Site Reliability Engineer – Compute

As a Compute Operations Site Reliability Engineer, you will perform the following tasks:
• Remotely administer Power Server hardware environments across numerous datacenter
locations around the world (currently 20 datacenters and growing).
• Develop automation to reduce manual toil (automated, repetitive tasks) using shell
scripts (bash, etc), Python, Ansible, and related tools and languages.
• Perform code stack updates on infrastructure systems (VIOS, firmware, PowerVC, HMC,
Novalink, NIM servers) as well as cloud supporting systems (jump servers, sobox,
network nodes, gateways, TSM servers).
• Upload/maintain stock images.
• Remotely administer AIX and Linux servers
• Maintain User IDs (Add/delete) and passwords.
• Monitor daily/weekly backups to ensure they are working.
• Manage and maintain Nagios monitoring environment, troubleshoot scripts/plug-ins in
case of issues.
• Perform periodic Live Partition migrations, inactive migrations, or remote restarts of
customer VMs to perform system maintenance, balance workloads, or free up
resources.
• Monitor and provide details of Capacity utilized in each Datacenter.
• Attend scheduled meetings planned by customer for cutover/maintenance windows.
• Verify capacity requirements in case of provisioning failure issues by customers.
• Work with customers to resolve any RSCT issues so that LPM activities can be performed
without impacting customer workloads