At Pythian we are experts in strategic database and analytics services driving digital transformation and operational excellence. Pythian a multinational company was founded in 1997 and started by ensuring the reliability and performance of missioncritical databases. We quickly earned a reputation for solving tough data challenges. We were there when the industry moved from onpremises to cloud environments and as enterprises sought more from their data we expanded our competencies to include advanced analytics.
Today we empower organizations to embrace transformation and leverage advanced technologies including AI to stay competitive. We deliver innovative solutions that meet each clients data goals and have built strong partnerships with Google Cloud AWS Microsoft Oracle SAP and Snowflake. The powerful combination of our extensive expertise in data and cloud and our ability to keep on top of the latest bleeding edge technologies make us the perfect partner to help mid and largesized businesses transform to stay ahead in todays rapidly changing digital economy.
Why you
Do you thrive on solving tough problemseven under pressure Are you motivated by fastpaced environments with continuous learning opportunities Do you enjoy collaborating with a team of peers who push you to constantly up your game At Pythian we are building a nextgeneration Site Reliability Engineering team. We need motivated and talented individuals on our teams and we want you! Youll act as a technology leader advisor for our clients and mentor for other team members. Projects would include infrastructure architecture automation and intelligent monitoring systems from design through implementation. If you Love Your Data and want to Love Your Career this could be the job for you!
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What will you be doing
Operate maintain and administer solutions contributing to customer infrastructures operational efficiency availability and visibility.
Planning maintenance activity design documentation and standard procedures
Provide Root Cause Analysis reports for outages/incidents (ITIL Problem Management)
Observe and provide feedback on the current state of the clients infrastructure and identify opportunities to improve resiliency reduce incident occurrence and automate repetitive administrative and operational tasks.
Contribute to improve and maintain team documentation about client systems and infrastructure procedures policies and schedules.
Gather and document information about client environments through audit activities and analyze the information to identify opportunities for improvement and application of best practices.
Work collaboratively with teammates to contribute to the continuous improvement of our working culture.
Act as a technology leader for clients as well as drive client discussions on technology road maps.
Participate in an oncall rotation in an escalation capacity.
What do we need from you
Experience working with Google and AWS Clouds (including infrastructure as code deployment with Cloud Formation Terraform Opsworks etc)
Scripting and automation of administrative tasks using Python is a must
Solid understanding of microservices architecture and container technologies (Kubernetes is a must Docker lxc etc)
Clear understanding of software development lifecycles and best practices from an infrastructure point of view (PRs merge rebase etc)
Understanding the endtoend operations of a Business System vs components.
Comprehensive systems hardware and network troubleshooting experience
Common Linux distribution platform installation configuration performance tuning and cloud migration.
TCP/IP networking NIC bonding and network services configuration (DNS NTP DHCP SMTP etc)
Operation and administration of virtual infrastructure including experience with at least one hypervisor (VMware HyperV KVM etc.
Ability to describe IaaS PaaS SaaS pros and cons of each use cases for virtualization and cloud
Administration of web servers and supporting technologies including network load balancers
Experience with the design development and deployment of Puppet
System and application error investigation troubleshooting of access/availability issues including deep multisystem root cause analysis
Experience managing networking devices such as switches and firewalls from a variety of vendors
Solid understanding of DevOps tools processes and culture
Ability to pick up new technologies quickly
Ability to provide accurate work scheduling and task estimations for work delivery
Love your work/life balance: Flexibly work remotely from your home theres no daily travel requirement to an office! All you need is a stable internet connection.
Love your coworkers: Collaborate with some of the best and brightest in the industry!
Love your development: Hone your skills or learn new ones with our substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days attend training become certified whatever you like!
Love your workspace: We give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS and an annual budget to personalize your work environment!
Love yourself: Pythian cares about the health and wellbeing of our team. You will have an annual wellness budget to make yourself a priority (use it on gym memberships massages fitness and more). Additionally you will receive a generous amount of paid vacation and sick days as well as a day off to volunteer for your favorite charity.
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