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We are hiring for multiple positions and experience levels from junior to senior.
Essential Duties Include:
The DevOps Engineer/ Linux Systems Administrator is primarily responsible for managing, monitoring and automating operations of a high-availability, high-scalability server infrastructure, performing in-depth performance tuning, as well as hardware troubleshooting and maintenance when necessary.
What we are looking for:
- Creativity, initiative and acute attention to detail
- Thirst for innovation and “thinking outside the box”.
- Vigor for automating everything repetitive.
- Obsession with software scalability and performance under high loads.
- Love for using and contributing to open-source software.
- Honesty, friendly attitude and good sense of humor.
We are looking for a talented and knowledgeable DevOps Engineer / Linux System Administrator: someone skilled in and passionate about Linux, server, network and storage infrastructure as well as automation. We are looking for a person who learns fast and can figure things out independently—can show us a better way of managing, monitoring and continuously deploying complex systems to the web.
We run a highly reliable and scalable Linux-based private infrastructure. We are passionate users of and contributors to the open-source software. Current application stack includes: Java, PHP and Node.js software talking to MySQL and ElasticSearch, as well as: various document databases and key/value stores.
Qualifications:
- Must have 3-10+ years relevant work experience.
- Fluency in Linux system administration (preferably in Debian/Ubuntu).
- Fluency bash scripting, python, other languages a plus.
- Fluency in administering Apache and/or Nginx web-servers.
- Extensive experience administering Linux in a virtualization environment.
- MySQL administration and troubleshooting experience.
- Experience with clustered file system technologies such as Isilon, Gluster, etc.
- Experience with TCP/IP networking technologies (routing, switching, Cisco, Brocade, F5, etc).
- Experience with content delivery networks such as Akamai and Limelight.
- Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Rackspace, Openstack, etc.
- Solid track record of deploying and scaling redundant infrastructure.
- Experience with document databases: Dynamo, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.
- Experience working with a configuration management tool e.g. Chef, Puppet, Ansible.
- Proven ability to write clear, concise documentation.
- Cares greatly about automation and has little tolerance for repetitive manual work.
Bonus Points for:
- Experience working with a version control system (SVN or Git preferred).
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Nagios, Zabbix, Cacti, etc.
- Programming experience / ability.
- “Addiction” to building fault-tolerant, highly reliable systems.
What else?
- We are a Linux and Mac-friendly group, if that’s your kind of thing.
- We are diverse, lifelong learners.
- We strongly believe in and follow a culture that is open, transparent, inclusive, and collaborative.
- We are a friendly bunch and expect the same from you, too.
Does this sound like you? If so, we want to hear from you. All applications must include a resume and cover letter to be considered.
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