Monday, February 2, 2015

[KITlist-Tech] Senior Operations Engineer (Palo Alto, CA)

 

Please direct your responses to: kathy@slice.com

 


The Operations team at Slice is looking for a Senior Operations Engineer to scale and automate the core production stack on the Amazon AWS cloud. As a Senior Operations Engineer, you will help to shape how our infrastructure is built out to handle our ever growing user base. You will work with the lead developers on designing and building out new services and planning for their launch.

The ideal candidate should have experience with large cloud computing environments running on Amazon AWS. You should be comfortable with the various service offerings from AWS as well as running/managing those services - both from the AWS console as well as from the CLI.

A strong background in Linux system administration is required to perform the duties expected. The candidate needs to possess strong scripting abilities in order to automate management of the cloud environment. This candidate should be motivated and be able to work independently. You should be able to take a set of requirements and implement these.

If the idea of joining a tight team of success driven engineers and being able to design and shape the development of new features that will be used by millions of users excites you, then you will want to apply for this position.

Responsibilities:

Create tools for automation and deployment of cloud infrastructure and resources

Configure, deploy, and manage multi-platform systems (CentOS/RedHat/Debian/Ubuntu/Windows)

Monitor site stability, capacity and performance

Scale infrastructure to meet demand

Automate and improve existing processes

Troubleshoot system and infrastructure issues

Ensure system and network security

Document system design, configurations and procedures

Work closely with developers in supporting new features and services

Participate in the oncall rotation for monitoring of the production infrastructure

Requirements:

Fluency in Linux OS

BS or MS in CS, EE, or related field

Experience with AWS (EC2, CLI, SNS, SES, SQS, IAM, VPC, CloudFront, S3, CloudWatch, OpsWorks, and CloudFormation)

Experience with RightScale preferred

Experience with monitoring/graphing tools (Nagios, Munin, Graphite)

Experience with managing production environment including coordinating changes and software updates

Experience with source version control (Subversion, GIT)

Strong scripting skills (Perl, Bash, Python, Ruby)

Solid understanding of fundamental internet and network technologies (TCP/IP, HTTP(S), DNS, firewalls, load balancing, VPN, routing, LDAP, etc…)

Strong ability to debug complex problems using standard tools available (tcpdump, strace, vmstat, iostat)

Knowledge of MySQL DB administration; knowledge of SQL language

Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills

Enthusiasm for working hard and having fun

Ability to work independently

To apply, please send your resume to kathy@slice.com.

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