Senior Operations Engineer at Defiant Inc. () (allows remote)

Desired Skills and Experience

• At least 5 years of experience working in operations with a solid and complete foundational knowledge of operations.
• The ability to bring to life a production environment with applications and supporting services.
• The ability to manage servers and services in a high traffic production environment and to deploy new applications, servers and services into that environment.
• To be nimble, come up with creative solutions and have a mature approach to operations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Team player with a positive attitude in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with PHP and Node, Perl is a plus. This is not a programming position but we run a large number of servers and services. The role will require that you are adept with code to manage services efficiently.
• Experience with RabbitMQ.
• Experience with Ansible.
• Strong with MySQL, specifically performance optimization.
• Ability to collaborate with a team using Git and svn when needed.
• Strong on Apache and Nginx.
• Adept with Linux, and Ubuntu specifically. Familiarity with Debian a plus.
• Experience with AWS.
• Familiarity with virtualization including KVM, Proxmox and Virsh as well as guest performance tuning.
• Strong understanding of networking, including TCP/IP at all layers of the OSI, routing, switching and the ability to analyze network traffic for problems.
• Experience with and supporting security infrastructure is a plus, but not required – firewalls specifically SonicWall, IPS/IDS, VPN, various monitoring tools.
• A strong interest in information security.
• The ability to manage physical machines, including performing BIOS upgrades, managing hot swappable SCSI disks and everything else related to physical hardware.

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