Senior System Administrator

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Zyte

Web crawling • Web scraping • Scraping • Scrapy • Data Science

201 - 500

💰 $3M Debt Financing on 2021-12

Description

• At Zyte, we eat data for breakfast and you can eat your breakfast anywhere and work for Zyte. • Zyte has led the way in building powerful, easy-to-use tools to collect, format, and deliver web data. • The successful candidate will also get involved in team coordination tasks. • Our infrastructure stack includes Linux, Python, Docker, Mesos/Marathon, MySQL, HBase, Kafka, Nginx, Elasticsearch, AWS, along with our own technologies, such as Scrapy.

Requirements

• 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. • Proactive Research and Development - discovering and implementing new providers, tools, emerging technology, etc. • 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. • 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. • 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.

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