Desired Skills and Experience
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- At least 2 years of experience managing or administrating CentOS Linux servers.
- At least 2 years of experience with a configuration management tool like Chef, Puppet, or Ansible. (Ansible preferred.)
- At least 2 years of experience with Amazon Web Services, including S3, EC2, ELB, VPC, and Cloud Formation.
- At least 1 year working with a continuous integration platform like Bamboo, TeamCity, Circle CI or Jenkins. (Jenkins Preferred).
- An almost fanatical security mindset. You’d introduce SELinux and IP Tables, even if we weren’t already using them.
- Exposure to Elasticsearch and Rabbit MQ in a clustered environment.
- Excellent communication skills.
- A desire to do things right and the ability to take ownership of difficult problems.
- Enough experience with Agile development methodologies to see their strengths and weaknesses.
- Experience with Github or Bitbucket as well as the Atlassian suite of stuff everybody seems to use these days.
- Payment card industry experience or experience building PCI compliant systems.
- Experience with custom PXE based hardware imaging techniques. (Anaconda, kickstart, etc.)
- Experience building and deploying software as RPM’s. (You’ve created an RPM build spec.)
- Experience with a log analysis and visualization tool like Splunk or the ELK Stack.
- Experience with New Relic or Raygun.