Desired Skills and Experience
- You will report and solve problems within the Elastic Cloud infrastructure services and collaborate on issues with developers
- Handle day to day operations around the Elastic Cloud such as customer trouble tickets, managing cloud provider infrastructure (maintenance/ expansion), and software deployments
- You will develop and improve tooling to deploy and run the Elastic Cloud product and infrastructure
- Demonstrate and promote best practices for teams using cloud platforms
- You have multiple years hands-on experience administering Linux, preferably with distributed systems with some scale
- One or more years of AWS, GCP and/or Azure experience is a requirement
- You possess experience automating production Linux systems collaboratively, deriving configuration through version control
- Comfortable writing software to automate API-driven tasks at scale; The SRE team uses Python and some Go, where the developers use Scala, Python, and Java
- You have used Ansible/Puppet/Chef or another config management suite, know where it’s broken, and open to trying new things
- Healthy knowledge of Linux (have compiled your own kernel at some point, know how to trace syscalls, understand TCP, care about the difference between sysvinit/runit/systemd, etc.)
- Relentless desire to automate and build software tools
- Desire to represent work in git, driven by a GitHub workflow through issues and pull requests
- Love open source development, and have contributed to some project somewhere (doesn’t have to be ours), whether through mailing lists, patches, documentation, etc.
- Enjoy working remotely and the communication it requires
- Love a diverse environment, working with men and women all over the world
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