Desired Skills and Experience

• Develop and uses tools for systems and infrastructure automation.
• Manage and support Agoda’s container platform.
• Manage and support Agoda’s large scale Openstack private cloud.
• Troubleshoot system and OS level issues at scale across multiple global DCs.
• Research and development of infrastructure service improvements and presentations during design reviews with stakeholders around the business.
• Manage custom packages.
• Mentoring of other System Engineers within the team including technical documentation and training.
• At least 5+ years in systems engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in IT, Computer Science, Engineering or any field
• Technical experience in:
• Linux (CentOS/RH preferred)
• Containers (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Configuration Management (eg. Ansible, Puppet and Salt Stack)
• Experienced in scripting such as Bash, Python, Powershell etc.
• Database administration. Knowledge of (or willingness to learn) NoSQL databases (Elasticsearch or Cassandra would be beneficial). Knowledge of caching.
• General Networking understanding (switches, routing, firewalls).
• Monitoring/Alerting/Logging Services (eg. Sensu, Nagios, Logstash, Graphite, Grafana, Kibana)
• Understanding of Auth/Directory services
• Understanding of storage concepts
• Virtualisation (KVM is preferred).
• Experience working with large and dynamic server farms, preferably in the e-commerce space.
• Knowledge of OpenStack operation and its API’s is advantageous
• Experience collaborating with developers and operations in DevOps enabled environments.
• Experience working in a large enterprise organisation and dynamic environment.
• Knowledge of Microsoft products is desirable
• Development experience in python or ruby is desirable
• Able to work under pressure and deliver projects on time.
• Self-motivated, approachable, and adaptable and have excellent communication skills (both strong written and verbal English is a must).
• A strong desire to learn.
• The desire to keep up with the latest technologies and stay ahead of the curve.
• Great communication and interpersonal skills; a good sense of humour is always a plus.
• Mindset of a team player.

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