Remote Senior System Administrator

Summary

Join Zyte's globally distributed team as a Senior Systems Administrator to maintain, operate, and develop our proxy infrastructure, and get involved in team coordination tasks.

Requirements

• 3+ years recent experience working as a Linux administrator/engineer at reasonable scale (dozens of systems)
• 2+ years of recent professional experience designing, developing, and operating Configuration Management solutions such as Ansible (preferred) or similar
• Experience working with 3rd party providers
• Solid experience in Linux tuning, profiling, and monitoring
• Experience with Grafana, ELK, Prometheus, SQL, GIT
• Solid knowledge of networking & network troubleshooting including TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, firewalls, VLANs, DNS, LDAP
• Skills in at least one programming language: Python (preferred), Bash
• Proven experience in applying critical thinking to solve complex problems and improve system performance
• Previous work experience as a team coordinator or supervisor

Responsibilities

• Maintain, operate and develop our proxy infrastructure
• Maintain relationship with our IP providers and be main point of contact
• Write tools and scripts to provide automation and self service solutions
• Design new systems to support production services
• Creatively solve scalability challenges
• Help improve monitoring and identify key performance metrics
• Troubleshooting and resolution of server/network and application issues
• Apply critical thinking skills to facilitate constructive discussions that challenge assumptions and ensure thorough exploration of alternative solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience deploying and debugging applications running on containers as microservices
• Working knowledge of load-balancing technologies
• Highly organized, able to multitask, able to work individually, as well as within a team, and across teams
• Excellent written and spoken English skills
• Proven experience working remotely and collaborating in a cross-functional team environment
• Familiarity with software engineering practices, including n-tier architecture, configuration management, development methodologies (e.g. agile, waterfall, spiral, prototyping), etc

Benefits

• Become part of a self-motivated, progressive, multi-cultural team
• Have the freedom & flexibility to work remotely
• Get the chance to work with cutting-edge open source technologies and tools