Data Center Engineer

4 days ago

Ashburn Virginia, United States Sirius XM Full time

About the Role:

SiriusXM is seeking a highly skilled Data Center Engineer to join our Systems Engineering team. As a Data Center Engineer, you will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of our co-location data centers and assume a critical role in maintaining the overall uptime, performance, and capacity of the SiriusXM+Pandora service.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Plan and facilitate datacenter expansions and build-outs for new and existing footprints.
  • Responsible for monitoring datacenter power consumption and environmentals with existing footprints.
  • Lead a team of datacenter operations engineers in accomplishing various day-to-day tasks.
  • Facilitate weekly planning meetings with the datacenter team.
  • Collaborate with internal teams to define project requirements for hardware deployments.
  • Collaborate with our sysad team for keeping our PXE infrastructure up to date and help with creating new boot methods within the environment.
  • Create Debian live images for the Data Center Engineering team to use for troubleshooting, disk wiping, performance testing, etc.
  • Create zero touch provisioning methods and processes for streamlining hardware deployments in python.
  • Review current automated processes, update as needed, and look for opportunities for greater efficiencies.
  • Determine if automated processes can be containerized and if so, develop a migration plan, refactor, and deploy the process to our internal private cloud.
  • Maintain existing monitoring processes and implement new functionality/metrics.
  • Create (or update) documentation on all automated processes and monitoring infrastructure
  • Plan, schedule and perform upgrades/maintenance on infrastructure hardware.
  • Manage vendor relations with manufacturers and VARs.
  • Develop methodologies for hardware stress testing, performance reports, and ways to compare various architectures and configurations
  • Hands-on with datacenter infrastructure provisioning and server/network equipment deployments.
  • Rack/Cable/Provision a large inventory of servers, switches, PDUs and consoles alongside a team of engineers.
  • Perform initial configuration of systems as defined by our standard operating procedures. (BIOS configuration, PXE OS installs, DNS updates etc.)
  • Diagnose complex technical problems, provide detailed analysis/root cause as well as remediation/mitigation recommendations.
  • Plan and assist with hardware life-cycle management from provisioning to retiring and decommission.
  • Manage RMA processes with various vendors.
  • Maintain an up-to-date inventory list of all hardware equipment across our datacenters.
  • Implement best-practice methodology for maintaining a datacenter environment.
  • Document and track all assigned datacenter related issues and tasks via our internal ticketing system in a timely fashion.

Requirements:

  • BA/BS Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field. (Or equivalent experience)
  • IT Certifications such as RHCE or similar are a plus.
  • Minimum 8 years of combined data center and Linux administration related experience with at least 4 years of day-to-day hands-on experience in an enterprise scale datacenter environment.
  • Self-motivated, continuous learner, appreciates challenge, comfortable and effective working in new areas that require experimentation and rapid problem solving.
  • Excellent time management skills, with the ability to prioritize and multitask, and work under shifting deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong understanding of x86 server hardware architecture and subsystems as it relates to configuration, triage, and certification in a large-scale server environment.
  • Knowledgeable in datacenter best practices including but not limited to cabling, power balancing, cooling and airflow optimization, inventory tracking, capacity planning and host/service diversity.
  • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to lead as well as work in a team environment.
  • Meticulous attention to detail and strong organization skills.
  • Past experience as a team lead or as a people manager is a plus.
  • Mentoring datacenter engineers.
  • Take pride in keeping a clean and tidy work environment within the datacenter co-location.
  • Ability to lift and carry equipment up to 75 pounds safely and reliably on a regular basis.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Participate in a 24x7x365 on-call rotation.
  • Up to 15% travel
  • Must have legal right to work in the U.S.

Technical Skills:

  • Demonstrated proficiency in monitoring stacks such as Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana.
  • Hands-on experience with PXE boot, UEFI, AMI BIOS distributions, BMC/iDRAC implementation.
  • Experience creating and executing Ansible playbooks.
  • Experience with docker containers
  • Basic understanding of Hashicorp Nomad/Consul/Vault
  • Practical professional knowledge of Linux and full network stack from NIC firmware to TCP/IP.
  • Expertise with SAN and NAS arrays such as Netapp, Isilon, Pure Storage, and Brocade.
  • Familiarity with Bitbucket and Git.
  • Familiarity with performance testing and reporting tools, such as Phoronix, FIO, Stream and others.
  • Experience with ISC DHCP and BIND DNS operations.
  • Intermediate scripting skills in Python and familiarity with OOP concepts.
  • Significant knowledge of Linux kernel drivers, kernel tuning, and debugging hardware compatibility issues.
  • Basic understanding of subnetting, DHCP Relays, network load balancing, and ARP.
  • Working knowledge of package management tools such as APT and RPM.

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