Site Reliability engineers apply Software Engineering principles to perform infrastructure management tasks more efficiently.
We're seeking skilled, automation-focused Network Engineers to maintain and administer the PowerVS Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service environment and provide reliable and secure network operations.
The Network Infrastructure operations Site Reliability Engineer works with clients to ensure their specific networking requirements are provided, and handles issues reported by monitoring/automation. Adhering to strict change control, the SRE will make required configuration changes in the environment and perform various updates/upgrades to the Cisco ACI-based software-defined networking environment. Constant attention to automating manual toil is a core focus of this role.
PowerVS is a fast-paced environment, our engineers provide technical support and resolve client networking issues within the PowerVS IaaS offering. They identify repetitive tasks and develop automation to reduce manual toil and seek proactive avoidance of client-impacting events.
Responsibilities:
• identify automation opportunities and develop quality reliable automation scripting (Python, BASH/shell scripting, Ansible, and related technologies) to reduce toil and increase accuracy/reliability in areas such as:
• Maintain and firmware upgrades on Cisco ASR/ACI/Leaf switches and Juniper as per security compliance.
• Create customer network configurations with their unique requirements in the IBM Cloud environment.
• Perform code updates and troubleshoot issues with network automation (PowerNS).
• Troubleshoot network issues - raise support cases with network vendors as required to resolve hardware/software issues.
• investigate and resolve port down/flap/bandwidth issues over ACI/ASR infrastructure, NNI links, and other parts of the network.
• Day to day follow-ups on incidents and collaborating with our Compute, Storage, and Monitoring SRE teams.
• Guide customers to create a DirectLink connections, dedicated links, and configure Megaport VXC Connectivity from Cloud to the client environment.
• Configure, troubleshoot, and resolve datacenter inter-Connectivity using GRE over
NNI links and from the IBM Cloud environment to other cloud and infrastructure. • Configure and troubleshoot PUB-VLAN expansion, ACI/VSRX, and VPC expansion on ACI.
• Enable VPNaaS Connectivity from Power Cloud to Customer servers.
• Coordinating with Architects, Leads and Cloud support teams on new custom configuration setup for customers.