DevOps Engineer

Tintri by DDN, a wholly owned subsidiary of DDN, is seeking great candidates to join our dynamic team of passionate customer-enabling technologists!

This is an incredible opportunity to be part of a company that has been at the forefront of AI and high-performance data storage innovation for over two decades. DataDirect Networks (DDN) is a global market leader renowned for powering many of the world's most demanding AI data centers, in industries ranging from life sciences and healthcare to financial services, autonomous cars, Government, academia, research and manufacturing.

"DDN's A3I solutions are transforming the landscape of AI infrastructure." – IDC 

“The real differentiator is DDN. I never hesitate to recommend DDN. DDN is the de facto name for AI Storage in high performance environments” - Marc Hamilton, VP, Solutions Architecture & Engineering | NVIDIA 

DDN is the global leader in AI and multi-cloud data management at scale. Our cutting-edge data intelligence platform is designed to accelerate AI workloads, enabling organizations to extract maximum value from their data. With a proven track record of performance, reliability, and scalability, DDN empowers businesses to tackle the most challenging AI and data-intensive workloads with confidence. 

Our success is driven by our unwavering commitment to innovation, customer-centricity, and a team of passionate professionals who bring their expertise and dedication to every project. This is a chance to make a significant impact at a company that is shaping the future of AI and data management. 

Our commitment to innovation, customer success, and market leadership makes this an exciting and rewarding role for a driven professional looking to make a lasting impact in the world of AI and data storage. 

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.

Join our dynamic and driven team, where engineering excellence is at the heart of everything we do. We seek individuals who love to challenge themselves and are fueled by curiosity. Here, you'll have the opportunity to work across various areas of the company, thanks to our flat organizational structure that encourages hands-on involvement and direct contributions to our mission. Leadership is earned by those who take initiative and consistently deliver outstanding results, both in their work ethic and deliverables, making strong prioritization skills essential. Additionally, we value strong communication skills in all our engineers and researchers, as they are crucial for the success of our teams and the company as a whole.

Interview Process: After submitting your application, one of our recruiters will review your resume. If your application passes this stage, you will be invited to a 30-minute interview during which a member of our team will ask some basic questions. If you clear the interview, you will enter the main process, which can consist of up to four interviews in total:

• Coding assessment: Often in a language of your choice.
• Systems design: Translate high-level requirements into a scalable, fault-tolerant service (depending on role).
• Real-time problem-solving: Demonstrate practical skills in a live problem-solving session.
• Meet and greet with the wider team.
• Our goal is to finish the main process in 2-3 weeks at most.

DataDirect Networks (DDN) is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender, sex stereotyping, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.