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system engineer
Sunnyvale, CA, United StatesPosted 135 months ago
ContracthybridMid-Senior Level
Job Description
Duration: 05 months
Only for those who can work on independently on w2 (on our payroll)
The ideal candidate enjoys a fun and very busy work environment, will jump in to debug and fix things, and multitasks and context-switches as well. Candidate has strong understanding of best practices across a variety of disciplines including: Web Operation, System Administration, Software Development, Release Engineering, Performance Engineering, Network Operations, Web Security Management. Your Day - Build and administer production systems and associated infrastructure and tools. - Triage and troubleshoot complex technical or business-case problems, will eventually participate in on-call pager rotation. - Maintain and improve the availability, performance, scalability and efficiency of the services by implementing monitoring, automation, redundancy, capacity and business-continuity planning. - Gain deep application-level knowledge of the systems and influence their design, architecture, standards and methods for the operability of systems. - Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand the product and technical roadmap and manage impact to the operability of systems. - Work closely with Quality and Release Engineering teams to facilitate release pipelines and enable the continuous deployment. You Must Have - BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent. - Minimum 3+ years of industry experience. - Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking, DNS, HTTP, UNIX systems (RHEL is preferred) and LAMP stacks. Familiarity with load-balancing and high availability mechanisms is a plus. - Strong analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, and written & oral communication skills. - Expertise with supporting 24x7, highly-available, service-oriented, distributed production systems. - Strong coding and scripting skills (Python, Ruby, Perl, regular expression, etc). - Experience with code repositories (Git), build automation / continuous integration tools (Hudson, Jenkins, etc) and configuration management automation tools (Chef, Puppet, CFEngine, etc)
Only for those who can work on independently on w2 (on our payroll)
The ideal candidate enjoys a fun and very busy work environment, will jump in to debug and fix things, and multitasks and context-switches as well. Candidate has strong understanding of best practices across a variety of disciplines including: Web Operation, System Administration, Software Development, Release Engineering, Performance Engineering, Network Operations, Web Security Management. Your Day - Build and administer production systems and associated infrastructure and tools. - Triage and troubleshoot complex technical or business-case problems, will eventually participate in on-call pager rotation. - Maintain and improve the availability, performance, scalability and efficiency of the services by implementing monitoring, automation, redundancy, capacity and business-continuity planning. - Gain deep application-level knowledge of the systems and influence their design, architecture, standards and methods for the operability of systems. - Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand the product and technical roadmap and manage impact to the operability of systems. - Work closely with Quality and Release Engineering teams to facilitate release pipelines and enable the continuous deployment. You Must Have - BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent. - Minimum 3+ years of industry experience. - Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking, DNS, HTTP, UNIX systems (RHEL is preferred) and LAMP stacks. Familiarity with load-balancing and high availability mechanisms is a plus. - Strong analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, and written & oral communication skills. - Expertise with supporting 24x7, highly-available, service-oriented, distributed production systems. - Strong coding and scripting skills (Python, Ruby, Perl, regular expression, etc). - Experience with code repositories (Git), build automation / continuous integration tools (Hudson, Jenkins, etc) and configuration management automation tools (Chef, Puppet, CFEngine, etc)
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