Remote Linux Systems Engineer

Summary

Join a SaaS software company as a Systems Engineer to develop innovative enterprise resilience solutions, providing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery solutions, administering and deploying tools, and collaborating with teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Systems or related field
• 3+ years’ experience in a DevOps role
• Ability to safely and successfully perform essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards
• Good Linux administration and troubleshooting skills
• Knowledge of the AWS stack including security best practices. Knowledge of Azure stack a bonus
• Knowledge of distributed systems and redundancy, high-availability, and performance optimizations
• Scripting experience in BASH along with either Python or Ruby
• Experience with provisioning tools, preferably Terraform
• Experience with one or more configuration management tools, preferably Ansible
• Experience with VCS tools such as Git or TFS
• Experience with systems monitoring and application monitoring solutions such as Datadog and New Relic
• Understanding of what “Platform as Code” and “Configuration as Code” means and how to apply it
• Understanding of ITIL framework and all related procedures such us incident management, change management, RCA

Responsibilities

• Actively work on assigned cloud-based platform or new functionality projects including architecture design preparation, implementation, and documentation tasks
• Maintain and develop “Platform As Code” code base (created with Terraform) as well as Ansible configuration setup scripts
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, lab, and production environments
• Timely and effectively solve incidents and work on RCA cases
• Help to deploy and support applications that are running on AWS EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Fargate, Aurora DB, and other AWS services
• Work on EC2 instance patching maintenance tasks
• Building cloud platform components and new application integration with our monitoring system
• Collaborate with other Linux team members (international team) to keep following approved standards
• Collaborate with Development teams to solve complex issues, design new solutions or to help with new code deployment actions to Production environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Windows systems administration skills
• Experience working with Software Engineering teams and understanding Agile methodologies
• Experience building automated release pipelines using CI/CD tools like Jenkins
• Experience with application containerization , ECS, AWS Fargate