DreamHost is hiring a
Senior Systems Engineer

Summary

Join DreamHost as a Senior Systems Engineer to work on system and platform monitoring, performance tuning, and infrastructure automation. This role involves building, scaling, and monitoring large-scale Linux environments with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Ansible.

Requirements

• Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent architecture and technical support documentation skills
• Strong interpersonal and consultative skills
• Ability to conduct research into emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products as required
• Able to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Ability to effectively present and communicate information to both technical and non-technical individuals and groups
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables
• Experience with automation tools, ideally Ansible
• Senior level systems operations experience in a large-scale Linux environment
• Proven experience in overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software systems, applications, and related products
• Proven experience with systems planning, security principles, and general software management best practices
• Working technical knowledge of current software protocols, and Internet standards, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP
• Excellent software troubleshooting experience
• Working technical knowledge with Python and Bash
• Experience building and consuming APIs
• Competence with testing, flowchart, and data mapping tools and procedures

Responsibilities

• Monitor and test system performance across an extremely large Ubuntu Linux infrastructure in an automated manner; prepare and deliver performance results and recommendations
• Maintain and improve the internal and customer facing platforms that power DreamHost in a scalable and automated fashion
• Work with and improve existing tooling, automation, and processes to improve efficiency, performance, and to reduce technical debt
• Choose and deploy new internal tools, applications, and operating systems in an automated and easily maintainable fashion
• Create and maintain internal documentation related to DreamHost’s infrastructure
• Gauge the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems; develop and implement strategies for improving, further leveraging, or replacing these systems
• Assist in the planning and execution of operating system and software upgrades
• Provide general assistance for Tech Support, Operations, Data Center Operations
• Conduct research on emerging technologies in support of platform improvement efforts, and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness, systems flexibility, maintainability, and performance
• Provide technical and process guidance to other members of the team
• Ensure compatibility and interoperability of deployed systems
• Conduct research on software and systems products to justify recommendations and to support purchasing efforts