Desired Skills and Experience
- Automate tasks such as server configuration and deployment
- Build and maintain monitoring and alerting infrastructure
- Rapidly expand our data processing pipeline (currently handling > 100K requests per second)
- Maintain high availability during traffic spikes, disasters, and malicious attacks
- Work closely with software development to make sure our systems are monitored and supported 24x7
- A hacker mindset
- A deep and abiding love of Linux. Or a respectful hatred for it. Either way, you’ll need to be able to sed/awk/grep like a pro.
- Background in deployment automation/configuration management.
- Experience with administering high-volume services.
- Have strong knowledge of network protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, SMTP etc), Monitoring Systems, virtualization and product experience with AWS (EC2, S3 and so on).
- Available to respond and handle after hour issues and be on call.
- Has a genuine interest in Open Source and has personal projects.
- Solid competency with SQL (ideally in a federated database environment, MySQL a plus)
- Fluency with the LAMP stack
- Knowledge of Python and its libraries
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