Staff System Administrator

Working closely with the Global ServiceNow Team they will help deliver seamless operational support to German customers. Experienced systems engineer with 6 years in Linux environments. Skilled in performance tuning cloud infrastructure scripting (Bash Python etc.) and high availability. Strong problem-solving communication and leadership responsibilities include network and system administration database management and DevOps operationsensuring a stable secure and scalable infrastructure aligned with evolving business needs.

Role responsibilities:

• Develop tools in Python bash and/or JavaScript to replace manual work and improve customer maintenance experience.
• Drive enhancements and bugfixes for large scale automation projects such as patching provisioning and kickstart domains.
• Design and implement procedure to accomplish maintenances where automation and tooling cannot; drive resolution of root causes with internal team members.
• Prepare new ServiceNow products and services for production readiness with design review feedback to engineering teams training and testing.
• Use broad knowledge and experience of systems administration and networking principles to proactively prevent and address incidents while constantly improving documentation.
• Participate in escalations and Root Cause Analysis of issues in both US Federal and global Commercial infrastructures.
• Troubleshoot database backup and restore failures as well as perform database migrations.
• Support operation of a wide variety of infrastructure services including Machine Learning and Prediction Cloudera Big Data clusters Kafka and RabbitMQ messaging database encryption E-Mail infrastructure at scale DNS Puppet Elasticsearch F5 BigIP and mo

Qualifications :

Strong background in systems architecture and engineering an understanding of the components of software infrastructure including hardware platforms OS virtualization application database web and application servers. Prior experience in software development/engineering release management/develops and managing large-scale server infrastructure is highly desirable. Strong Linux expertise is a must. 

Other requirements:

• 6 years experience building and maintaining Linux-based systems
• Substantial experience working on systems which deal with one (or more) Relational Database technologies: MariaDB  Oracle or PostgreSQL.
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
• Investigate and discover on your own being self-driven and accountable.
• Strong experience with database/system performance analysis capacity sizing and optimization
• An in-depth understanding of the technology associated with operating a service or platform in the public or private cloud including data centers systems networks web applications and relational databases.
• Familiarity with networking and storage concepts such as routing IP networking DNS load-balancers block and file storage etc.
• Is comfortable designing authoring testing and debugging code in a popular systems languages: Bash  Python Ruby Perl.
• Solid understanding of database replication/high availability storage engines system performance and benchmarking performance analysis and capacity management
• Familiarity with virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies.
• Candidate must have excellent communication skills and work well in a collaborative team environment.
• Ability to work on-calls if required .
• Ability to travel to our customer site

Due to the nature of the role and regulatory requirements for this role only candidates who are EU citizens can be considered.

Additional Information :

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time