Systems Engineer II

The successful engineer in this role will: 

• Understand how commodity servers, operating systems and networks function, perform and scale. 
• Possess superb troubleshooting, project management and problem analysis skills. 
• Drive technical innovation and efficiency in infrastructure operations via automation. 
• Design server monitoring and management solutions using automation and self-repair. 
• Create processes that enhance operational workflow and provide positive customer impact. 
• Dive deep to resolve problems at their root, looking for failure patterns amenable to long-term solutions via simplification and automation. 
• Avoid re-inventing the wheel and prefer appropriately simple, repeatable solutions over more complex and failure prone ones. 
• Recognize and adopt best practices in documentation, testing, security, operational support at scale, and efficient use of resources. 
• Develop appropriate metrics to demonstrate performance at improving operational efficiency.

Requirements

• In depth knowledge of & experience deploying and operating Linux or other UNIX variants in a datacenter environment. 
• Relentless passion for frugality and out-of-the-box engineering. 
• Strong system troubleshooting skills. 
• Proficiency and experience in automation via Perl/Python programming and shell scripting. 
• Good understanding of standard internet protocols (Ethernet, ARP, IP, ICMP, UDP, TCP, SSL, DNS, HTTP, etc.) 
• Demonstrable grasp of security best practices in server configuration, tool development, and access controls. 
• Experience in building SQL queries.

Highly Desirable Attributes: 

• Knowledge of C, C++ or Java. 
• Knowledge of VCS (git, mercurial, svn). 
• Understanding of AWS technologies . 
• Experience deploying or managing servers in large-scale, geographically diverse environments. 
• Understanding & experience of managing and monitoring large scale disk sub-systems. 
• Operational knowledge of common enterprise switching and routing platforms