Infrastructure as Code developer
Function
EngineeringOur Company
We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers - from banks to theme parks - can focus on achieving the incredible with data.
If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate - and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team - and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.
Job description
The Team:
The Hitachi Vantara Infrastructure Platform Solutions Engineering is looking for a developer with strong Python Full Stack developer to work on key technical projects for the storage portfolio. This role will initially focus on the development of our VSP One Block Ansible Modules and Terraform Providers, with close alignment and collaboration to other development projects within the Product Organization at large - such as Plugins, and partner product integration
The Role:
- Requirement analysis, design, code, unit test and fix defects in a range of scenarios such as regular release cycles, prototypes, customer escalations and PoCs.
- Design, develop, and maintain custom Ansible modules and roles in Python to automate data center infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and storage operations.
- Write efficient Go code utilizing goroutines and channels to handle heavy traffic and concurrent tasks for storage centric products. Efficiently leveraging AI tools in a responsible manner.
- Collaborate with Go developers on Terraform provider development; contribute to provider testing, validation, and documentation.
- Own existing automation feature sets and continually expand capabilities to support new product requirements and customer use cases.
- Interface with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB) to store and manipulate data efficiently.
- Liaise with development, test, and solutions engineering groups to isolate performance bottlenecks and resolve technical issues encountered by internal teams and customers.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, optimizing code for speed and scalability. Working closely with PM, PO, and product development teams to identify and improve product functionalities and capabilities.
- Agile Development practices and execution.
- Working with and as needed managing containerize applications. Deploying them using tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
What you'll bring
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (IT/ Computer Science or equivalent)
- Python object-oriented software product developer with 5 years of experience. Must have a strong history of multi-threading, locking, and caching. Inclusive of its Frameworks (Django/FastAPI/Flask).
- Experience in managing SQL and Non-SQL Databases like MSSQL/PostgreSQL/MongoDB (MSSQL a must)
- Be familiar with LINUX systems, JSON format processing, and Selenium.
- Hands-on experience with UI technologies like Angular and JavaScript.
- Good knowledge of Project Setup with GIT, IIS, and Jenkins.
- Must have hands-on experience authoring custom Ansible modules in Python, including module argument specs, Ansible module usage, error handling, idempotency design, and integration with Ansible collections.
- Experience packaging and publishing Ansible Collections to Ansible Galaxy or a private automation hub.
- Must have experience developing and consuming Terraform modules; familiarity with Terraform state management, resource lifecycle, and infrastructure-as-code best practices.
- Go programming with 5 years of experience. Must have a strong history of go routine concurrency, channels, mutexes, context propagation, and access control.
- Must have hands-on experience authoring Terraform providers in Go using the Terraform Plugin SDK v2 or Plugin Framework, including resource and data source implementation, schema design, state management, and acceptance testing.
- Experience publishing and maintaining internal and public Github libraries.
- Experience publishing and maintaining providers in the Terraform Registry.
- Experience with at least one top cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Minimum of 5 years on Linux, including shell scripting, and CI/CD pipeline development.
- Excellent writing and documentation skills in creating test procedures, workflows, diagrams, and user guides.
- Great verbal communication (including presentations and providing technical training).
- A team player and fast technology adoption is a must.
- Most importantly, a growth mindset!
Great to Have Skills
- SAN storage experience - familiarity with Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NVMe-oF, and storage array management APIs (e.g., Hitachi VSP/VSP One, NetApp, Pure Storage (Everpure), HPE).
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About us
We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.
Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
How we look after you
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.