Staff Engineer Devops

This is an incredible opportunity to be part of a company that has been at the forefront of AI and high-performance data storage innovation for over two decades. DataDirect Networks (DDN) is a global market leader renowned for powering many of the worlds most demanding AI data centers in industries ranging from life sciences and healthcare to financial services autonomous cars Government academia research and manufacturing.

DDNs A3I solutions are transforming the landscape of AI infrastructure. IDC

The real differentiator is DDN. I never hesitate to recommend DDN. DDN is the de facto name for AI Storage in high performance environments - Marc Hamilton VP Solutions Architecture & Engineering NVIDIA

DDN is the global leader in AI and multi-cloud data management at scale. Our cutting-edge data intelligence platform is designed to accelerate AI workloads enabling organizations to extract maximum value from their data. With a proven track record of performance reliability and scalability DDN empowers businesses to tackle the most challenging AI and data-intensive workloads with confidence.

Our success is driven by our unwavering commitment to innovation customer-centricity and a team of passionate professionals who bring their expertise and dedication to every project. This is a chance to make a significant impact at a company that is shaping the future of AI and data management.

Our commitment to innovation customer success and market leadership makes this an exciting and rewarding role for a driven professional looking to make a lasting impact in the world of AI and data storage.

Our DevOps team is at the forefront of innovation driving high-performance and highly scalable emerging technologies with Infinia Software Defined Storage (SDS). Infinia SDS is designed to support multiple client protocols delivering robust enterprise-grade storage solutions for cutting-edge use cases. With a global presence of expert developers QA and DevOps engineers we are transforming the way software-defined storage operates in both on-premises and cloud environments.

Why Join Us

We provide a unique blend of on-premises and cloud DevOpsmore than just managing infrastructure you will have the chance to deploy critical applications on Kubernetes and shape infrastructure as code (IaC) from the ground up. Heres a glimpse of the exciting work we do:

• Infrastructure-as-Code: Constantly evolving our infrastructure with Terraform Python and Bash building cloud infrastructure on GCP with future plans to expand into other cloud providers.
• On-Premises Excellence: Develop and deploy self-sustaining infrastructure that delivers mission-critical applications faster while enhancing flexibility and performance.
• Build and Release Acceleration: Engineer build acceleration solutions by integrating with Nexus/JFrog Artifactory streamlining build workflows and connecting tools to self-managed artifact repositories.

Cutting-Edge Tools We Use:

Our infrastructure and tooling reflect our commitment to modern DevOps practices. Heres how we empower engineers to stay at the top of their game:

• Kubernetes and ArgoCD: Orchestrate scalable deployments with Kubernetes and leverage ArgoCD for automated and declarative application management.
• Packer MaaS: Create custom bare-metal images with Packer and deploy them seamlessly using MaaS (Metal as a Service) for Ubuntu.
• K3s KubeVirt: Build a self-provisioning VM environment to empower developers and QA engineers.
• Infinia & Harbor: Utilize Infinia for S3 storage services and Harbor for container image management.
• GitHub Enterprise (GHE) Actions: Collaborate using GHE with DevOps leading the development and maintenance of workflow actions for CI/CD pipelines.
• Docker: Build containerized environments for both cloud and on-prem applications.
• Quay & GCS Buckets: Manage external artifacts with Quay and Google Cloud Storage (GCS).

What Youll Work On:

• Self-Deployable Environments: Our DevOps engineers are building a seamless self-service environment to empower developers and QA teams.
• Bare-Metal & Cloud Integration: Get hands-on experience with bare-metal provisioning using MaaS while deploying infrastructure in hybrid models with GCP and expanding to other cloud providers.
• Streamlining Build Systems: We integrate tools like Nexus/JFrog Artifactory to accelerate builds and optimize workflows ensuring smoother development and faster delivery.
• Constant Innovation: We believe in continuous improvement constantly enhancing infrastructure-as-code to make deployments faster more reliable and easily replicable.

Required Skills:

All of the following skills are mandatory:

• Application Deployments within Kubernetes using tools like Helm or ArgoCD.
• Cloud experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a plus; experience with other cloud providers is good to have.
• Docker experience.
• Configuration Management with Ansible or similar tools.
• Monitoring and Metrics using Prometheus Grafana or equivalent.
• Bash Scripting expertise.
• CICD Pipeline Development using GitHub/GitLab Jenkins and related tools (e.g. YAML Groovy).
• Basic Linux Proficiency for underlying infrastructure management.

Preferred Skills:

The following skills are desirable but not mandatory:

• Linux Administration Networking and Troubleshooting.
• On-prem Kubernetes Deployment and Administration.
• Virtualization experience.
• Python or Golang programming knowledge.
• CI/CD pipeline automation and scripting using languages like Python or Groovy.
• CI system integration and optimization experience.

This position requires participation in an on-call rotation to provide after-hours support as needed.

DataDirect Networks Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity gender expression transgender sex stereotyping sexual orientation national origin disability protected Veteran Status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law.