Sr Capacity Engineer

at  Servicenow

Company Description
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Job Description

ROLE:

As a Sr Capacity Engineer, your role will entail collaborating with a technically diverse team of engineers to deploy, maintain, and manage the capacity resources of the ServiceNow platform and infrastructure globally. In order to ensure optimal performance, you will also be responsible for the lifecycle management of these resources, employing your expertise to identify and rectify potential issues in a timely and efficient manner. This will require a strong attention to detail, as well as the ability to work both independently and as part of a team. By continually monitoring and optimizing the capacity resources, you will contribute to the overall success of the ServiceNow platform.

WHAT YOU GET TO DO IN THIS ROLE:

• Provide relief and sustainable resolution to issues within our infrastructure.
• Use your experience in software development, systems engineering, and networking to proactively prevent repeatable issues.
• Deployment of new capacity and managing a worldwide fleet of racks and servers.
• Manage and resolve challenging capacity issues/cases with and for ServiceNow partners.
• Ensure that all capacity, reliability, and availability needs can be met, on schedule.
• Collaborate with multiple different technical teams, including IA DevOps SRE and HSS support teams, to resolve issues and create new efficiencies.
• Create and/or refine existing processes and procedures to improve efficiencies within the environment.
• Drive a culture of intolerance to manual activity which results in a highly automated environment delivering scalable solutions.
  Qualifications

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE YOU HAVE:

• Deep knowledge of CentOS/Red Hat Linux.
• Substantial coding experience in various languages, we normally prefer Python or Javascript.
• Networking skills, IP addressing, and routing.
• MySQL/Postgres database administration.
• Monitoring of large and scalable systems, applications, and networks.
• Ability to troubleshoot multiple complex technical issues.
• Commitment to quality of work and attention to detail.
• Good understanding of different storage protocols like NFS, iSCSI, and NVMe/NVMeOF.
• Working knowledge of networking/server architecture and hardware.
• Excellent communication, time management, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong documentation skills with particular emphasis on technical processes and standards.
• Ability to learn new technologies and modify existing processes and procedures as needed.
• Ability to work in on-call that cover one weekend per month.