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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