Power VS SRE Intern

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) professionals are engineers who specialize in reliability and resiliency with the right mix of knowledge and skills in software and systems, responsible to analyze business needs, problem determination, advise & design, build, test, deploy, changes and maintenance of a well-engineered information system and ecosystems. We’re seeking skilled, automation-focused SREs to maintain and administer the PowerVS Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service environment and provide reliable and secure offering to clients. As a Compute Operations Site Reliability Engineer, you will perform the following tasks: • Remotely administer Power Server hardware environments across numerous datacenter locations around the world (currently 20 datacenters and growing). • Develop automation to reduce manual toil (automated, repetitive tasks) using shell scripts (bash, etc), Python, Ansible, and related tools and languages. • Perform code stack updates on infrastructure systems (VIOS, firmware, PowerVC, HMC, Novalink, NIM servers) as well as cloud supporting systems (jump servers, sobox, network nodes, gateways, TSM servers). • Upload/maintain stock images. • Remotely administer AIX and Linux servers • Maintain User IDs (Add/delete) and passwords. • Monitor daily/weekly backups to ensure they are working • Manage and maintain Nagios monitoring environment, troubleshoot scripts/plug-ins in case of issues. • Perform periodic Live Partition migrations, inactive migrations, or remote restarts of customer VMs to perform system maintenance, balance workloads, or free up resources. • Monitor and provide details of Capacity utilized in each Datacenter. • Attend scheduled meetings planned by customer for cutover/maintenance windows. • Verify capacity requirements in case of provisioning failure issues by customers. • Work with customers to resolve any RSCT issues so that LPM activities can be performed without impacting customer workloads. • In-depth knowledge of Power Server hardware. • Significant scripting/coding experience for automating all aspects of IBM Power systems administration. • Automation using Python, shell scripting (bash, etc), Ansible, and related tools and languages. • Experience with AIX and Linux administration, commands, and networking. • Strong experience in one or more of the following: VIO, Novalink, and PowerVC. Familiarity with one more (to include installation, configuration, administration). • In-depth knowledge of PowerVM including installation/configuration and administration. • High level knowledge of Power Systems supported Operating Systems (AIX and IBMi). • In-depth knowledge of how storage is connected and allocated to Power systems via NPIV connections. • Good understanding of Power Systems network configuration at the system level. • Experience with configuring and tuning PowerVC • Access PowerVS resources using IBM Cloud Portal, • IBM Cloud CLI, APIs, Terraform • Experience training new personnel on tooling and processes. • Storage & Power RTS, MVS Network for Cisco, Juniper; general support skills India Infrastructure & Technology Hybrid Internship Bangalore, IN Bangalore (0063) IBM India Private Limited Administration Red Hat Ansible Automation Bourne-again Shell Business Networking IBM Advanced Interactive Executive Linux Multiple Virtual Storage Operating Systems Power Systems Python Scripting Shell Scripting Storage Training Server hardware Coding Site Reliability Engineering Terraform Network Configuration Cisco PowerVM Tooling