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