Linux Site Reliability Consultant
August 6
Description
• Operate, maintain, and administer solutions contributing to customer infrastructure's operational efficiency, availability, and visibility. • Planning maintenance activity, design documentation, and standard procedures • Provide Root Cause Analysis reports for outages/incidents (ITIL - Problem Management) • Observe and provide feedback on the current state of the client’s infrastructure, and identify opportunities to improve resiliency, reduce incident occurrence, and automate repetitive administrative and operational tasks. • Contribute to, improve, and maintain team documentation about client systems and infrastructure, procedures, policies, and schedules. • Gather and document information about client environments through audit activities, and analyze the information to identify opportunities for improvement and application of best practices. • Work collaboratively with teammates to contribute to the continuous improvement of our working culture. • Act as a technology leader for clients, as well as drive client discussions on technology road maps. • Participate in an on-call rotation in an escalation capacity.
Requirements
• Experience working with Google and AWS Clouds (including infrastructure as code deployment with Cloud Formation, Terraform, Opsworks, etc) • Scripting and automation of administrative tasks using Python and Scala is a must • Solid understanding of microservices architecture and container technologies (Kubernetes is a must, Docker, lxc, etc) • Clear understanding of software development lifecycles and best practices from an infrastructure point of view (PRs, merge, rebase, etc) • Understanding the end-to-end operations of a ‘Business System’ vs components. • Comprehensive systems hardware and network troubleshooting experience • Common Linux distribution platform installation, configuration, performance tuning, and cloud migration. • TCP/IP networking, NIC bonding, and network services configuration (DNS, NTP, DHCP, SMTP, etc) • Operation and administration of virtual infrastructure, including experience with at least one hypervisor (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, etc.) • Ability to describe IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, pros and cons of each, use cases for virtualization and cloud • Administration of web servers and supporting technologies, including network load balancers • Experience with the design, development, and deployment of Puppet • System and application error investigation, troubleshooting of access/availability issues including deep multi-system root cause analysis • Experience managing networking devices, such as switches and firewalls from a variety of vendors • Solid understanding of DevOps tools, processes, and culture • Ability to pick up new technologies quickly • Ability to provide accurate work scheduling and task estimations for work delivery
Benefits
• Competitive total rewards package • Flexibly work remotely from your home • Collaborate with some of the best and brightest in the industry! • Hone your skills or learn new ones with our substantial training allowance • We give you all the equipment you need to work from home • Pythian cares about the health and well-being of our team
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