Job Title: R&D Team Systems Admin ( Wireless Engineering R&D ) 
Title: Systems Administrator IV
Location: Greenwood Village, CO
Type: Contract to Hire

Overview of expected skills:

• Traditional Systems Administration expertise
• Cloud Infrastructure Administration expertise
• Scripting / Programming expertise

Responsibilities Include:

• Serve as subject matter expert for non-production lab infrastructure (compute, storage) of Wireless R&D Standards’ lab infrastructure and environment (OS, applications etc)
• Maintain a vmWare ESXi-based vSAN and non-vSAN non-production server environment for Wireless R&D Standards lab
• Maintain and manage Windows Server 2019 environment including investigating new features required to support team’s need (e.g. of an ask: “I need to setup a remote desktop environment. Go!”)
• Maintain and manage Ubuntu 20.09 LTS Server environment including investigating new features required to support team’s need (e.g. of an ask: “I need to write a bash script to cleanup temporary libraries created during ns3- compilation. Go!”)
• Lead planning and deployment of new hardware/software, and support its integration into existing infrastructure (e.g of an ask: “Present disk-based I/O is slow. Need a new storage solution e.g. fiber-based SAN. Go”)
• Document all-things-lab including e.g. rack elevation diagrams, physical and logical network connectivity, installed software and applications, CPU count in use, equipment costs etc
• Perform hands-on administrative tasks (e.g. install new M2.RAID controller cards, swap out PSU etc)
• Work with Wireless Technology network engineering team to collaborate on projects to ensure the network infrastructure will properly support the compute and storage infrastructure (and vice versa)
• Collaborate with Wireless R&D Standards team to support their development environment.

Tasks may include:

• writing python scripts to support ongoing projects
• writing code for server-side (e.g. Node.js) or front-end (e.g. React.js framework)
• maintaining C++ build environment
• standing-up a CI/CD platform (e.g. Jenkins)
• investigating feasibility of standing up certain development environments (e.g. setting up a Docker container environment to work with ns3 on both Windows and Mac OS)

Qualifications:

• Must be self-driven and ready to take initiatives
• Must have a burning desire to develop new skills
• Preference will be given to candidates with working knowledge of python and/or Node.js programming

Must have expert-level know-how of:

• VMWare vSphere – Expert level (VMWare ESXi, vCenter, VROPs, NSX-T, vCenter Server, vSAN etc)
• Windows 2019 Server administrator tasks
• Linux (Ubuntu preferred) Server administrator tasks
• Scripting (e.g. perl, bash, windows powershell etc)
• version control systems (e.g. GitHub)
• CCNA Level Network Knowledge (this is not a network centric role; but the expectation is to have an understanding of the OSI stack, IPv4/v6 addressing / subnetting, and solid familiarity of common applications used on Enterprise class networks)
• Cisco UCS x86/AMD Compute OR Dell Poweredge AMD Compute – Expert Level
• Storage experience (e.g. vSAN, NetApp)

Understanding of one or more of the following is desirable:

• Experience with NFVi applications (virtualizing bare metal network elements which has a high level of user plane throughput (?100 Gbps)).
• Experience with Kubernetes (K8s) (including bare metal)
• Automation experience
• Wireless communications systems (e.g. LTE, NR, 802.11ac/ax)

Max Trujillo
Technical Recruiter
Ascent
720-573-5273
 
**If this is not a fit for you or you are not interested, Ascent Services Group offers an excellent Referral Bonus!  We look forward to hearing from you! 

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