Description

Envysion, a leading provider of video-based SaaS technology solutions for retailers, fast casual restaurants and wireless dealers, is looking for a talented Systems Engineer to help us advance our suite of SaaS products. This is a great opportunity for someone to use his or her expertise in systems, networks and operations as a member of a dynamic team that designs, develops, tests and maintains the infrastructure for our products. This position will focus on improving availability and performance within our products. 
 

Core Functions

Operations:

• Develop and advocate for operational best practices, standards and processes across all environments.
• Work in a team environment to identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement in the deployment and build processes.
• Implement, maintain and improve shared infrastructure (log collection, configuration management, metric collection platform).
• Continuously identify opportunities to automate tasks and maintain operational tools.
• Work with development teams to ensure monitoring & alert configurations to detect, triage and resolve issues quickly.
• Work with development teams to ensure best practices for disaster recovery and backups are implemented.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues escalated by internal customers, external partners and critical systems, including implementing and deploying emergency hot fixes.
• This position will require support outside of standard business hours to complete system upgrades and application deployments, as well as provide support for emergencies and outages.

Database Management:

• Provide database troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Develop tools, scripts and queries to automate the validation of data.
• Improve database designs for performance, scalability and disaster recovery across multiple data centers and platforms.
• Actively monitor the performance and stability of all of the production databases infrastructure, using your analytical skills to anticipate future problems and resolve them effectively.
• Develop best practices for automating database deployments to product development environments.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a systems administration role including experience with UNIX/LINUX administration.
• Familiarity with build and release automation, dependency management.
• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS preferred, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, Google Compute or App Engine, Hadoop, etc.).
• Experience with infrastructure automation and container frameworks (Docker, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Perl, Python, Ruby or other scripting language experience.
• SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Solid understanding of network routing and subnetting.
• Experience with datacenter networking.
• In-depth experience operating a 24x7 production environment.
• Ability to quickly triage problems under pressure, determine root cause and drive resolution.
• Desire to learn and continually improve self and others through knowledge sharing.
• Experience working in Agile teams and project teams.
• Experience with Jenkins.

Envysion is an equal opportunity employer.