Position Summary:

You have a passion for keeping distributed systems running 24/7 in a reliable, performant, efficient, and secure manner. You are excited by the challenge of processing 100s of millions of posts from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and other social networks daily. You are extremely detail-oriented and take pride in being thorough. You are highly organized and sometimes get unsettled when things are out of place.

Responsibilities:

• Manage software builds and deployments across multiple environments
• Maintain a variety of software infrastructure components including application and database servers
• Maintain a variety of hardware infrastructure components including Linux servers and networking gear
• Implement and maintain production system monitors
• Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis
• Work with engineering and product teams to spec out infrastructure requirements
• Participate in an on-call rotation for production system support
• Manage security and access to production and testing environments

Requirements:

• Excellent communication and organization skills
• 5+ years of experience with Linux and/or UNIX system administration
• Ability to perform automation tasks using a scripting environment such as Bash
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP networks
• Strong understanding of storage system maintenance and optimization
• Experience managing AWS infrastructure including EC2, CloudFront, CloudWatch, SQS, AMI configuration
• Experience managing distributed datastores like Memcached and Redis
• Experience with source code control systems such as Git and Subversion
• Experience with system-monitoring services such as Nagios and Graphite
• Familiarity with Java and other programming languages

Nice to Have:

• Experience with one or more of the following technologies: elasticsearch, Solr, Hadoop, HBase, Hive, MapReduce, Kafka, PostgreSQL, NoSQL DBs, Cassandra, RabbitMQ, docker