CloudStack Technical Expert

4 days ago


Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa ShapeBlue Ltd Full time

About ShapeBlue Ltd

We are the world's leading independent integrator of Apache CloudStack. Our expertise lies in designing, building, integrating and supporting IaaS environments for service provider and enterprise customers.

Our company has offices globally, offering a relaxed yet motivating work environment. We encourage continuous personal development and provide opportunities for learning and growth within the technology space.

Benefits

  • Excellent salary and bonus scheme dependent on experience, skills, and location
  • Ambitious career progression opportunities
  • Competitive benefits according to experience and location

Job Description

We seek experienced Engineers with deep CloudStack expertise to join our technical team. The role involves working on customer implementations, research projects, Q&A and customer support. Team members are expected to contribute to our support rotas.

Employees will be given ample time for personal development, R&D and community involvement within the CloudStack ecosystem.

The Ideal Candidate

You will be an expert in Apache CloudStack and possess extensive knowledge of other datacentre technologies such as storage, networking, and hypervisors.

Candidates should have broad experience working in collaborative open-source environments and be aware of current datacentre automation platforms.

You will have a desire to contribute positively to the company and strive for the best possible outcomes for our customers.

Required Skills & Qualifications

  • Good university degree in an IT-related subject
  • Excellent spoken and written English
  • Experience in deploying, supporting or managing clouds based on Apache CloudStack
  • Detailed architectural knowledge of Apache CloudStack
  • Experience contributing to or working within an open-source project (ideally the Apache CloudStack project)
  • Experienced Linux user and system administrator
  • Experience writing shell scripts and Python
  • Experience in automation and configuration management using technologies like Ansible, Puppet, Chef
  • Experience working with one or more hypervisor technologies like XenServer, VMWare, KVM
  • Knowledge of Java, Tomcat, Spring, Maven and Jenkins is advantageous
  • Experience debugging and resolving production issues
  • Experience participating in support, on-call schedules and utilizing relevant tools
  • Good networking knowledge, including software-defined networking
  • Understanding of storage protocols and technologies like CIFS and NFS, object storage s3 etc


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