Linux Systems Engineer
New York, NY

Job Description

Responsibilities include

* Troubleshooting and resolving problems with other systems engineers, database administrators, software developers, and commercial business colleagues. Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills are essential.


* Participate in the design and development of highly available, fault tolerant, and scalable systems to support our mission-critical applications.


* Take responsibility for the success of your projects from conception to implementation. Effectively manage timelines, and identify all project requirements and roadblocks.


* Write puppet manifests to create all systems in a consistent and repeatable manner.


* Monitor system and network health, and address problems proactively.


* Respond to alerts, resolve or escalate issues as necessary, on-call rotation is required


* Create and maintain systems documentation and run-books



Minimum Qualifications

* 8+ Years experience as a Linux Systems Administrator or Engineer


* 3+ Years experience with Puppet, Ansible or other configuration management systems


* Must have existing experience with CentOS, RedHat or Oracle Enterprise Linux


* Experience implementing highly available systems in a 24x7 mission critical environment


* Scripting experience with Bash and Python


* Troubleshoot I/O, and system performance problems


* Solid understanding of TCP/IP, VLANs, and load balancing principles


* Excellent project management skills


* Strong emphasis on system security



Preferred Qualifications

* Experience with Hadoop, HDFS, and Spark


* Experience with messaging brokers such as Kafka and RabbitMQ


* Clustered products, Floating IP's, and multicast


* Experience with container management and orchestration. Kubernetes, CoreOS preferred.


* Service registration concepts and practices with Consul


* Monitoring and Log collection tools such as Nagios, CheckMK, Prometheus, Grafana, Graylog, Logstash, Kibana, and Filebeat.


* OSPF and BGP routing


* Experience with global scaling techniques such as GeoDNS and Anycast