System Engineer

OUR HIGH-VISIBILITY CLIENT\'S INFRASTRUCTURE TEAM IS SEEKING AN ENTHUSIASTIC AND TALENTED SYSTEM ENGINEER TO HELP ARCHITECT, DESIGN AND BUILD TOOLS THAT WILL HELP TO MANAGE THE BUILDING AND OPERATION OF THE DATA CENTERS THAT MAKE UP THE CLIENT\'S CLOUD.

The ideal candidate will be clearly passionate about the large opportunity that this client's Web Services represents. You will be working in a hyper-growth environment with dynamic priorities.

YOU WILL EXHIBIT THE FOLLOWING TRAITS:

- You recognize and adopt best practices in systems administration: automation, tool creation, testing, security, scale operational support, self-repair, documentation, efficient use of resources.
- You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
- You develop pragmatic solutions. You build flexible systems without over-engineering and choose simple, straightforward solutions over more complex ones.
- You understand how operating systems and hosts work, perform and scale.
- You have superb troubleshooting and problem analysis skills
- You continually align your work with business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
- You continue to move forward in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge. You do not suffer from "analysis paralysis."
- You build good working relationships within the team and with others across the org.
- You proactively support knowledge-sharing within the team and across your division.
- You will be comfortable acting as an interface for customer enhancement requests and defect reporting.

REQUIREMENTS

- 5+ years of solid.NIX system administration experience
- Experience with Object-Oriented design and concepts
- 3+ years of Scripting experience in a Linux environment (in Perl, Ruby, bash, etc.)
- 3+ years building and running systems for Internet-facing services
- BS in computer science or other technical degree and/or related experience

PREFERRED

- Development of systems management and administration automation in a high level Scripting language (Perl, Python, Ruby) or Java
- Experience with SQL scripts and database administration preferred
- Excellent communication and analytical skills
- Automation or monitoring framework experience, deployment or development
- Experience with performance testing and tuning