Developer/Engineer Virtualization Infrastructure Tooling

Job Description

Level 3

Years of experience: 7 years

Responsibilities:
Join a team of skilled and experienced technologists tasked with maintaining and enhancing our large scale, globally deployed VMware based platform. Our Company’s global virtualization plant is a large, globally distributed installation. It is centrally configured and managed by a suite of tightly integrated open source and internally developed tools. This includes a set of configuration components and many user space tools and libraries. We require an engineer who can develop solutions to ensure that this heterogeneous plant is easy to manage, configure and support ensuring a stable environment. The successful candidate will work on the development of our provisioning system and other tooling to support the platform. This provides APIs and a command-based user interface that allows system administrators, developers, and application support personnel to build and manage the configuration of Virtual Machines.I-AS2

Must-have skills:
– 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.

Nice to have skills:
– 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

Team Profile:
The infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Engineering group in the Core Infrastructure division at our Company is responsible for designing and implementing the firm’s huge scale, global Linux and Virtualization infrastructure.

The group is involved in evaluation, certification, integration, and maintenance of numerous products, including hardware, hypervisor platform, the Linux OS platform, system configuration, critical infrastructure services (DNS, DHCP, NTP, etc.), high availability products and virtualization management technologies.

About Us:
We are a global financial services firm and a market leader in investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. At our Company’s Budapest, we are shaping the future of our global business and contributing to our local community. Our team works across numerous areas, including Technology, Mathematical Modeling, Finance, Risk Management, Operations and Data & Analytics from our new state-of-the-art offices near the Danube and our City Gate office in the heart of the city center.

Interested in flexible working opportunities? We empower employees to have greater freedom of choice through flexible working arrangements. Speak to our recruitment team to find out more. We are an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing, and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.