We are looking for a talented, driven, and dedicated Site Reliability Engineer. We have a never-ending need for innovation in order to meet the needs of our ever-changing environment. You’ll help maintain our growing infrastructure, ensuring our site stays up and performs well all while refining our process for operating our production environment. You will have authority in designing and implementing the network, hardware, and software systems we use to host, conduct, and monitor our production environment. Additionally, you have a strong desire and aptitude to learn new technologies as needed to keep up to speed with our customer needs.Responsibilities:

  • Deploy, configure, and support a multi-vendor network infrastructure in data centers, and enterprise environments, consisting of routers, switches, and firewalls.
  • Provide troubleshooting support for complex hosting and enterprise network environments.
  • Collaborate deeply with a cross functional team of Network and Security Architects, Software Developers and Engineers, Server and Platform Engineers, and Data Center Operations. You will do more than just maintain a network.
  • DevOps for network infrastructure as well as systems infrastructure.
  • Support networking infrastructure for VOIP systems.

  • Mentor junior team members.Requirements:

  • BS Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math, or equivalent work experience.
  • Experience in OSPF and BGP implementation and troubleshooting in both carrier and hosting environments
  • Expertise with Cisco and Brocade routers, switches, firewalls and Arista switches.
  • Expertise identifying and mitigating DDoS and other network based attacks.
  • Ability to comprehend, analyze and research problems of a complex nature, make judgment decisions and recommendations and lead the implementation into a production environment.
  • Extensive experience using Network Management/Monitoring tools (e.g. RANCID, Nagios, observium, librenms, netflow, etc).
  • Strong desire to learn emerging technologies and to innovate.
  • Skilled with Bash and at least one other scripting language (Python, Perl, PHP etc).
  • Experience with configuration management systems (eg. Puppet, Chef, Saltstack, etc) and version control (eg. git, svn).
  • 5+ years Linux Administration experience.
  • 5+ years of relevant networking experience.
  • Experience with Linux HA, clustering and load balancing solutions.
  • LAMP deployment and administration skills.

  • Deep understanding of how TCP/IP and the Network stack functions.Pluses:

  • Expertise in Transport technologies, such as MPLS in a provider environment.
  • Experience working in an agile environment.
  • Experience with iSCSI and Nexenta or ZFS.
  • 3+ years working in a large scale hosting environment.
  • Experience working with LVE containment solutions.
  • Prior work using any of the following: Cassandra, Hadoop, Hive, ElasticSearch, Kibana, LogStash, Openstack, Spacewalk, Jenkins.

  • CCNP certification or equivalent is preferred.What’s in it for you:

  • Competitive salary.
  • Full health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance.
  • 401(k) matching.
  • “Freeloader” Lunch Friday’s, bagel Monday’s, and multiple stacked kitchens to keep the engine fueled.
  • Tuition Reimbursement.
  • Ping-Pong, video game consoles, pool table, monthly happy hours, and other fun events (Yes the rumor is true, Snoop Dogg played at our Holiday party).
  • And yes, even Rover is welcomed at work! No visa sponsorship available for this position.About (mt) Media TempleFrom its inception in 1998, Los Angeles-based Media Temple has been providing premium web hosting and cloud services to web developers, designers, digital entrepreneurs and creative agencies. Over 125,000 people and businesses in 100 countries rely on our services and our premier, award-winning 24/7 customer support to power 1.5 million websites, from WordPress blogs and portfolio sites to small business sites, e-commerce, and beyond.We value our employees and are proud to have a great company culture that offers generous benefits, including competitive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k) matching, and uniquely generous paid time off plans, which are some of the things that have helped make us a repeat entry on the Los Angeles Business Journal’s annual ranking of Best Places to Work in LA. We also offer a competitive salary, casual dress code, “Freeloader” lunch Fridays, bagel Mondays, and plenty of other snacks to keep the engine fueled, ping pong battles, monthly happy hours and other fun company events. And yes, even Rover is welcome at work!Media Temple, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. At Media Temple, we’re in the business of hosting great ideas. We’re also here to help build great careers for you! Isn’t this where you really want to be? Apply today!

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