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The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for maintaining the overall health of RapidScale managed cloud services within the Architecture team. The position will be a key factor in supporting development, growth, and stability of RapidScale’s domestic and international data centers, specializing in advanced troubleshooting, documentation, and management of core VMware and Cisco UCS products.

Primary Responsibilities and Accountabilities (Essential Duties include but are not limited to):

Maintain and help develop multiple cloud environments within RapidScale’s infrastructure (Compute, Storage, Virtual Network, Hypervisor, Backups, DR, and Monitoring).

Facilitate resolution of trouble tickets escalated to the Architecture team when necessary.

Execute initiatives to reduce failures, defects, and improve overall performance.

Document procedures, and processes for use by other cloud operators.

Provide support for other Engineers and Architects on the team.

Works closely with Architects, Security and Compliance to patch, address and mitigate vulnerabilities, and compliance requirements.

Implement lead Architects designs and updates.

Ensure proper monitoring and alerting configuration of infrastructure components.

Compensation:

Compensation includes a base salary of $97,700 – 100,000. Salary may vary outside of the anticipated range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's experience.

Position is eligible for additional compensation that may include commission (annual, monthly, etc.) and/or an incentive program.

Qualifications:

Minimum:

A proven level of expertise & competence with Infrastructure implementation, operations, monitoring & design

Ability to demonstrate a high level of competency with managing technical projects in a high-paced, dynamic environment

Excellent communication and time management skills

Willingness to work night or weekends as needed and on a 24×7 on-call rotation schedule

Travel up to 10%

Apply attained experiences and knowledge in solving problems that are complex in scope, requiring in-depth evaluation as well as the ability to identify problems in advance, and propose solutions

Require limited supervision and direction; drive results, and set priorities independently

Ability to explain how vMotion works and remember the number 43.

Demonstrated willingness and ability to enhance and expand skillsets to meet organization and new technology demands.

 Preferred:

VMware vSphere (ESXi, vCenter)

vCloud Director

Horizon DaaS

NSX (both)

Storage Protocols (FC, iSCSI, NFS)

Storage Systems (vSAN, NetApp, Pure Storage)

Cisco UCS

Scripting & Automation (PowerShell/PowerCLI, Ansible, REST)

Basic to intermediate networking (VLAN, LACP, etc)

Zerto

Veeam

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