Desired Skills and Experience
- Critical alert response, tuning, management
- Operational tool creation, routine task automation
- Operational runbook development, execution, improvements
- Server administration, troubleshooting
- Traffic engineering, DNS management, DDOS mitigation
- IP transit partner maintenance coordination
- Escalation support for internal teams
- New POP deployment, configuration, activation
- End-to-end ownership and accountability for all Edge Cloud activities and incidents
- Comprehensive knowledge of how CDNs work: TCP/IP, BGP anycast, DNS, HTTP, TLS, reverse proxies, etc
- Experience in data center routing and switching systems
- Hands-on experience operating a global network and/or a globally distributed Linux-based system
- Capable of troubleshooting and diagnosing failures of hardware in a data center environment. Everything from SSD’s to AOC cables are fair game for ECO
- Development or administrative experience in a Linux-based environment, and associated open-source tools (Chef, Ansible, Git, Awk, Sed, cURL, etc)
- Solid understanding of how the internet works - from client to server, and everything in-between. HAProxy, nginx, and Varnish are not foreign to you
- Cultivation of various monitoring platforms, such as Datadog, Nagios, Ganglia, Icinga, Pingdom, Catchpoint, Cedexis and others
- Exposure to cloud environments and systems like AWS, GCE, Azure, Softlayer
- Data analysis using tools and systems like Deepfield, MySQL, Google BigTable
- An innate curiosity and inquisitiveness
- 3+ years of direct involvement with network and/or systems engineering in a web-scale production environment
- 3+ years working with at least one of: Perl, Python, Go, Ruby
- B.A. or B.S. in an engineering or computer-related field of study or equivalent on-the-job training