Desired Skills and Experience
- 5 years relevant experience in Cloud systems engineering (Junior: 2 years)
- Holds a graduate technical degree
- Holds equivalent industry qualifications (LPI Systems Administrator, RHCA/RHCE, AWS SysOps, CCNA/CCNP)
- Creating and improving a sustainable IT ecosystem
- Preparing for failures of various degrees
- Running the stack (Ruby on Rails, PHP @ Debian)
- Taking care of the Crown Jewels (Databases and message queues)
- Creating and optimizing self-service tasks
- Systems monitoring
- Troubleshooting and preventing unexpected major issues
- Employing better tools and processes
- Staying up-to-date
- Mentoring Juniors in the ways of DevOps
- Strong Systems Engineering/Administration skills in a virtualization/cloud environment (AWS/Azure/GCE, Xen/XenServer/KVM).
- Expert-level Linux Operating Systems administration experience (Debian/Ubuntu, CentOS, Amazon Linux, etc)
- Strong skills in managing, deploying and scaling web application frameworks (nginx, Ruby/Rails, Django, Symfony, etc).
- Excellent problem solving, troubleshooting skills in small-to-medium production systems and networks.
- Proficiency in at least one administration/scripting language (Ruby, Python, Go, Perl)
- Proficiency in at least one infrastructure automation framework (Ansible, SaltStack, Chef, Puppet)
- Storage and content delivery infrastructure management (NFS, S3, CloudFront, CloudFlare, Caching)
- Good network design/engineering skills (TCP/IP, Routing, DNS, Firewalling)
- Good communication skills, professional working proficiency in the English language
- Knowledge of monitoring and logging system deployment and usage (Icinga2/Nagios, Zabbix, ELK Stack, TICK Stack, Graylog)
- Junior should be able to cover all the greatness and excellence after 2 years with our experienced Senior
- Familiarity with MySQL, ElasticSearch, Postgresql, Redis, RabbitMQ
- Extending infrastructure automation frameworks (developing roles, playbook and scripts)
- Employing CI/CD best practices and tools (git, git-flow, jenkins)
- Containerization and workflow management (Docker/LXD, Kubernetes, Deis)
- Hashicorp IaaS Technologies (consul, terraform, nomad, packer, atlas)
- Code/Infrastructure Security and Hardening (OS permissions/limits, iptables, cloudflare)
- Structured Reporting/Documentation Skills