system engineer

About the role

Duration: 05 months

Only for those who can work on independently on w2 (on our payroll)

The ideal candidate enjoys a fun and very busy work environment, will jump in to debug and fix things, and multitasks and context-switches as well. Candidate has strong understanding of best practices across a variety of disciplines including: Web Operation, System Administration, Software Development, Release Engineering, Performance Engineering, Network Operations, Web Security Management. Your Day

• Build and administer production systems and associated infrastructure and tools.
• Triage and troubleshoot complex technical or business-case problems, will eventually participate in on-call pager rotation.
• Maintain and improve the availability, performance, scalability and efficiency of the services by implementing monitoring, automation, redundancy, capacity and business-continuity planning.
• Gain deep application-level knowledge of the systems and influence their design, architecture, standards and methods for the operability of systems.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand the product and technical roadmap and manage impact to the operability of systems.
• Work closely with Quality and Release Engineering teams to facilitate release pipelines and enable the continuous deployment. You Must Have
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Minimum 3+ years of industry experience.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking, DNS, HTTP, UNIX systems (RHEL is preferred) and LAMP stacks. Familiarity with load-balancing and high availability mechanisms is a plus.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, and written & oral communication skills.
• Expertise with supporting 24x7, highly-available, service-oriented, distributed production systems.
• Strong coding and scripting skills (Python, Ruby, Perl, regular expression, etc).
• Experience with code repositories (Git), build automation / continuous integration tools (Hudson, Jenkins, etc) and configuration management automation tools (Chef, Puppet, CFEngine, etc)

Qualifications & Requirements

linux administration