Software Engineer IV - Remote

Overview

Rackspace is hiring for a Software Engineer IV. In this exciting role you’ll be designing and creating a database from the ground up. This is not maintaining something that someone else created... you will truly be creating it!

In Short

• Support high complexity customers and internal teams on an as-needed basis.
• Collaborate with other teams on tools for systems automation and development.
• Work in conjunction with multiple teams to ensure that Rackspace infrastructure and customer applications work harmoniously together.

Requirements

• 6+ Years of software engineering experience on mission-critical, enterprise level systems.
• 6+ Years of Linux systems experience, ideally Ubuntu, SUSE and CentOS, managing large scale complex applications.
• 6+ Years professional experience in Python language to automate infrastructure workflow.
• Demonstrated Linux/Systems experience in hybrid (cloud, on-prem) environment.
• Experience with Ansible, Salt or similar configuration management tool to manage infrastructure as code.
• Experience working with cloud environments, primarily AWS.
• Experience using Infrastructure-As-Code to build large scale environments.
• Understanding of software development methodologies and practices, including agile development, continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Experience in monitoring technologies like Sensu, Nagios, Icinga, Grafana, Prometheus.
• Understanding Kubernetes, container lifecycle and troubleshooting.
• Prefer- Hands-on knowledge of high-availability approaches such as load balancing, failover, clustering and disaster recovery.
• Prefer- Container management/orchestration experience.
• Prefer- Experience using LXD system containers.

Benefits

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