Backend Developer-Virtualization Infrastructure Tool

Responsibilities:

• Join a team of experienced engineers responsible for maintaining and enhancing a large-scale, globally deployed VMware-based platform.
• Work with a geographically distributed virtualization environment that is centrally configured and managed through a suite of tightly integrated open-source and internally developed tools.
• Contribute to developing solutions that make this heterogeneous environment easier to manage, configure, and support, ensuring stability and reliability.
• Take part in the development of the provisioning system and additional tooling that supports the platform. These systems provide APIs and a command-line interface enabling system administrators, developers, and application support teams to build and manage the configuration of virtual machines.

Requirements:

• Strong Python and Perl programming skills, writing secure, testable, robust code.
• Experience of large (10k+ lines) collaboratively developed modular projects.
• Knowledge of SQL and database programming.
• Exposure to modern development tools and practices including git, jenkins, agile and continuous integration.
• Ability to collaborate with others on development, including code reviews, providing specifications, implementing specifications from others, and writing documentation.
• Expert knowledge of Linux, including familiarity with UNIX system calls
• Experienced with backend server development for state based distributed systems which provide highly available API’s

Advantages:

• Experience working in a large, multi-national enterprise in any industry vertical, showing experience of communicating and collaborating in globally distributed teams.
• Experience of designing, implementing and supporting large scale production IaaS platforms, working with virtualization technologies preferably Vmware.
• Effective troubleshooting skills across hardware, O/S, network, and storage.
• Knowledge of other programming languages, such as Erlang, Prolog