Desired Skills and Experience
- Maintaining and improving systems infrastructure and application development platform for a leading global destination and platform for Japanese anime and Asian content
- Improving and developing best practices for building scalable, reliable services
- Identifying and understanding existing system architecture and design projects to improve it
- Building and configuring automation and internal tools to support infrastructure and development teams
- Maintaining and improving our configuration management tools
- Ensuring operational best practices by work closely with our development and release engineering teams
- BS in Computer Science, related field or equivalent software or operations engineering experience
- Experience with configuration management systems
- Linux/Unix systems administration or development experience
- Your reflex is to automate, and you’ve done it at scale
- Appreciation of continuous integration, delivery, testing, etc.
- You advocate process and security
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. The ability to influence others with your ideas
- At least 4+ years experience as an Infrastructure, Production, Systems or DevOps Engineer
- 4+ years experience in Linux systems administration, ideally in RHEL/CentOS
- Demonstrated ability to understand complex systems, and drilling down to resolve problems
- Proven ability to innovate new ideas and projects to automate existing and legacy systems
- Strong experience with AWS and scaling virtualized environments
- Experience with deployments and resolving issues quickly
- Experience with Vagrant, Chef, and Jenkins
- Proven ability to support a service oriented architecture
- Experience with centralized logging stacks such as ELK
- Experience with version control systems, such as Git and writing version control system hooks
- Knowledge of monitoring and graphing systems (Nagios/Icinga, Cacti, Ganglia, Graphite)
- Strong experience with current web and Internet technologies like NGinx, Redis, MariaDB, MySQL, CDN, DNS
- Experience with cloud and virtualization platforms like VirtualBox, Xen, Hyper-V, Openstack is a plus
- Strong experience with networking technologies (Load Balancers, Firewalls, Switches, etc) is a plus
- Experience writing libraries or applications in Python is a plus