Zyte is hiring a
System Administrator

Summary

Zyte is seeking a Systems Administrator to manage and scale the infrastructure that powers data crawls. The role requires 4+ years of experience as a Systems Administrator engineer, proficiency in at least one programming language (Python and Bash/Shell scripting), running microservice applications on containers, strong communication skills, flexibility around working hours, and maintaining confidentiality.

Requirements

• 4+ years experience working as a Systems Administrator engineer at reasonable scale (hundreds of systems) and designing/deploying ‘highly available’ solutions
• Experience and demonstrated knowledge with: Apache Mesos/Marathon, HAProxy, Nginx, Percona XtraDB/MySQL clusters, Salstack
• Proficiency in at least one of these programming languages: Python and Bash/Shell scripting. Bonus points for Golang/Java experience
• Experience running microservice applications on containers
• Highly organized, able to multitask, able to work individually, as well as within a team, and across teams
• Strong oral and written communication skills in English
• Flexibility around working hours - if there is an issue you should use your initiative and help resolve it
• Maintaining and respecting confidentiality of large amounts of information you have access to
• Quick and avid learner of previously unknown technologies/stacks

Responsibilities

• Improve and maintain our Platform infrastructure to meet the expectations from other technical teams and their associated stakeholders
• Plan, build and execute legacy infrastructure migrations
• Provide recommendations and solutions for existing Platform infrastructure to improve reliability, security and performance
• Proactively ensure our Platform runs with minimal interruptions
• Creatively solve scalability challenges in a rapidly expanding cloud & on-prem environment
• Help improve monitoring and identify key performance metrics
• Proactive research and development, discovering and implementing new tools, emerging technology, etc
• Own assigned trouble cases, manage and keep up with all cases assigned, and follow up and resolve cases in accordance with SLAs
• Troubleshooting and resolution of server/network and application issues

Benefits

35 days paid holidays