Devops/Operations/System Engineer

PRIMARY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Participating as a member of the Site Operations team responsible for management and operation of various platforms in Amsterdam.
* Building and scaling sites which provide at least 99.95% uptime.
* Ensuring 2nd and 3rd line support for production environments, including on-call.
* Supporting delivery of changes and deployments to production, QA and development environments.
* Building, maintaining, securing and upgrading our Linux systems (web Servers, application Servers, and databases).
* Assessing system utilization to assist in troubleshooting, performance tuning, and capacity management.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

- 5+ years of hands-on experience in high-volume databases, systems (Linux/Solaris) and networking technologies.
- Fluent with monitoring systems such as Nagios/Graphite/GDash/Grafana, etc.
- Excellent Linux administration (Debian/Ubuntu) and database administration skills.
- Install, configure, and performance tune applications written in Java/Scala/Go.
- Strong hands on experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
- Experience with source control tools like git.
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals such as subnetting, VLANs, DNS, HTTP, TCP/IP.
- Knowledge of Python

BONUSES:

- Strong puppet experience.
- You have experience with Elasticsearch, Kibana, Hadoop, or other Big Data tools.
- You've used vagrant, docker, or other similar tools.

TEKsystems is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.