Desired Skills and Experience
- Good Linux skills (CoreOS is a plus)
- Experience running distributed, loosely coupled web applications
- Experience running and troubleshooting a complete software stack written in Java and gathering JVM insights for troubleshooting, tuning
- Basic networking knowledge (BGP experience is a plus), HTTP is a must
- Programming and scripting skills in: Bash, Python, Groovy, (Golang is a plus), use of GIT SCM
- Aptitude to configure and build software runtime environments through code
- Linux Containers, Docker/rkt and associated ecosystem of tools
- Kubernetes (highly desirable)
- Prometheus and ElasticSearch
- Comfortable building dashboards based on Grafana and Kibana and gathering actionable insights
- Jenkins CD (especial focus on pipeline feature), the ability to program pipelines in Groovy
- Ansible
- Terraform
- AWS
- VMWare vSphere
- Configuring hardware Load Balancers, like A10 or F5
- Operational experience with Apache Cassandra