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Empyrean

Linux System Administrator

Job Description

We are seeking a Linux System Administrator who is passionate about infrastructure design to join our team. We leverage Amazon AWS and co-located data centers.  Our cloud infrastructure uses heavy automation for server deployment and provisioning. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys experimenting and thoughtfully architecting systems!

Responsibilities

  • Provisioning of servers and environments
  • Perform software releases and patches
  • Maintain and improve configuration management templates
  • Monitor system performance and respond to alerts for a highly available infrastructure
  • Take part in on-call rotation
  • Support a team of developers and QA engineers
  • Ensure compliance with security standards and practices
  • Manage user access
  • Keep current on relevant technologies
  • Secure the operations and data of applications against theft, loss and/or disasters
  • Partner with internal and external as needed to complete projects
  • Help design infrastructure and automation improvements

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Job Requirements

  • Linux administration experience
  • Experience with at least one scripting language (Python, Ruby, Bash, etc)
  • Knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, ICMP and other network protocols
  • Experience with a web server (Apache, Tomcat, or Nginx)
  • Experience with Amazon AWS (EC2, EBS, S3, IAM, Route53, ELB, RDS, VPC/SecurityGroups, etc.)
  • Experience with Linux Virtualization (KVM, XEN, VMWare)
  • MySQL database administration experience
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • Proven ability to establish and maintain effective, respectful and trusting relationships with clients (internal and external), consumers and colleagues representing varying needs, personalities and styles
  • Tenacity to deal with ambiguity and to effectively solve problems in highly dynamic environment
  • Capable of assertively voicing opinions and ideas in the spirit of challenging and improving the organization and being open and supportive of others’ thoughts and feedback
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently with little direction and seek out new challenges
  • Interest in continuous learning to develop oneself

Pluses:

  • Configuration management experience (Salt, Puppet, Chef, or Ansible)
  • Application performance monitoring tools (NewRelic, Stackdriver, Graphite, Scout)
  • Experience with load balancing technology (HAProxy, ELB, etc)
  • Experience with message broker software (RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, AWS SNS)
  • Experience with Redis, Memcached, Elasticsearch
  • Experience with source code control processes (git/github)
  • Continuous integration experience (Jenkins, Artifactory, Gradle)
Job ID: one04fwp
Employment Type: Other

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