Systems Engineer

The JDC Group is looking for a systems engineer to join a fast paced dynamic environment to build a next generation data platform. The systems engineer will be responsible for designing and developing solutions for infrastructure setup, configuration, automation and caching, primarily on the cloud. This requires an excellent understanding of sound application/infrastructure design, networking, application deployment and management, server provisioning and maintenance, and platform automation.

The systems engineer will work closely with data systems engineers/architects, performance/platform engineers and application developers/architects. The systems engineer will be responsible for the full deployment, infrastructure automation, and designing and developing tools and applications for code building, deployment and release management.

REQUIREMENTS:

Strong Linux experience (RedHat 6.x/CentOS 5.x & 6.x).

Experience with configuration and management of CDNs (Akamai or level3).

Solid understanding of Amazon web services (or other cloud providers) and prior experience in designing and building infrastructure components in Amazon (or other cloud providers).

Good working knowledge with Scripting languages such as, Perl, Python or PHP.

Experience with Puppet, and/or MCollective and/or Factor.

Experience with API management gateways and portals.

Experience with Memcached or varnish or Squid.

Experience with building and deploying applications and release management.

Apache and Tomcat experience.

Experience with Jenkins.

Experience with messaging technologies (RabbitMQ).

Experience with NoSQL (Redis, Riak, MongoDB, Hadoop) would be a plus.

Knowledge of creating RPMs for open source.

KNOWLEDGE

BS in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent.

5-10 years experience with infrastructure management, linux administration, and networking services.

2+ years experience in working in AWS or in other cloud providers.

2+ years experience in high volume public-facing web site/API management environments.

Experience in managing applications running hot-hot across multiple locations.

Experience in using puppet/chef to automate instance creation and configuration.

Good understanding of non-relational data stores such as MongoDB, Riak, Redis and MemCached.

Experience with Jenkins (and/or other similar tools).