Sr. Systems Engineer
Join SpotX as an Systems Engineer II. SpotX, an RTL Group company, is the leading video advertising platform unifying TV and digital video globally.
The Systems Engineer II is responsible for building, configuring, maintaining, and automating our 2000+ system, heterogenous global infrastructure. We work with a breadth of tech; Hadoop, Cassandra, Scylla, MySQL, Netapps, VMware, Puppet, Python, Salt, Ansible and MORE! We are a collaborative team, as a systems engineer II your technical design ideas would be encouraged. This role should be able to mentor junior engineers, both in industry technology and in SpotX tech.
Systems works closely with Engineering to develop SpotX applications, this role would be expected to bring a systems influence to make sure our procedures and best practices are included in design. This role needs to have quick troubleshooting techniques; our fires are unique and require creative thinking. Systems engineer II needs to be dedicated to following and developing change management strategies and procedures. This role requires an on-call rotation, 72 hr/month, with a secondary as backup.
How you'll make an immediate impact:
- Create and modify monitoring checks for all servers and applications
- Create and modify TIG graphs for monitoring and awareness
- Review peer code
- Respond to systems support tickets
- Research and recommend innovative, and where possible, automated approaches for system administration tasks
- Troubleshoot all systems and application issues and document results
- Educate new and current team members in Linux technologies, industry standards, and SpotX applications
- Other duties as assigned by management
What we're looking for:
- 4+ years of related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 4+ years of Linux experience
- Strong Experience in Python and Bash scripting
- Strong experience in Red Hat Linux troubleshooting and tuning
- Familiar with PostgreSQL, MySQL; experienced with Percona cluster
- Familiar with Cassandra and Hadoop, Druid clusters
- Familiar with network protocols NFS, DNS, SSH, LDAP etc
- Familiar with system and application monitoring. (nagios, checkMK, grafana, graylog)
- Strong understanding of basic networking, including Linux routing and firewalling
- VLANs, DHCP, etc
- Familiarity with distributed message queuing (kafka, activeMQ)
- Able to Multi-task and context switch within a process driven environment
When you join our team, we offer:
- A fast-paced, innovative company building best-in-class technology from 12 offices around the world
- A fun, casual, and collaborative culture with a commitment to work-life balance
- Unlimited PTO (work it out with your team first!), company closed from Christmas to New Years
- Comprehensive Benefits Package includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k matching program and education assistance
- Free breakfast Fridays, fully stocked snack wall, gym reimbursement, charitable donation matching program
SpotX Core Values:
- Customer Service, Integrity, Respect, Initiative, Collaboration, Innovation and Adaptability
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