Responsibilities
- Assist in the design, planning and implementation of server solutions
- Tune and design systems infrastructure for maximum available performance
- Automation of manual tasks using scripting and application development
- Investigate and adopt new technologies/tools as needs arise
- Respond to and assist in production operations in a 24/7 environment
- Evaluate, test, and integrate new operating system versions, drivers, and patches
- Provide technical analysis, resolve problems, and propose solutions
- Provide support to, and coordinate with, developers, operations staff, release engineers, and end-users
- Educate and mentor team members and operations staff
- Participate in a weekly on-call rotation for after-hours support
Knowledge and Experience
- 5+ years of experience with Linux operating systems (RedHat variants preferred)
- Solid experience coding with any combination of Python, Ruby, Bourne, PowerShell, APIs, and others
- Familiarity with git, subversion, foreman, katello, Jenkins, or equivalent
- Demonstrable knowledge of multi-tiered, highly available, and resilient application design
- Knowledge of horizontal and vertical scaling for performance and stability
- Familiarity with low-latency / high-frequency compute environments
- Understanding of virtualization and experience with VMWare
- Top-tier analytics and problem solving
- Ability to work in a service-oriented team environment
- Project Management, organization, and time management
- Customer focused, and dedicated to the best possible user experience
- Communicate effectively with both technical and business resources
Desired
- Degree in engineering discipline or equivalent experience in Systems Engineering
- Intermediate understanding of application and server virtualization
- Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift or equivalent container platform
- Experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef, Ansible or an equivalent
- Ability to perform network analysis with tools, tcpdump, wireshark, tshark
