#Intro As a systems engineer you will work with a small DevOps team supporting existing systems, and helping to build and deploy new ones. We are a Linux server environment operating mostly in VMs.
#Responsibilities:
- Help support a production stack that supports scalable, stable, and fast back-end services.
- Develop a deep understanding of dependencies within our infrastructure, so that you can help avoid and mitigate security, reliability and performance exposures.
- Communicate the design and operation of the production environment to non engineers.
- Own back-end services like our databases, and server side applications as well as front-end services like web based end user tools, infrastructure components like RabbitMQ, and everything in between
#Requirements:
- Extremely sound knowledge of UNIX (Linux) and TCP/IP network fundamentals
- Sharp and tenacious troubleshooting skills: you can fix anything
- Experience supporting live production infrastructure, can put out fires under pressure when things go wrong.
- Good knowledge of basic large-scale internet service architectures (such as load balancing, LAMP,) even if you haven't worked on one
- Configuration and maintenance of common applications such as Apache, MySQL, NFS, DHCP, NTP, SSH, DNS
- Solid understanding of SQL, relational (e.g., Mysql) databases
#Bonuses
- Familiarity with NoSQL technologies like Redis, CouchDB, Cassandra.
- Ability to Read Code
- Ability and Desire to troubleshoot or write code