Desired Skills and Experience

  • Relational Databases (Postgres, Vertica)
  • Non-relational Databases (Mongo, etc.)
  • Reverse proxies (Nginx, HAProxy, Traefik, ELBs)
  • Search indexes (ElasticSearch, Solr)
  • Collectd, Prometheus, Fluentd
  • Grafana, PromDash
  • Consul, Vault
  • 5+ years’ full-time professional experience with Python and Bash
  • 5+ years’ prior experience with a configuration management tool, preferably Ansible
  • 5+ years’ experience with web infrastructure
  • 3+ years’ of experience working with DNS, TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, and general traffic manipulation with various proxy and reverse proxy tools
  • 3+ years’ experience with distributed and scaled systems architecture
  • Participation in an on-call rotation
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field required; Master’s degree preferred
  • Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
  • The successful candidate might also possess experience developing, advocating, and enforcing standards and best practices in managing medium-scale cloud and on-premises infrastructure comprising hundreds of individual systems
  • Proven experience in systems administration and engineering
  • Proficiency in managing Linux based systems and cloud infrastructure