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We are seeking a multi-stack cloud professional to help us grow and maintain our public cloud environments. We are a tight-knit, customer-focused, and highly collaborative engineering team that emphasizes knowledge sharing, skill development, and technical excellence.\nESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:\nSupport new and existing VMware, KVM, and ProxMox virtualization environments underpinning multiple public clouds\nSupport new and existing Cloudstack and vCloud Director environments in multi-tenant public clouds\nDevelop and improve process and workflows leveraging DevOps and Automation best practices in an Ansible and Git environment\nInstall, manage and maintain backup and DR infrastructure across Veeam and Zerto\nMonitor and optimize system performance and health across all supported systems\nTroubleshoot and resolve Tier 2 escalations across all supported systems\nInstall, patch or upgrade, troubleshoot, and repair FirstLight owned systems as required\nCreate and maintain high-quality systems documentation as required and/or appropriate.\nPerform special projects and other duties as assigned.\nFlexible work schedule required, may vary depending on needs of customer\nUpdates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.\nParticipate in on-call rotation.\n\nQUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE, and SKILLS :\nMust pass Background Check. Contingency for employment.\nA successful candidate will have experience in multiple technologies identified above, preferably in the same vendor stacks\nMinimum of three (3) years relevant experience; or equivalent combination of related education and experience. Prior work in a multi-tenant cloud environment is preferred\nExperience working in DevOps and Automation\nFirstLight strives for high integrity in all our dealings with customers, employees, and suppliers. A candidate must demonstrate this value system and represent that to customers in every engagement\nAbility to understand changing priorities and to act quickly and pivot from one task to another seamlessly\nEDUCATION:\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent preferred\nVendor trainings and/or certifications in the identified product stacks preferred such as: Red Hat (RHCE), Microsoft (MCSE), CompTIA Linux+, Cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP)\nBENEFITS:\n401(k) matching\nHealth insurance\nPaid time off\nSCHEDULE:\nMonday to Friday (standard)\nOn-Call Escalation Path as required for support activities (Rotational)\nWork Location: \nHybrid, with preference given to candidates who reside in the FirstLight footprint\nAbout FirstLight:\nFirstLight, headquartered in Albany, New York, provides fiber-optic data, Internet, data center, cloud and voice services to enterprise and carrier customers throughout the Northeast connecting more than 13,000 locations in service with more than 125,000 locations serviceable by our more than 25,000-route mile network. 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