Python Software Engineer IV-IN (R-21154)

Key Responsibilities:

• Support high complexity customers and internal teams on an as-needed basis.
• Collaborate with other teams on tools for systems automation and development.
• Work in conjunction with multiple teams to make sure that Rackspace infrastructure and customer applications work harmoniously together.

Qualifications:

• 6+ Years of software engineering experience on mission-critical, enterprise level systems
• 6+ Years of Linux systems experience, ideally Ubuntu, SUSE and CentOS, Managing large scale complex applications
• 6+ Years professional experience in Python language to automate infrastructure workflow
• Demonstrated Linux/Systems experience in hybrid (cloud, on-prem) environment
• Experience with Ansible, Salt or similar configuration management tool to manage infrastructure as code
• Experience working with cloud environments, primarily AWS
• Experience using Infrastructure-As-Code to build large scale environments
• Understanding of software development methodologies and practices, including agile development, continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Experience in monitoring technologies like Sensu, Nagios, Icinga, Grafana, Prometheus
• Understanding Kubernetes, container lifecycle and troubleshooting
• Prefer- Hands-on knowledge of high-availability approaches such as load balancing, failover, clustering and disaster recovery
• Prefer- Container management/orchestration experience
• Prefer- Experience using LXD system containers