Job Description
<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Technical Architect (OpenStack) - Communications / Intelligence Software firm</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Location: Indore / Remote / Hybrid</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/scrabble/" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Scrabble</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> has been mandated to hire an experienced Technical Architect for a leading Intelligence / Communication & Monitoring software firm.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">The client is a leading global provider of analytics and monitoring solutions, dedicated to empowering law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and national security organizations with tools for decision-making and insights to deal with cyber threats, terrorism, organized crime & malicious propaganda.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Responsibilities / Requirements:</span></u></b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Some essential requirements / responsibilities of the role include:</span></span></span></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Advising customers and colleagues on cloud and virtualization topics.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Working with the architecture team on cloud design projects using Openstack.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Collaborating with product, customer success, and presales on customer projects.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Setting up open stack environments for projects.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Designing, deploying, and maintaining OpenStack infrastructure.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Hands on experience with OpenStack framework. Ability to set up private cloud using OpenStack environment.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Strong experience with OpenStack services like Neutron, Cinder, Keystone, etc.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Ruby, or Go.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Strong knowledge of Linux systems administration and networking.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Familiarity with virtualization technologies like KVM or VMware.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Experience with configuration management and IaC tools like Ansible, Terraform.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Subject matter expertise of OpenStack security</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Sound knowledge of cloud computing concepts & technologies (docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ability to configure OpenStack environment for optimum resources.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Good knowledge of security, operations in an openstack environment</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Strong knowledge of Linux internals, networking, storage, security</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Strong knowledge of VMware Enterprise products (ESX, vCenter)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Hands on experience with HEAT orchestration</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Experience with CI/CD, monitoring, operational aspects</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Exposure to Big data technologies (Messaging queues, Hadoop/MPP, NoSQL databases)</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Hands on experience with open-source monitoring tools like Grafana/Prometheus/Nagios/Ganglia/Zabbix etc.</span></span></span></span></li>
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<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Pre-requisities / Qualifications</span></u></b></span></span></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Some of the essential qualifications for the role are:</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">B.Tech / BSc / MCA degree</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Minimum of 10-12 years of experience.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Experience in Product Development / Maintenance / Production Support (services).</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Basic understanding of business services for Fortune 1000 companies from an operational point of view</span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Any certification with regard to support services will be an added advantage</span></span></span></span></li>
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<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Note:</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> The role is based out of Indore, India but a Hybrid / Remote arrangement may be agreed for a befitting candidate.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">If you think you have the qualifications and skills for this exciting role, drop in your CV and details at </span><a href="nakul@scrabbleinc.in" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">nakul@scrabbleinc.in</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> for a chat.</span></span></span></span></p>