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Technical Operations Engineer
New York, NY

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About Us

NS1 optimizes delivery of the world's most critical internet and enterprise applications. Only NS1's platform is built on a modern API-first architecture that acts on real-time data and grows more powerful in complex environments, transforming DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (IPAM) into an intelligent, efficient, and automated system. NS1's technology drives dramatic gains in IT efficiency and application performance, reliability, and security for the largest global enterprises, including Salesforce, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Nielsen, Pitney Bowes, Squarespace, Pandora and The Guardian. We solve incredibly challenging problems on behalf of our customers in the most mission critical parts of their stack.

The Role:

We are looking to add someone to our growing Technical Operations team. We are seeking an individual who is always up for creative problem solving and communicating with a variety of teams across the organization. Remote applicants are welcome, as well as applicants that are looking for non-traditional schedules. You'll be working with a globally diverse operations team, supporting our mission-critical application by resolving incidents and alerts, mitigating DDoS attacks, creating documentation and dashboards, and keeping NS1's infrastructure running smoothly.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

* Participation in 24x7 on call rotation
* Incident management and post mortems
* Writing clear and concise documentation
* Creating and maintaining metrics, dashboards and alerting
* Deploying and automating certain aspects of the platform

Your Skills:

* Linux system administration knowledge
* Experience being part of an on-call rotation for critical systems
* Experience with distributed systems
* Excellent communication skills (verbal & written)
* Understanding of internet protocols
* Familiarity with Ansible or other automation tools
* Eagerness to participate in continuous process improvement
* Incident management experience

Nice to have:

* Familiarity with DNS protocol
* Experience with traffic load balancing, filtering, and DDoS mitigation tools
* Experience writing documentation
* Experience with writing scripts
* Experience with testing, selecting and maintaining hardware
* ELK Stack
* Grafana
* JunosOS
* BPF, iptables, packet analysis

Our technology stack at NS1, and the many systems you'll have an opportunity to work with here:

* Our globally distributed platform is comprised of many subsystems including:
* Custom built DNS software that's deployed on physical hardware and an anycasted network that spans nearly 30 facilities globally
* REST API, and Portal
* Deployment automation, CI/CD, unit/integration testing
* Monitoring, metrics collection and alerting
* Traffic load balancing, filtering, and DDoS mitigation tools
* Messaging, persistent DB and caching systems
* Other technologies and integrations include:
* Linux, Ansible, Docker & other container platforms
* BGP, BPF/IPTables, SDN, packet analysis
* MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, SQL
* Python (Twisted), Bash, C, C++14, React, Redux, D3
* Hadoop/HDFS/OpenTSDB, Grafana, Bosun
* Integrations with third party SaaS, APIs, and libraries, various Open Source projects including REST API clients and integrations

Working @ NS1

We're a fast-growing, well-funded startup based in the heart of New York City's Financial District with offices and team members around the world. Working at NS1, you'll come to understand our team is unique, both in and out of the workplace. We have PhDs, musicians, artists, and athletes working side by side, dedicated to delivering first class products. We're hardworking, but we're also a compassionate group. We understand that outside of NS1 is a world that places demands on our time. Our leadership team is dedicated to open and honest communication and we continuously strive to foster a culture of transparency, flexibility, and creativity.

We offer:

* competitive compensation (salary and stock options)
* medical, dental, and vision
* commuter benefits
* 401k
* flexible hours and time off
* choice of workstation

NS1 is an equal opportunity employer.

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