Senior Systems Engineer

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Senior Systems Engineer maintaining Linux production infrastructure for a leading music streaming company. Automating, monitoring, troubleshooting, and supporting high-availability systems.

Responsibilities:

  • Maintain the uptime, performance, and capacity of production servers and services
  • Perform ticket and alert triage, monitoring and alerting, system maintenance, troubleshooting, and performance analysis
  • Manage system configuration and infrastructure, including Linux administration, configuration management, server hardware, virtualization platforms, storage architectures, DNS, LDAP, Kerberos, centralized logging, and containerized systems
  • Perform patching, migrations, upgrades, and change management activities
  • Support version control and infrastructure tools, including Git, BitBucket, Ansible, Elasticsearch/ELK, and the HashiCorp suite
  • Develop and maintain system automation, scripting, and CI/CD build pipelines using Python or BASH
  • Participate in infrastructure monitoring, metrics gathering, and capacity planning across production environments
  • Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation
  • Manage multiple priorities independently and collaboratively
  • Provide internal client and customer service
  • Document technical information
  • Communicate with staff at all levels and follow through on projects

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of experience with UNIX/Linux administration
  • Expertise in Linux system administration, including Debian and Red Hat
  • Experience troubleshooting Linux subsystems and internals
  • Ability to create scripts using Python or BASH
  • Significant experience with Ansible-based configuration management
  • Experience specifying and selecting server hardware platforms based on application requirements
  • Familiarity with virtualization hypervisors, including OpenShift KubeVirt, KVM, Nutanix, and VMware
  • Experience with monitoring and metrics gathering tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and SysStat
  • Ability to triage tickets and issues when only partial information is available
  • Experience with change management and version control, including Git and BitBucket
  • Experience with CI/CD build pipeline development
  • Experience with LDAP and Kerberos administration
  • Familiarity with centralized logging through Elasticsearch/ELK
  • Experience with DNS zone files and DNS administration
  • Experience with SAN, NAS, Ceph, and ZFS storage architectures
  • Experience managing containerized systems, including Docker, Nomad, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
  • Experience with HashiCorp products, including Consul, Nomad, and Vault
  • Familiarity with AWS and GCP cloud environments
  • Participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation is required
  • BA/BS or higher degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred

Benefits:

  • Group Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Life insurance
  • Retirement Savings Program
  • PSL
  • W2 employment
  • 40 hours/week
  • Remote work
  • 24/7 on-call rotation compensation arrangement not specified