Infrastructure Support Engineer

As a Support Engineer working on our high-visibility client's Infrastructure Automation team, your mission is to provide secure, available, scalable and operationally excellent infrastructure services.

You will build, monitor and manage critical infrastructure services on fleet of Linux Servers, for use by the client's very extensive retail website, device management and web services. For example, you will build and manage external DNS services that front all client services. You will design and develop solutions for monitoring and alarming the essential services. You will identify and deliver automation improvements in maintaining large fleet of Servers and write scripts to implement innovative solutions. You will watch for external threats to the critical services and take preventive actions toward managing availability and scalability.

You will be working on highly visible projects that directly impact the availability and performance of services across the entire business. Your work will be fun and challenging every day and you will be working with about every other engineering and operations team in the organization. You will be looked upon as expert on Linux server administration by internal customers.

The most successful candidates for this role will have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, strong coding skills, systems architecture and design, great communication skills and a desire to tackle the complex problems of scale. We are particularly interested in system administrators and UNIX programmers familiar with aspects of running web services at scale. Deep networking knowledge and UNIX internals are also highly desirable.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Minimum 5 years of Linux/Unix System Administration experience
- Experience programming in a Scripting language (Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.)
- Experience in writing automation scripts and self-service tools
- Experience working in mission-critical, operations support environment
- Strong experience in network diagnostic tools
- Experience in TCP/IP and routing protocols
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work in fast-paced environment
- Experience with network booting and associated protocol such as DHCP, TFTP a plus

This contract position is expected to be 3 months in duration. Please attach your Resume in a WORD document format.