Desired Skills and Experience

  • be responsible for the administration of Linux-based systems (Debian and Ubuntu)
  • run software like nginx, Tomcat, PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, RabbitMQ in production quality and within a serious SLA
  • manage configuration changes and roll-outs, implement custom solutions
  • actively contribute towards bottleneck diagnosis and performance optimization
  • work closely together with the Engineering teams on performance, scalability and operability
  • run, troubleshoot and extend our Jenkins-based Continuous Delivery Pipeline
  • design and implement monitoring and fault detection strategies
  • significant previous experience with running Linux systems in a production environment, especially in the context of web applications
  • a very good understanding of networking and networking appliances: routing, switching, load balancers, firewalls
  • significant experience with running a relational database system under significant load (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
  • no trouble picking up a scripting language or two in order to implement custom solutions
  • previous experience in performance analysis and optimization on a Linux stack
  • experience with virtualization, container technology or configuration management is a plus

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