6-month contract on W2 payroll.
Location; Mountain View, CA, remote work friendly
Our Y* Resource Management team is responsible for planning, procuring, and managing our machine and network resources. The team has broad expertise in our infrastructure and data center technologies. We build and use tools to monitor and manage hardware capacity. We also manage hardware costs relating to the IT budget. Projects which the team manages include helping to prioritize among multiple feature launches, advising on resource optimizations, and driving projects to improve efficiency. Being able to understand data and pull out relevant information to present recommendations for the team. Those applying MUST have SQL experience and be able to data visualizations. Our team supports operational work involved with the day to day management of production data center machine resources. We perform and track machine drains, monitor supply, and take action for key thresholds. We also allocate machine quota to services and configure data center resource pools. This role supports such internal customer requests.
Skill/Experience/Education
Mandatory:
- BS degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 1-2+ years of work experience
- Be proactive, strong analytical skills
- Familiarity with excel/spreadsheets
- Familiarity with google suite of applications: Gmail, docs, sheets, and slides
Desired:
- 1+ years of work experience
- Able to thrive and finish projects even when running into obstacles
- Familiarity with IT environments
- Familiarity with customer request ticketing system or software
- Be an awesome person to work with
Prescreen questions:
- Are you comfortable working around the core hours of 8 am to 5 pm *
- How comfortable are you with working in a terminal (using commands and bash scripts)? *
- How comfortable are you with using SQL to query data tables? *
- How comfortable are you programming using the Python language? *
- How comfortable are you learning new tools and integrating them? *