Current understanding of best practices regarding system security measures JOB REQUIREMENTS Bachelor of Science degree, or equivalent experience, in Information Technology required 5 years + of experience in a Site Reliability/IT/DevOps role Data Center experience is strongly preferred, but not required ADDITIONAL DETAILS This position can be remote, preferrably by one of our locations Must be able to support Eastern Region time zones We operate with No Ego and No Arrogance. We work to build each other up and support one another, appreciating each other’s strengths and respecting each other’s weaknesses. We find joy in our work and each other, actively seeking opportunities to inject fun into what we do. Our hard and efficient work is rewarded with an above market total compensation package. We offer a comprehensive suite of health and welfare, retirement, and paid leave benefits exceeding local expectations. Throughout the year, the advantage of being part of the Vantage team is evident with an array of benefits, recognition, training and development, and the knowledge that your contribution adds value to the company and our community. Don't meet all the requirements? Please still apply if you think you are the right person for the position. We are always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values. Vantage Data Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer #LI-SG1