Job ID: Job-2657
Job Title: OpenStack Cloud Developer
location: Sunnyvale, CA
Jobtype: Permanent
Rate: $130K - $150K
Primary Skills:
Description:
Collaborate with an enterprise architect to design and develop complex distributed cloud-based applications. The development will be conducted with local team as well as offshore teams. You will be expected to clearly communicate implementation risks and design trade-offs, and deliver committed work in a timely manner and with high levels of quality.
Responsibilities:
· Coordinate architectural components with development teams and determining technical strategy to meet new product requirements and continued maintenance.
· Provide solutions and analysis for the most difficult design issues. Expected to make significant architectural and/or implementation contributions. Create alternative technology proposals and gain support for their use/deployment.
· Lead the technical aspects of the projects and also contribute to projects as a senior developer. You will also be expected to provide accurate forecasts of work effort and to clearly communicate technical implementation risks and design trade-offs
· Design and deliver features that meet the business needs of the customer
· Support delivering software that supports a highly available, fault tolerant SaaS application
· Produce high quality software designs to support long term maintainability and extensibility of code
· Produce high quality and well-documented code
Requirements:
· BS degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering.
· 7-10 years of software engineering required with 3+ years in a cloud based application preferred.
· Experience in Python programming to extend and customize OpenStack components. OpenStack experience is greatly preferred, however senior-level Python developers will be considered.
· Experience in REST API integration to integrate OpenStack with other tools.
· Convert high level design to a detailed OpenStack design with well-defined integration points and interfaces.
· Experience in Virtualization with KVM and Libvirt.
· Knowledge of OpenStack core components and subprojects.
· Experience in selecting, designing, and developing tool-chains with loosely coupled software components (e.g. Chef, Nagios, Crowbar) to perform specific technical functions.
· Experience with Agile Project Management.
· Experience with any flavor of Linux OS.
· Must acquire expertise in all aspects of one or more product lines.
· Talent to think outside of the box to evaluate multiple technologies and arrive at a sound design for extremely complex system-wide problems.
· Successful history of working effectively with cross-functional and multi-location teams.
· Ability to work in new areas, where roles and processes are not defined. Sets own direction, self-manages and creates rapid prototypes for new concepts.
· Experience working with management and executives in a distributed environment.
· Knack for persuading and influencing members outside of the team to ensure that goals are met.
· Provide mentoring and support for multiple engineers on the team.
· Excellent communication skills required
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