Desired Skills and Experience
- Perform day-to-day system administration duties on Linux servers and PaaS / SaaS services across comScore’s environments, supporting business-critical systems
- Respond to and resolve incident tickets and monitoring alerts
- Automate common procedures used to resolve incidents and monitoring alerts
- Standardize and document common procedures that can’t be easily automated for hand-off to other resources or teams for execution
- Work with diverse teams to provide advice and assistance with budget estimates, tools choices, and to translate business needs to appropriate cloud native application design.
- Participate in rotating 24x7 on call schedule of production systems
- Fluent in Python, Ruby, Go or similar languages for developing Linux applications
- Fluent in the Linux command line and adept at system administrative tasks on Linux
- Experience with configuration management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, etc) is required
- Experience with Amazon Web Services is required
- Experience collaborating and managing source code with Git is required
- Excellent oral, written and computer communication skills with strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Able to work closely in a collaborative role with other team members in local and remote locations
- Able to manage day to day tasks while fielding interruptions
- Self-starter type of individual, willing to take on tasks and ask for help as needed
- Able to work with various development teams to implement and assist with best practices
- Familiarity with Continuous Delivery and software development / deployment concepts
- Understanding of basic networking and common internet protocols
- Amazon Certifications preferred