MTS Systems Engineer

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MTS SYSTEMS ENGINEER

THE ROLE:

The Cloud Administrator will be responsible for providing technical support to Engineering and Corporate organizations at AMD. This position will be required to support AMD’s global cloud infrastructure in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Furthermore, this person will be collaborating globally on efforts for various IT activities related to the AMD Engineering AI/GPU - Compute Environment, in accordance with AMD Worldwide IT strategies and objectives.

WORK RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Design, develop, deploy, monitor, maintain, and evolve cloud-native resources, tools, services, reusable modules (infrastructure-as-code-practices) and frameworks to secure and automate provisioning of cloud infrastructure that empowers our users across Azure, AWS, GCP.
• Provide customers with standards and best practices on how to deploy and consume cloud-based services.  
• Proactively seek opportunities to improve operational efficiency of teams and usage of cloud services.
• Develop, implement, and maintain GPU-based clusters, ensuring optimal performance
• Contribute to a strong team-culture and an atmosphere of cross-functional teamwork.
• Work with internal customers in managing incident tickets to achieve operational excellence.
• Work with global team to provide support and complete IT projects.
• Create secure hybrid deployments of virtual machines, and PaaS solutions in Azure, AWS, GCP.
• Work with Project teams to understand and accommodate application architecture and the App’s specific requirements for Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise for IaaS, PaaS, and Saas deployment.
• Collaborate with onshore and offshore resources.
• Implementing and automating security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation by closely partnering with the Security Team to incorporate respective requirements and best practices to keep our Cloud Env safe and secure.
• Applies experience in migrating on-premises applications and workloads to Azure, AWS, GCP using cloud technologies and provide support.
• Drive’s identity (IAM), access, and configuration management for cloud native tools.
• Responsible for the Recovery and Continuity process for cloud environments.

EXPERIENCE/REQUIREMENTS: 

Cloud Systems Engineer general experience of various CSPs fundamentals with: 

• 3+ years experiences in Azure, AWS, GCP
• Terraform, YAML, Jenkins, GitHub actions, Hashicorp, CI/CD buildout.
• Python, Golang, Shell, Java/J2EE, NodeJS, ReactJS, HTML5, PyTorch, TensorFlow
• REST API, GraphQL, Design Patterns, NOSQL, RDBMS, Elasticsearch, Redis Cache
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field
• Experience with Container technologies (GKE, EKS, ECS, Docker, Kubernetes) is desirable.
• Able to build and support a full CI/CD pipeline to support consistent code deployment.
• Preferred understanding of AI framework where you can model large datasets, build, and test AI software to ensure desired model performance results.
• Preferred experience in developing and implement machine learning models and algorithms to solve complex business problems and enhance AI-driven applications.
• Managing GPU clusters optimizing GPU-based services/tools/software
• Understand CHANGE Management/Release Process
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Ability to effectively communicate technical issues and solutions to peers and external vendors.
• Strong active listening and consensus-building skills and passionate about learning and sharing knowledge with others.
• Infrastructure automation like Ansible, Terraform
• Designing, developing, and implementing solutions that improve efficiency and reduce costs through Kubernetes/containers, virtualization, functions, and automation.
• Building and managing complex cloud environments in Azure, AWS, GCP including security measures for encryption, authorization, and protocols.
• Monitoring system performance, conducting capacity planning, identifying trends, and providing recommendations to improve service levels via automation.
• Working closely with software development teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
• Experience deploying, managing, administering, and migrating Infrastructure platforms in a Hybrid environment.
• Strong understanding of different deployment resource types and when to deploy each type (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• Knowledge of HPC environments including cloud providers like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS Partners.
• Experience with Cloud native monitoring tools and also Nagios, ELK stack, Kibana/Prometheus.
• Proactive and empathetic mindset - you love to roll up your sleeves to fix problems for our customers.
• Skilled in effectively working with senior level management.
• Ability to juggle multiple projects and priorities and re-prioritize as necessary to align with current business.

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