Job Details:
Linux Devops Engineer
A successful candidate will be a highly skilled Linux DevOps Engineer who is also passionate about systems stability, security and operational efficiency. If this describes you and you are able to thrive in a challenging, high-growth, and dynamic environment, please read on.
Responsibilities
- Develop automation and orchestration capabilities which allow us to operate at scale (an IAC mindset and approach to managing environments at scale).
- Work with operations and engineering team to ensure 24x7 availability of service offerings
- Develop, support, and document automated build and configuration management processes
- Optimize security of all operational systems
- Ensure comprehensive monitoring of all systems, including creation of dashboards for internal team use.
- Participate in delivery of new service offerings, working closely with development team to deliver low latency, high performance applications
- Analyze application characteristics and behavior, to optimize hardware configuration and performance of operational systems
Qualifications
- Team-centric mentality – comfortable working in a globally distributed team.
- Strong communication skills
- Solid interpersonal and organizational skills
- Excellent attention to detail and focus on quality
- Ability to manage multiple, varied activities
- Flexible approach to working, including on-call responsibilities
- Enthusiastic and motivated to drive change through technology
- Ability to work well under pressure
Candidate Profile:
- Bachelors or Master’s degree in appropriate technical discipline.
- 2+ year’s relevant technical experience
- Working experience of DevOps in a global environment Apache, Nginx web farms running high-volume database-driven applications – ideally RHCE qualified or equivalent GNU/Linux experience or qualification
- Solid TCP/IP networking experience and understanding
- MySQL experience including database tuning, high availability, replication and optimization.
- Experience with tools for automation of deployment, monitoring and management of systems, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Vagrant, SaltStack,
- Scripting and systems-related programming skills
- Network, OS and Application monitoring tools, such as Munin, Nagios, Zabbix