Title: Linux Systems Engineer
Location: Seattle, WA
Openings: 3
Type: Long-term Contract

We're looking for an experienced Linux System Engineer who enjoys solving problems and building new things using a combination of creativity and technical rigor. You don't have to know everything (that's why you're on a team), but we do expect good judgement and a desire to learn. If you can help us out, get in touch!
 
Responsibilities:

• Work on a project-focused team of other SEs
• Help manage a Linux-based ecommerce environment with about 3000 servers
• Collaborate with developers to architect and enhance production application deployments
• Monitor system performance and plan for future scaling

 
Skills and abilities you should bring to the table:

• 5-10 years or more of UNIX/Linux system administration experience
• Experience supporting highly available, customer-facing services in a 100+ server environment
• Operational automation skills using shell, Perl, or Python
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking fundamentals
• Experience with open source server software such as Apache, Memcache or Kafka
• Customer-focused mindset
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to balance competing priorities

 
Nice-to-have experience:

• Operational familiarity with configuration management systems such as CFEngine and Salt
• Experience with server virtualization (Xen preferred)
• Experience configuring hardware load balancers (F5 preferred)