The successful engineer in this role will:
- Understand how commodity servers, operating systems and networks function, perform and scale.
- Possess superb troubleshooting, project management and problem analysis skills.
- Drive technical innovation and efficiency in infrastructure operations via automation.
- Design server monitoring and management solutions using automation and self-repair.
- Create processes that enhance operational workflow and provide positive customer impact.
- Dive deep to resolve problems at their root, looking for failure patterns amenable to long-term solutions via simplification and automation.
- Avoid re-inventing the wheel and prefer appropriately simple, repeatable solutions over more complex and failure prone ones.
- Recognize and adopt best practices in documentation, testing, security, operational support at scale, and efficient use of resources.
- Develop appropriate metrics to demonstrate performance at improving operational efficiency.
Requirements
- In depth knowledge of & experience deploying and operating Linux or other UNIX variants in a datacenter environment.
- Relentless passion for frugality and out-of-the-box engineering.
- Strong system troubleshooting skills.
- Proficiency and experience in automation via Perl/Python programming and shell scripting.
- Good understanding of standard internet protocols (Ethernet, ARP, IP, ICMP, UDP, TCP, SSL, DNS, HTTP, etc.)
- Demonstrable grasp of security best practices in server configuration, tool development, and access controls.
- Experience in building SQL queries.
Highly Desirable Attributes:
- Knowledge of C, C++ or Java.
- Knowledge of VCS (git, mercurial, svn).
- Understanding of AWS technologies .
- Experience deploying or managing servers in large-scale, geographically diverse environments.
- Understanding & experience of managing and monitoring large scale disk sub-systems.
- Operational knowledge of common enterprise switching and routing platforms
