Desired Skills and Experience
- Architect, plan and engineer solutions for improving the services for hosted applications
- Participate in the improvement of high availability and application architecture in coordination with development
- Actively contribute to the configuration, layout and performance tuning of production infrastructure
- Establish plans (tools, techniques & practices) to monitor and manage the production environment
- Scripting administrative tasks for consistency and mass deployments
- Provide senior level expertise support on services and devices
- Transfer knowledge to implementation and operations staff
- Lead projects, working with the workgroup to achieve defined goals within set timelines
- Perform maintenance related activities during scheduled weekend maintenance windows
- 6-8 years of related experience in Linux Systems Administration
- Advanced knowledge and troubleshooting of Linux OS – CentOS specifically
- Working experience in either AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Working experience with Memcached, Consul, Kafka, Terraform, NGINX
- Working experience with Nomad, DCOS, Rancher, or similar technology
- Working experience with Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
- Working experience with Containers, Docker, automation and orchestration
- Effectively communicate issues and resolutions to all levels of the organization
- Ability to maintain confidentiality with sensitive customer and internal information
- Knowledge of Microsoft SQL, Cassandra, PostgreSQL
- Working knowledge of VMWare and EMC Storage
- Ability and desire to learn new skills quickly
- Certifications or an interest in pursuing certification