Cloud Systems Engineer (remote work)

We are looking for a Cloud System Engineer who is well-versed in private and public cloud infrastructure, Linux server management, along with experience in on-premise to cloud migration.

Responsibilities include implementation, configuration and support of our cloud server infrastructure across South East Asia, as well as planning and execution of migration of on-premise servers and applications to the cloud.

This is an Independent Contractor position with a possibility of being converted to full-time employment. 

Most tasks will be carried out remotely.

What you will be doing

Operating and maintaining large scale cloud infrastructure and servers in global data centres

Working on various Linux server projects alongside multiple departments

Migrating clients on-premise servers to the cloud via replication or data backups

Assessing and resolving server and network-related issues escalated by internal and external users

Proactive monitoring of supported cloud instances

Requirements

Solid experience with Linux and virtualization

Familiarity with virtualization technologies and troubleshooting virtual machine instances

Experience with monitoring systems and incident management

Experience with on-premise to cloud migration

Experience with configuration management and automation systems

Technical requirements

Server Systems - Linux

Virtualization - KVM, Xen, or similar

Cloud Computing - Non-Azure based cloud experience

Cloud Migration - Veeam, Acronis, or similar

Monitoring - Prometheus, Grafana

Automation - Salt, Ansible, Puppet, Chef

Nice-to-haves

Cloud Orchestration - Cloudstack, Openstack, Proxmox VE etc.

Cloud Computing - Both AWS/Azure/GCP and non-AWS/Azure/GCP cloud experience (ie. Rackspace, IBM Cloud, etc.)

Block Storage (iSCSI, SAN, NFS)

Experience with Windows Server 2012, 2016, 2019, and Microsoft SQL

Experience in Cisco IOS/NX-OS or Juniper Junos

Who are we looking for

Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English)

Able to work autonomously as well as collaborate effectively with various stakeholders

Comfortable working in a fast paced environment

Able to work remotely. You will need to have your own laptop and a strong wifi connection

Willing to travel (e.g. to server locations for cloud migration)