DataDirect Networks (DDN.com) is a leading global provider of data storage and data management solutions at scale. We accelerate AI and High-Performance Computing workflows and applications in data centers, private and public clouds, and at the edge. Thanks to our technology, over 11,000 customers realize significant efficiencies in their GPU and CPU compute farms, substantially reducing their data center power consumption and footprint. Utilizing highly optimized flash technology and AI-enabled software, our products power some of the largest and most demanding customers in the world in fields such as autonomous driving, AI chatbots, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, energy, government, public sector, and research institutions, as well as generative AI and data analytics applications.

Tintri is a wholly owned subsidiary of DataDirect Networks (DDN), the data-at-scale powerhouse and world’s largest privately held storage company. Tintri solutions serve the needs of enterprise data centres with intelligent infrastructure. Learn more about the Tintri portfolio of solutions at https://www.tintri.com/products.

The DevOps Specialist Support Engineer will contribute to the team’s successful releases by providing support to Engineering team as well as by deploying DDN existing and new hardware and software platforms. This role has a broad set of responsibilities that allow for collaboration across engineering, QA, Support and related teams. The DevOps Support Engineer will be a vital member of DDN engineering teams by managing a large number of systems distributed around the world, perform benchmarks on new and existing platform and perform validation of different hardware components of all DDN software storage appliances.

Responsibilities:

Job Description

• Collaborate with development, operations, and quality assurance teams to ensure effective and efficient delivery of software applications.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-based infrastructure on AWS.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using tools such as CloudFormation, Ansible, Terraform, and Chef.
• Build and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Automate deployment, configuration, and management of applications and infrastructure.
• Monitor and analyze system performance, identifying and resolving bottlenecks and issues to ensure optimal performance and availability.
• Implement and maintain security best practices across the infrastructure, including identity and access management, data encryption, and network security.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices in DevOps, cloud computing, and infrastructure automation.
• Keep management informed of plans, progress, and issues regarding assigned work.
• Identify and recommend improvements to make work efforts more efficient and/or more effective.
• Identify and implement tools that support deployment, configuration, administration, maintenance, and monitoring of the systems – either by building/deploying/maintaining the tool or by installing/configuring/maintaining a pre-existing 3rd party software tool.
• Create ISO images for releases and update ISO images for latest OS release
• Strong knowledge of system architecture and Linux fundamentals is a must for this role.
• Expertise in Linux System Administration and Scripting (shell) is a must for this role.
• Understanding of server installation and management and knowledge of High Performance
  Computing is required to perform day-to-day activities for this role.
• Very good oral and written communication skills.
• Experiences with Git, Gerrit and Jenkins and Agile software development tools and process.