Title: Linux Systems Engineer
Location: Seattle, WA
Openings: 5
Type: Long-term Contract
 
Summary:
 
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. The team you will be on is focused on data center consolidation, as well as supporting DC-centric core services such as DNS, configuration management, virtualization and containerization platforms, centralized storage, backups, ELK and Graphite, and data center facilities.
 
Responsibilities:

• Manage a Linux-based ecommerce environment with about 2500 servers
• Help migrate on-premise workloads to public cloud
• Collaborate with developers to architect and enhance production application deployments
• Monitor service performance and plan for future scaling

 
Requirements:

• 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
• PHP, Java, MySQL
• 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 production cloud deployments (GCP preferred, AWS)
• Experience configuring hardware load balancers (F5 preferred)