Job role: Sr. Systems Engineer
Duration: 6 months
Location: Hybrid San Francisco CA
Job Description:
- Our Infrastructure team is made up of talented and enthusiastic individuals who have a huge amount of experience in the running managing and scaling of large-scale web operations and systems administration. The team works closely with the rest of our Engineering organization to ensure that the platform powering the client remains reliable performant and secure 24x7.
- As a Sr. Systems Engineer you will take an active role in designing and building the systems tools and services delivering the clients next generation cloud platform. You will be challenged with everything from infrastructure tooling automation build and deployment pipelines monitoring and logging architecture containerization and more. You must be responsive flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.
What You Will Do:
- Design build and evolve our production cloud systems infrastructure strategically employing automation and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Use depth of cloud experience to put together elegant designs that the team will enjoy supporting.
- You will partner with infrastructure engineering and security teams to develop deploy and maintain secure cloud systems aligned to internal standards and current best practices.
- Expertise in incident and problem management including timely problem identification successful resolution and root-cause analysis.
- Keep abreast of company growth and industry trends and iterate on automated deployment configuration and monitoring.
- You will tackle challenging problems to improve the platforms reliability resiliency and scalability.
- Create a culture of transparency information sharing and collaboration through the development of excellent documentation and mentoring of junior team members.
- Ensure service level objectives through proactive monitoring custom tooling and on-call support/troubleshooting.
What you have:
- 6 years of expert Linux and Windows System Administration experience (CentOS Amazon Linux Windows Server 2019).
- 3 years of experience working directly with AWS Infrastructure services; AWS Certification preferred; strong knowledge of AWS services and security required.
- Experience with automation frameworks/tools like Git Jenkins Terraform Packer is a MUST.
- Experience with application delivery platforms for load balancing caching compression application firewalling reverse proxy SSL termination etc.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes is a PLUS.
- Fluency with one or more current generation scripting language used by DevOps professionals (Python PHP Ruby).
- Monitoring and logging experience in any of the following: Prometheus Splunk Syslog OSSEC/Wazzuh CloudWatch.
- You have experience supporting high traffic and public facing websites applications and services that span multiple data-centers and cloud environments.
- You possess exceptional communication skills - written and verbal - and can communicate cross functionally with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Computer Science background and fundamentals.