Systems Engineer

Hybrid Opportunity in NYCThis Jobot Job is hosted by: Mary LeeAre you a fit? Easy Apply now by clicking the "Apply Now" button and sending us your resume.Salary: $130,000 - $170,000 per year

A bit about us:We improve the search experience for consumers, publishers, and advertisers without sacrificing user privacy. We are the largest people-led, privacy-safe consumer search marketplace looking to bring on a Systems Engineer. If you have experience working with CentOS, Cloud, Virtualization, and Containerization technologies then apply today! You will partake in the build out of new products, and up-leveling existing systems.

Why join us?

• Competitive Compensation Package
• 401K Matching
• Paid Time Off
• Strong Work/Life Balance
• Wellness Programs
• Comprehensive Healthcare Plan

Job DetailsWhat You'll Do

• Provision cloud resources in AWS with IaC.
• Provision and maintain physical and virtual servers, managed by Puppet.
• Full lifecycle support (provision, maintain, update, decommission) for systems and applications.
• Plan, execute, and validate migrations for legacy applications to containers or newer OS versions.
• Assist in optimizing AWS storage and instance sizing, and report on AWS costs.
• Implement and test backup and recovery procedures for various systems to meet target MTTR goals.
• Respond to alerts and troubleshoot issues related to systems, storage, performance, and network.
• Maintain servers including patching, and hardware replacement or upgrades.
• Participate in Infrastructure project initiatives such as capacity planning, security and compliance audit and remediation, and R&D.
• Create and improve system documentation

Qualifications and skills

• 4+ years of hands-on-experience in System Engineering using CentOS or other RHEL based distribution.
• 2+ years of experience with Virtualization Technologies such as KVM, Xen, or VMWare.
• Must have a strong understanding of permissions including user and group ownership, permissions and masks, and limits. Understanding of SELinux ACLs is nice to have but not required.
• Strong analytical skills, and ability to trace the impact of change.
• Strong understanding of system performance tuning including disk, and kernel optimizations.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, DNS, and TCP.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Is a plus:o Comfortable with Git - branching, merging, and pull/merge requests;o Puppet and Heirao Terraformo Kuberneteso Network experience - Etherchannel, BGP, OSPF.o Queuing systems such as Kafka, and RabbitMQo Experience building and operating 24/7 low latency large-scale distributed mission-critical systems both on-prem and cloud.o Familiarity with twelve-factor, and well-architected principlesInterested in hearing more? Easy Apply now by clicking the "Apply Now" button.