Cloud Engineer

About Us:

At apexanalytix, we’re lifelong innovators! Since the date of our founding nearly four decades ago we’ve been consistently growing, profitable, and delivering the best procure-to-pay solutions to the world. We’re the perfect balance of established company and start-up. You will find a unique home here.

And you’ll recognize the names of our clients. Most of them are on The Global 2000. They trust us to give them the latest in controls, audit and analytics software every day. Industry analysts consistently rank us as a top supplier management solution, and you’ll be helping build that reputation.

Read more about apexanalytix - https://www.apexanalytix.com/about/

Job Details

The Role

Quick Take -

We are looking for a highly skilled systems engineer with experience working with Virtualization, Linux, Kubernetes, and Server Infrastructure. The engineer will be responsible to design, deploy, and maintain enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure using Apache CloudStack or similar technology, Kubernetes on Linux operating system.

The Work -

Hypervisor Administration & Engineering

• Architect, deploy, and manage Apache CloudStack for private and hybrid cloud environments.
• Manage and optimize KVM or similar virtualization technology
• Implement high-availability cloud services using redundant networking, storage, and compute.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using OpenTofu, Ansible, and API scripting.
• Troubleshoot and optimize hypervisor networking (virtual routers, isolated networks), storage, and API integrations.
• Working experience with shared storage technologies like GFS and NFS.

Kubernetes & Container Orchestration

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  Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters in on-premises and hybrid environments.
• Integrate Cluster API (CAPI) for automated K8s provisioning.
• Manage Helm, Azure Devops, and ingress (Nginx/Citrix) for application deployment.
• Implement container security best practices, policy-based access control, and resource optimization. Linux Administration
• Configure and maintain RedHat HA Clustering (Pacemaker, Corosync) for mission-critical applications.
• Manage GFS2 shared storage, cluster fencing, and high-availability networking.
• Ensure seamless failover and data consistency across cluster nodes.
• Perform Linux OS hardening, security patching, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. Physical Server Maintenance & Hardware Management
• Perform physical server installation, diagnostics, firmware upgrades, and maintenance.
• Work with SAN/NAS storage, network switches, and power management in data centers.
• Implement out-of-band management (IPMI/iLO/DRAC) for remote server monitoring and recovery.

• Ensure hardware resilience, failure prediction, and proper capacity planning. Automation, Monitoring & Performance Optimization • Automate infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and self-healing capabilities.

• Implement Prometheus, Grafana, and custom scripting via API for proactive monitoring.

• Optimize compute, storage, and network performance in large-scale environments. • Implement disaster recovery (DR) and backup solutions for cloud workloads. Collaboration & Documentation

• Work closely with DevOps, Enterprise Support, and software Developers to streamline cloud workflows. • Maintain detailed infrastructure documentation, playbooks, and incident reports.

• Train and mentor junior engineers on CloudStack, Kubernetes, and HA Clustering.

The Must-Haves -

• Strong expertise in Apache CloudStack (4.19+) or similar virtualization platform, KVM hypervisor, and Cluster API (CAPI).
• Extensive experience in RedHat HA Clustering (Pacemaker, Corosync) and GFS2 shared storage.
• Proficiency in OpenTofu, Ansible, Bash, Python, and Go for infrastructure automation.
• Experience with networking (VXLAN, SDN, BGP) and security best practices.
• Hands-on expertise in physical server maintenance, IPMI/iLO, RAID, and SAN storage.
• Strong troubleshooting skills in Linux performance tuning, logs, and kernel debugging.
• Knowledge of monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Alert manager).

Preferred Qualifications • Experience with multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) or hybrid cloud environments. • Familiarity with CloudStack API customization, plugin development. • Strong background in disaster recovery (DR) and backup solutions for cloud environments. • Understanding of service meshes, ingress, and SSO. • Experience is Cisco UCS platform management.

Over the years, we’ve discovered that the most effective and successful associates at apexanalytix are people who have a specific combination of values, skills, and behaviors that we call “The apex Way”. Read more about The apex Way - https://www.apexanalytix.com/careers/

Benefits

At apexanalytix we know that our associates are the reason behind our successes. We truly value you as an associate and part of our professional family. Our goal is to offer the very best benefits possible to you and your loved ones. When it comes to benefits, whether for yourself or your family the most important aspect is choice. And we get that. apexanalytix offers competitive benefits for the countries that we serve, in addition to our BeWell@apex initiative that encourages employees’ growth in six key wellness areas: Emotional, Physical, Community, Financial, Social, and Intelligence.

With resources such as a strong Mentor Program, Internal Training Portal, plus Education, Tuition, and Certification Assistance, we provide tools for our associates to grow and develop.