DevOps Engineer/Linux Systems Administrators at National Public Radio (Washington, DC)
Desired Skills and Experience
- Creativity, initiative and acute attention to detail
- Thirst for innovation and “thinking outside the box”.
- Vigor for automating everything repetitive.
- Obsession with software scalability and performance under high loads.
- Love for using and contributing to open-source software.
- Honesty, friendly attitude and good sense of humor.
- We are a Linux and Mac-friendly group, if that’s your kind of thing.
- We are diverse, lifelong learners.
- We strongly believe in and follow a culture that is open, transparent, inclusive, and collaborative.
- We are a friendly bunch and expect the same from you, too.
- Must have 3-5 years relevant work experience
- Fluency in Linux system administration (preferably in Debian/Ubuntu)
- Fluency in Linux scripting: shell scripting, lightweight PHP and/or Perl scripting.
- Fluency in administering Apache and/or Nginx web-servers
- Extensive experience administering Linux in a virtualization environment.
- MySQL administration and troubleshooting experience
- Experience with clustered file system technologies such as Isilon, Gluster, etc
- Experience with TCP/IP networking technologies (routing, switching, Cisco, Brocade, F5, etc)
- Experience with content delivery networks such as Akamai and Limelight.
- Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Rackspace, Openstack, etc
- Solid track record of deploying and scaling redundant infrastructure
- Experience with document databases (preferably MongoDB)
- Experience working with at least one of:
Ansible Chef Puppet
- Ansible
- Chef
- Puppet
- Proven ability to write clear, concise documentation
- Cares greatly about automation and has little tolerance for repetitive manual work
- Experience working with a version control system (SVN or Git preferred).
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Nagios, Zabbix, Cacti, etc.
- Advanced scripting/programming chops.
- “Addiction” to building fault-tolerant, highly reliable systems.